04/09/2026
We're not a gym chain. We're a community interest company.
No rows of machines with nobody to show you how to use them. No staff who never learn your name. No profit leaving the city.
Every session here is coached. We know every member. And every pound stays in Southwick: in the equipment, the coaching, and the free places we give to young people who'd never otherwise get them.
That's the whole point of the club.
📍 The Kings Road, Southwick, Sunderland SR5 2JD
💬 Come and have a look. No pressure, no sales pitch
Book your session: https://weightsandcakes.vercel.app/join.html
04/09/2026
Five British Masters titles. Two European Masters titles. Fourth at the World Championships.
And she coaches the adult sessions herself.
Zoe came to weightlifting later in life, as her own pursuit of strength, then built Weights & Cakes so other people could have the same thing. Whether you want to compete one day or just learn to lift well and not hurt yourself, you're learning from someone who has actually done it.
🗓 Adults Weightlifting, Tuesday & Thursday, 6–7pm
📍 Southwick, Sunderland SR5 2JD
💬 Message us to get started
Book your session: https://weightsandcakes.vercel.app/join.html
03/09/2026
Never picked up a weight? Perfect. That's exactly who this is for.
S.A.S.S stands for Strong Ass Strength Squad. It's a strongman-inspired session
built for every level of fitness. Fully inclusive. It genuinely does not matter where you're starting from, and nobody in that room is looking at you.
Most people who walk in nervous end up staying.
🗓 Monday & Wednesday 6.30pm · Saturday 8.30am
📍 The Kings Road, Southwick, Sunderland SR5 2JD
💬 Try it free before you decide anything
Book your session: https://weightsandcakes.vercel.app/join.html
03/09/2026
Somewhere to belong after school.
Teenagers need somewhere that isn't school and isn't their bedroom. Somewhere
they're not being marked, ranked or judged.
Our teens sessions teach them to lift properly and get genuinely strong. And the
confidence that comes with that tends to follow them out of the door.
🗓 Tuesday & Thursday 5pm · Saturday 11am
📍 Southwick, Sunderland SR5 2JD
💬 Free taster. Message us and we'll get them booked in
Book your session: https://weightsandcakes.vercel.app/join.html
02/09/2026
An hour off the screen.
Kids Fitness is an hour of moving, playing and actually enjoying it, in a club
where no child is the last one picked and nobody has to be sporty to belong.
All abilities. No experience needed. They just turn up.
🗓 Monday & Wednesday, 4–5pm
📍 The Kings Road, Southwick, Sunderland SR5 2JD
💬 Message us to book their first session
Book your session: https://weightsandcakes.vercel.app/join.html
02/09/2026
"Is lifting safe for my kid?"
It's the question we get asked more than any other, and it deserves a straight
answer: yes, when it's taught properly.
Our youth sessions are coached by qualified, licensed British Weight Lifting
coaches, at Sunderland's only BWL accredited talent academy. Nobody gets handed aheavy bar on day one. Technique comes first, every single time, and there's a
coach watching the whole session.
🗓 Under 12s, Tuesday & Thursday 4pm, Saturday 10am
📍 Southwick, Sunderland SR5 2JD
💬 Got a question before you book? Just ask us. We'd rather you asked.
Book your session: https://weightsandcakes.vercel.app/join.html
01/09/2026
Strength doesn't retire.
There's a myth that lifting weights is for the young. It isn't. Past 55, keeping your strength is what keeps you carrying your own shopping, getting up the stairs without thinking about it, and picking up the grandkids.
Our Over 55's session is coached from start to finish. You're not left to work out a machine on your own, and you're not in a room full of twenty-year-olds.
🗓 Tuesday & Thursday, 10.30am
📍 The Kings Road, Southwick, Sunderland SR5 2JD
💬 First session is free. Message us and we'll sort you a spot
Booking link: https://weightsandcakes.vercel.app/
02/09/2026
01/09/2026