After the Pepper of the Year award was presented at the Sports Gala earlier this week, it is hoped that even more people will want to borrow sports equipment. In Norrköping, operations started in 2017.

- Now we may get more borrowers. We hope so, says Hassan Hanna Deeb, who is the project manager at the organization's office in the district of Klockaretorpet in Norrköping.

In our area there are Leisure Banks in Visby, Klintehamn and Norrköping. The first lending station was started in Deje in Värmland 13 years ago.

For everyone

Anyone can come to one of the banks and borrow equipment. The idea is that anyone who wants to try a sport should not have to buy expensive equipment themselves.

For obvious reasons, skiing has not been so in demand in our part of the country this season, while skating is still popular. Sometimes private individuals come in and borrow, sometimes an entire school class will have a sports day. In the slightly snowier parts of Sweden, it is also popular to borrow skiing for a ski vacation north. With the loan period being 14 days it is fully possible.