A HUSBAND and wife team have created 35 jobs at a new state-of-the-art trampoline and soft play centre.

Michael and Debbie Fitzpatrick believe their new venture in Liversedge, Adrenaline International, is the largest centre of its kind in Yorkshire.

The couple were inspired to launch the £1million centre after their own experience of attending ‘tired’ soft play parties when their own children were young.

The new entrepreneurs are expecting a daily footfall at their new centre of 700 this summer.

Based on Halifax Road, Liversedge, the new centre features 140 connected trampolines, a giant air-bag, basketball slam-dunk courts, children’s party rooms and an in-house café.

Michael and Debbie Fitzpatrick poured their savings and investments into the project, which included an overhaul of a 40,000 sq ft former warehouse.

A loan from Bradford-based business lender, the Business Enterprise Fund, enabled the site to become one of the first in the UK to use Prismatic trampolines; an interactive light feature for use in games and aerobics classes.

Debbie said: “We’d spent so long researching and planning our dream business, that we knew it needed to jump out.

“The Prismatic feature is the perfect finishing touch and we wouldn’t have it without BEF’s support.

“Mainstream lenders were unable to help us due to the lack of track record in this type of business, so we were over the moon when John Hall and the team at BEF were able to support us with a £30,000 loan.”

BEF, which has offices in Bradford, Leeds, York and Darlington, provides new and growing businesses with loans of up to £150,000 and is an official delivery partner of the Government’s Start Up Loans scheme offering loans up to £25,000.

Stephen Waud, BEF chief executive, said: “We were delighted to support Adrenaline International to help achieve Debbie and Michael’s business goals.

“It’s fantastic to see a different concept bouncing into the Yorkshire area aimed at everyone from toddlers and teenagers, to anyone interested in fitness.

“As a social enterprise, it’s important to us to support unique businesses and creative entrepreneurs, and mainstream lenders are often unable to lend their support here.”

BEF recently revealed that more than half its loans went to start-up companies over the past 12 months for the first time in its 11-year history - helping nearly 200 new businesses and 160 existing SMEs.