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25 Jul 2024
Sector leaders in the UK have collaborated to create the Physical Activity Leadership Network that
16 Jul 2024
Gymbox has partnered with Haringey Council and not-for-profit organisation, Raza Sana, to give opportunities to
19 Jun 2024
With the UK General Election imminent, industry strategist, Martyn Allison, says it’s time for the
30 May 2024
In the latest edition of HCM magazine, Mark Tweedie talks about his hopes for the
02 May 2024
Active Oxfordshire has received £1.3 million to tackle inactivity and inequality and launch a new
16 Apr 2024
Social enterprise, Places Leisure, which is part of the Places for People Group, has appointed
The BLK BOX team is thrilled to unveil its design and construction work on the
13 Mar 2024
Edinburgh Leisure has appointed Jen Holland as chief executive. She will take over from June
11 Mar 2024
The UK government acknowledged in its recent budget that economic recovery depends on the health
09 Jan 2024
Solving the UK's social care problem is the key to overcoming the financial challenges facing
08 Dec 2023
A proposed change to the way councils organise the operation of their leisure facilities – including
18 May 2023
Councils in the UK will benefit from hundreds of thousands of pounds of extra revenue
15 Mar 2023
In an announcement made today in advance of tomorrow's Spring Budget (15 March), the UK
23 Feb 2023
The government’s energy relief for swimming pools, leisure centres and gyms is scheduled to end
10 Jan 2023
A report issued by the UK Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has accused Sport England
21 Dec 2022
Mark Sesnan, co-founder and CEO of GLL (Greenwich Leisure Limited), has announced that he will
24 Nov 2022
A number of UK local authorities and their leisure management partners are in crisis due
09 Aug 2022
Mark Sesnan, CEO of GLL, has pushed back on Tower Hamlet Council’s decision to take
05 Aug 2022
Easton Leisure Centre in the UK has announced a 100 per cent reduction in heating
26 Jul 2022
Planning permission has been granted for a new 60-metre floating wellness barge in London, designed
15 Jun 2022
Key organisations from the UK’s leisure industry are lobbying the government for financial support to
01 Jun 2022
Power Plate has been shortlisted for the “Developing & Supporting Communities following on from Covid-19”
21 May 2022
Go Fit has been selected by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) as
03 Dec 2021
As global leaders meet for the COP26 climate summit, local authorities across England are partnering
26 Oct 2021
The Local Government Association (LGA) has called on the UK government to invest £875m in
21 Oct 2021
GLL and its app partner Innovatise (myFitApp) have today announced the Better UK App has
13 Oct 2021
Tanni Grey-Thompson has outlined her vision on how the physical activity sector can play "the
20 Aug 2021
Parkwood Leisure – one of the UK’s leading leisure operators – is offering free access
17 Aug 2021
The UK government is to invest £338m in transforming active travel through infrastructure upgrades, changes
18 May 2021
One in three councils in England are expecting to close at least one of their
05 Mar 2021
The UK government is exploring whether incentivising people financially to take part in physical activity
11 Nov 2020
The government has been forced to make a U-turn and to spend more than £400m
23 Oct 2020
Mid Ulster District Council (MUDC) in Northern Ireland has won a landmark VAT case, which
22 Oct 2020
The government has pledged to invest £100m in supporting public leisure centres this winter, as
30 Jun 2020
Almost half of all public health and fitness, leisure and community facilities in the UK,
16 Jun 2020
The fitness industry's pivot to digital has defined the sector's response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
11 May 2020
The government's pledge to invest £2bn in improving the UK's cycling and walking infrastructure has
08 May 2020
Leisure centre operators are facing crisis point without access to emergency government funding or support,
05 May 2020
Local authorities have been told to consider deferring rents and offering interest-free loans to leisure
23 Apr 2020
Plans have been revealed for a four-stage strategy to reopen the UK's physical activity sector,
20 Apr 2020
Leisure operator GLL has partnered with digital fitness expert Wexer to launch an ‘any time,
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Sustainability in the fitness industry is coming on in leaps and bounds as more
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A new study has found major differences in the way males and females utilise fat during exercise, as Kath Hudson reports
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As the UK healthcare sector struggles with ever-increasing demand, health club operators are stepping in and offering members welcome medical support. Kath Hudson reports
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Indoor bikes may remain stationary, but the discipline is in constant motion.
Innovators tell Steph Eaves how they’re keeping pace with the latest trends
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Disappointment about being
passed over for promotion
gave Neil Randall, the resilience
he needed to climb the ranks.
He talks to Kath Hudson about
the challenges he faced early
in his career and the skills
he learned from them
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“I'm pleased to say we’re having our best year ever in 2024. Everyone’s smiling”
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The Maybourne Group has unveiled its all-new London
hotel The Emory. Megan Whitby goes behind the scenes
at Surrenne, its cutting-edge health and wellness club
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Dr Matthew Wade and Georgie
Poole talk us through research
from UK Active and Savanta that
gives a deeper understanding of
what motivates consumers
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Weight loss drugs are altering consumer behaviour, disrupting sectors from food retailing (smaller portions) to apparel (less fabric needed). We need to move fast to align with this new reality
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Dr Tim Anstiss is developing coachbots that are supporting positive
behaviour change for operators such as Life Leisure and KA Leisure
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