PureGym saw revenues rise by 15 per cent in 2023, with the company announcing plans to develop 200 new clubs in the next three to four years.

Community Leisure UK is helping the public sector’s drive to net zero with the launch of a bespoke Carbon Literacy course.

UK Active has launched a programme designed to support the physical activity sector as it targets Net Zero.

The Gym Group has become the first fitness operator in the world to have its Net-Zero targets validated by the Science Based Targets initiative.

While critical for business success, the challenges of ESG can be overwhelming. Operators tell us how they’re tackling it

The EU is introducing laws to tax imports, with extra penalties for goods and materials from countries with lax eco standards. HCM’s panel explains

Challenging trading conditions look set to give public sector leisure provision a shake up. Martyn Allison looks back at how trying times have impacted the public sector previously and talks us through the way things could pan out as councils rethink their priorities and sport and leisure pivots towards health and wellbeing.

Ten years after the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, the London Legacy Development Corporation (LLDC) is awarding new operating contracts for the London Aquatics Centre and Copper Box Arena.

We hear from DLL’s Russell Barnes, Andrew Power from Swim England and GLL’s Gareth Kirk

Saving money and the planet are huge incentives to decarbonise. Kath Hudson asks the experts about the practicalities

The sector is at a crossroads due to soaring energy prices. In this major case study, HCM looks at St Sidwell’s Point, Exeter – the first Passivhaus leisure centre – and talks to the team behind the project about achieving a transformational 70 per cent reduction in energy usage

A conference held in London this month will discuss the "next frontier" in health- and wellness-based urban design and civic architecture.

UK Active and the Churchill Fellowship – the operating name of the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust – are searching for innovative exercise-inspired projects that could transform people’s mental and physical health.

David Minton shares his take on the major health challenges facing the US and how the fitness industry can step up to deliver solutions

David Minton argues that planetary health and our personal health are inextricably linked. As we move forward in the build-back, we shouldn’t look to return to the status quo, but should use the same creativity and tenacity shown in the lockdowns to tackle climate change and inactivity

How can organisations, including health club and leisure businesses, decarbonise, generate clean energy and harness attitudes of 'energy sobriety' to reduce CO2 emissions? These are some of the issues to be discussed at this year’s European Energy Transition Conference.

As we celebrate the publication of the 300th edition of HCM, we invite industry experts to give their insights on the health and fitness sector: why they joined, the most exciting development to date, and what they think we’ll be reporting on in the next 300 issues

Consumers’ growing interest in exercise, health and wellness have been highlighted by changes to the UK government’s inflationary measures, with sportswear and healthy food in the ascendance and participation in exercise and activity making its first-ever appearance.

The health, fitness and activity sector is ramping up its sustainability drive to net-zero with the launch of a new alliance called the Sport Environment and Climate Coalition (SECC).

Pete Wells explains industry representation at COP26 and James Foley on lowering carbon emissions and saving cash and planet

A one-day conference will look to provide a platform for debating how the global health and fitness industry can help tackle climate change.

As the world grapples with climate change and prepares for COP26 in Glasgow, David Minton says it’s time for the fitness industry to step up and make its own contribution to saving the planet

A parliamentary report is calling for a £3bn intervention fund to build back better health as we come out of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Bicycle Mayor of Coventry talks about bikes and public health challenges

Research carried out by Leisure-net shows that fitness operators could be missing out on a lucrative revenue stream, if they fail to engage with Gen Z – the generation of young people currently "coming of age".

Members of Gen Z have come of age and are now some of the most engaged consumers of fitness. Researchers, leisure-net, look at the numbers

The co-founder of Bridges Fund Management, which has backed The Gym Group, Planet Fitness and Fitness Hut tells Kate Cracknell every business needs to think about social impact

Children in developed countries are not moving enough to maintain healthy growth and development – according to a report by the Active Healthy Kids Global Alliance (AHKGA).

Golden 1 Centre, the new home of the NBA’s Sacramento Kings basketball team, has been awarded a LEED Platinum certificate.

Life Fitness is playing its part in the space race, having equipped a brand new corporate gym at the European Space Agency’s (ESA) first UK centre in Didcot.