Active Communities news
26 Mar 2026
Better colleagues, customers and councillors from the London Borough of Richmond came together yesterday for
18 Dec 2025
Sport England’s continuous improvement tool, Quest, is being updated for 2026 with two new products
27 Nov 2025
Sport England has announced 27 new partnerships that will benefit from its place-based approach, which
03 Nov 2025
Plans for a £40 million investment to promote healthy and active communities across North Yorkshire,
20 Aug 2025
The finalists of the UK Active Awards 2025 have been announced today (19 August) following
14 Jul 2025
A £24 million modernisation programme will get underway in Wandsworth, London as Places Leisure wins
Celebrating its milestone fifth anniversary, W3Fit EMEA returns in 2026 with an unmissable gathering of
28 Nov 2024
Strength training app, Ladder, has secured more than US$100 million investment to support new growth
27 Sep 2024
Edinburgh Leisure has launched its first impact report since 2015, which shows progress in the
04 Jul 2024
Edinburgh Leisure is launching a six-week introduction to Nordic walking as part of its award-winning
27 Jun 2024
F45 Training has become the first health and fitness operator to make its functional/HIIT group
13 Mar 2024
Edinburgh Leisure has appointed Jen Holland as chief executive. She will take over from June
14 Dec 2022
Sport England has released the Future of Public Sector Leisure report which looks at how
One of the biggest mistakes operators in the fitness industry still make is advertising almost
02 Sep 2022
St Albans City and District Council has signed a ten-year deal with Sport and Leisure
New UK Active membership council revealed – Dave Courteen to chair and also join the UK Active board
17 Feb 2022
Industry body, UK Active, has revealed a new council to represent the voice of members
07 Jul 2021
There is a "clear case" to evolve the purpose and role played by the UK's
29 Jun 2020
Almost 60 per cent of UK parents plan to resume their children’s swimming lessons –
07 Feb 2020
Ukactive has called on HM Treasury to invest more in the physical activity sector, in
06 Feb 2020
Sport England has revealed the 16 projects which will share £1m worth of funding from
Elevate is set to celebrate its 10th anniversary in style this June, with organisers confirming
04 Jun 2019
Leisure trust Active Nation has acquired the former Fit4Less gym in Preston, Lancashire, bringing the
25 Sep 2018
The Sport and Recreation Alliance (SRA) has launched a petition calling on politicians of all
17 Sep 2018
The partnership between Stages and the
27 Jun 2018
University of Warwick will open a multi-million sport and wellness hub in early 2019. The
13 Feb 2018
A new four-day “celebration of physical activity” – combining a conference, awards night and a
05 Dec 2017
Twelve areas across England will take part in a groundbreaking pilot to reach physically inactive
20 Nov 2017
The University of Warwick is building a £49m (US$64.6m, €54.9m) sports and wellness hub in
03 Oct 2017
Lawrence Dallaglio will lead a speaker line-up from the worlds of sport, health and government
06 Sep 2017
A health programme that prescribes exercise as medicine has helped more than 1,700 patients in
03 May 2017
The workforce in the sport sector will need to become more adaptable and flexible if
01 Jun 2016
Sport Wales has devised a three-point plan with a focus on education and awareness to
01 Oct 2014
ukactive CEO David Stalker has said that now is the time for the physical activity
09 May 2014
Sport Northern Ireland has launched a new £4m funding programme aimed at increasing membership numbers
25 Oct 2011
Councillors have agreed the future use of two sites in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, which are currently
04 May 2011
London mayor Boris Johnson has announced the launch of a new "one-stop-shop" project to ensure
11 Mar 2011
Derbyshire County Cricket Club (DCCC) has announced that it has secured a new five-year deal
03 Feb 2011
Northern Ireland sports minister Nelson McCausland has attended the launch of a new National Lottery-funded
06 Dec 2010
London mayor Boris Johnson has confirmed the 18 sports across the capital to receive a
04 Nov 2010
A new £1.2m scheme has been unveiled by Down District Council (DDC) and Newry and
27 Sep 2010
Plans to replace the safety surfacing at play areas in Swanscombe and Greenhithe, Kent, have
10 Sep 2010
Construction work has started on a new £12m health and wellbeing centre in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire,
02 Sep 2010
Tennis courts at Queen's Park Annexe in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, have reopened after a £20,000 revamp.
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Starpool supports Olympic champion Marcell Jacobs, says Riccardo Turri
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Greg Bradley looks at the shift towards strength training in gyms and advises on how operators can create the ultimate training environment
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David Lloyd is stepping up its commitment to women’s health as it continues to explore what fit-for-purpose looks like for the female population
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Third Space partnered with IndigoFitness to deliver a
bespoke training space for its new club at The Whiteley
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EGYM has opened a new HQ in Paternoster Square,
London and revealed a range of new launches
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The industry is embracing consumer-facing tech. Now it’s time to
streamline back-of-house systems with Orbit4, says Daniel Jones
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Active IQ is calling for greater accountability in online fitness advice with the launch of a new trustmark
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Small improvements to sleep, diet and physical activity have major benefits for the heart, according to new research from the University of Sydney
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Strength training is evolving,
driven by changing consumer
preferences. Julie Cramer talks
to innovators about how their
products are meeting this demand
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For every member with a tripod and a big following, there are others irritated at the way equipment is being hogged or wary they’ll be in the background on someone’s Insta feed. Do influencers offer valuable, free marketing or are they just a nuisance? Kath Hudson finds out how operators are responding
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As the entrepreneur who started Wexer, Fresh Fitness, Fitness DK and Repeat, as well as being a former elite athlete, Rasmus Ingerslev’s life looked perfect from the outside, but onthe inside it was a different story. He talks to Kath Hudson about healing old wounds
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Raphael Cuomo explores the
powerful link between addiction,
health and behaviour change
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Founder, SP&Co Group“Working in public health over the last few years has lit up parts of my brain again”
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The Breath Coach“I experienced a blissful feeling of joy I hadn’t felt since I was a kid”
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Collaborations with the medical profession and greater aspirations around wellbeing are creating a need for more experts in our sector. It’s time to reboot our thinking around the workforce
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If the health service is to
survive, we must recognise
that it is a disease service
– and that wellbeing rests with
us, says the activity advocate
and healthy ageing champion.
He talks to Kate Cracknell
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UK market penetration has risen to 18 per cent – one of the highest
globally, yet with 100 per cent of people seeing benefits when they
exercise, how high could it go? Kath Hudson asks the experts…
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Vicci Wells shares insights from the
recent Class of 2035 report into
physical activity in Generation Alpha
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As healthcare continues to shift towards prevention, there’s a growing focus on helping
people stay active, independent and feeling good for longer.
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Elevate is set to celebrate its 10th anniversary in style this June, with organisers
confirming the event’s largest-ever drinks reception as registrations continue to run more
than 10% ahead of last year.
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