Active Nation news
11 Jun 2025
Energy costs have pushed Active Nation into liquidation, despite the charity reporting the strongest trading
04 Jun 2025
The National Sector Partners Group (NSPG) has written to the Prime Minister ahead of the
31 Oct 2024
Chanchellor, Rachel Reeves, talked about fixing the NHS and rebuilding Britain in the budget, but
09 Jul 2024
The UK's National Sector Partners Group (NSP) has called on the new government to pledge
15 Jun 2024
More than 200 organisations and athletes in the UK have signed an open letter to
09 Oct 2023
A survey of UK adults by market research outfit Savanta has identified the nation’s dream
Active Blackpool is deploying Cornerstone Connect, a new digital interface allowing disparate information from multiple
04 Oct 2023
The UK is at the bottom of the pile when it comes to investing in
21 Sep 2023
Improved mental health is now a stronger motivation for Brits to exercise than staying in
23 Feb 2023
The government’s energy relief for swimming pools, leisure centres and gyms is scheduled to end
07 Sep 2022
Active Nation has released a new app, Active Nation Anywhere, which offers over a thousand
14 Jul 2022
UKRI (UK Research and Innovation) is backing research to investigate the lack of older adults
04 Aug 2021
Paralympic champion and ukactive chair Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson has issued a rallying cry for the
As healthcare continues to shift towards prevention, there’s a growing focus on helping people stay
09 Dec 2020
The House of Lords' National Plan for Sport and Recreation committee has invited sporting organisations
30 Nov 2020
Professor Chris Whitty, the chief medical officer for England, has said exercise and physical activity
25 Nov 2020
Up to 100k people will benefit from the free gym and physical activity sessions, thanks
11 Nov 2020
Andy Burnham and shadow culture secretary Jo Stevens have joined Paralympic legend Tanni Grey-Thompson in
04 Nov 2020
Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, has been confirmed as a keynote speaker for the
02 Nov 2020
Professor Chris Whitty, Chief Medical Officer for England will address the physical activity sector at
One of the biggest mistakes operators in the fitness industry still make is advertising almost
27 Feb 2020
CIMSPA and UK Coaching have signed a deal to combine the Register of Exercise Professionals
07 Feb 2020
Ukactive has called on HM Treasury to invest more in the physical activity sector, in
03 Feb 2020
Physical activity body ukactive is launching a new programme of regional events, aimed at providing
09 Dec 2019
Representatives from the three main political parties have backed the view that physical activity has
21 Nov 2019
The Sport and Recreation Alliance and ukactive will host sport and physical activity hustings with
14 Nov 2019
Disability sports charity Activity Alliance has called on political parties to commit to giving disabled
31 Oct 2019
The physical activity sector has called for the UK's party leaders to commit to improving
23 Oct 2019
Latest figures from Swim England show that 14.2 million adults – 31 per cent of
17 Oct 2019
The number of UK adults classed as physically active has increased by 1 million in
30 Sep 2019
Two new synthetic grass football pitches have opened in Lincoln as part of a £1.8m
17 Sep 2019
The UK fitness industry should make a concerted effort to highlight the importance of strength
07 Sep 2019
The Chief Medical Officer (CMO) has said that "even a few minutes of exercise is
24 Aug 2019
Former Cabinet Secretary Lord Gus O’Donnell and professor Helen Stokes-Lampard, the chair of the Royal
13 Aug 2019
Leisure trust Active Nation has expanded its portfolio of budget gyms with the acquisition of
05 Aug 2019
This year's ukactive National Summit will explore plans to shape the future of public health,
30 Jul 2019
The ukactive board has named Huw Edwards as the not-for-profit body's permanent chief executive. Edwards,
22 Jul 2019
A new interactive map charting physical activity among children in England reveals that more than
06 Jun 2019
A new leadership learning initiative aims to transform knowledge sharing in the physical activity sector.
04 Jun 2019
Leisure trust Active Nation has acquired the former Fit4Less gym in Preston, Lancashire, bringing the
17 May 2019
Sportscotland has unveiled its new corporate strategy, setting out its approach to delivering an active
02 May 2019
Every £1 invested in sport in Wales creates a return of £2.88, according to a
30 Apr 2019
Sport England CEO Tim Hollingsworth has called on sport and physical activity providers to follow
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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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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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SnowDome Fitness has added 50 per cent more space with cutting-edge Technogym solutions
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Starpool supports Olympic champion Marcell Jacobs, says Riccardo Turri
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Find out how your gym can tap into the corporate wellness boom
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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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EGYM has opened a new HQ in Paternoster Square,
London and revealed a range of new launches
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BLK BOX has been reimagining elite performance
spaces for more than a decade. Founder and
former athlete, Greg Bradley, tells us what it takes
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Performance Health Systems, manufacturer of Power Plate,
has a new CEO, with an ambitious vision for the company
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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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Stephen Price
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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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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Jamie Clements
The Breath Coach“I experienced a blissful feeling of joy I hadn’t felt since I was a kid”
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Raphael Cuomo explores the
powerful link between addiction,
health and behaviour change
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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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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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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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Julie Cramer highlights
recent health club flooring
upgrades, as top suppliers
give their advice
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Record market penetration in the UK
fitness sector masks a deeper shift
around consumer engagement, according
to a report from Grant Thornton and
UK Active, as Liz Terry reports
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“Strength training has moved from the margins to the mainstream.”
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Active Blackpool is deploying Cornerstone Connect, a new digital interface allowing
disparate information from multiple systems to be aggregated into one dataset, to support
its focus on reducing health inequalities and improving healthy life expectancy.
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