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04 Dec 2025
Sport England has released the latest Active Lives Children & Young People Report for the
05 Dec 2024
Sport England’s Active Lives Children and Young People Survey for the academic year 2023-2024 has
Long known for its fancy casinos, Macau realized within the past decade that it must
12 Dec 2022
Children’s and young people’s activity levels are back to pre-pandemic levels, confirms Sport England in
16 Nov 2022
UK Active and Nike have released an impact report for the 2022 Open Doors programme,
23 Jul 2020
A new family fitness focused operator is preparing to open its first site in Putney,
As healthcare continues to shift towards prevention, there’s a growing focus on helping people stay
05 Dec 2019
Almost half of children and young people (46.8 per cent) in England are doing the
22 Nov 2019
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned that the majority of adolescents worldwide are not
13 Sep 2019
A regional active play scheme targeting two to four-year-olds has been credited with providing a
07 Sep 2019
The Chief Medical Officer (CMO) has said that "even a few minutes of exercise is
21 Aug 2019
Work has begun on a £20.8m leisure centre in Pontefract in West Yorkshire. The Five
25 Feb 2019
Disney has announced details of its plan to transform the Epcot theme park at Walt
One of the biggest mistakes operators in the fitness industry still make is advertising almost
07 Nov 2018
At this year’s IAAPA Attractions Expo, iPlayCo and FEC Builders, global designers and manufacturers of
19 Sep 2018
More than £346m in "wasted" childcare funding should be used to get children more active
28 Jun 2018
Weber Group, a design and construction company specialising in the attractions sector, has expanded its
05 Dec 2017
Decommissioned Navy equipment could soon be used to create a family-friendly centre dedicated to maritime
24 Nov 2017
Eureka!, the popular children’s museum in Halifax, Yorkshire, is on track for its busiest year
18 Oct 2017
Primary schools across the country will see PE and sport funding doubled this month in
CoverMe, the global leader in fitness workforce management, today launches CoverMe PT, an on-demand personal
27 Sep 2017
Explora is an innovative range of interactive play splash pads that are designed to engage
18 Sep 2017
The Titanic spa in Leeds, Yorkshire, UK has opened a new interactive 'Play Station’ where
17 Jul 2017
Alton Towers has extended its relationship with the BBC following the launch of its new
08 Feb 2017
Disney-themed attractions are due to pop up at London's Westfield shopping centres, with a number
01 Feb 2017
Plans for a £15m (US$18.9m, €17.5m) waterpark in Rhyl, Wales, have been given the go-ahead
13 Oct 2016
Empex Watertoys and Myrtha Pools have teamed up to create a new splash park at
08 Sep 2016
Polin Waterparks has supplied the waterpark for huge new Land of Legends theme park in
05 Aug 2016
The New York-based Aquatic Development Group (ADG) has started work on a US$45m (€40.3m, £34.2m)
27 Jul 2016
Alton Towers has ramped up its strategy to become the UK’s leading short-break destination with
11 Jul 2016
Badminton England has lost 10 per cent of its Sport England funding after failing to
19 Apr 2016
A new Sport-England funded programme has engaged more than 15,000 school children in regular activity
21 Mar 2016
Amsterdam’s Science Centre NEMO is preparing to debut its rooftop Energetica exhibition, turning the space
09 Nov 2015
Climbing, skating and active play facilities have been added to the new-look Howe Bridge Leisure
07 Oct 2015
Beatrix Potter’s classic children’s character Peter Rabbit is getting his own adventure play area after
20 May 2015
Merlin Entertainments has continued its policy to turn its major attractions into multi-day features by
24 Apr 2015
The final round of a Commonwealth Games legacy grants programme will see 34 Scottish community
17 Apr 2015
WhiteWater Attractions has supplied three interactive play zones as part of a new themed area
29 Sep 2014
Empex Watertoys has supplied water park equipment at the newly refurbished and redesigned Cronwell Platamon
13 Aug 2014
Australian Waterslides & Leisure has completed a KIPS (Kids Interactive Play Structure) installation at Turtle
20 May 2014
Legoland California is continuing expansion plans with the opening of a new attraction – the
12 May 2014
US-based educational entertainment developer LeapFrog has unveiled one of the first wearable activity trackers designed
16 Dec 2013
As part of its the Dream Day Out campaign designed to promote family days out
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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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Starpool supports Olympic champion Marcell Jacobs, says Riccardo Turri
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SnowDome Fitness has added 50 per cent more space with cutting-edge Technogym solutions
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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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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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Pulse Fitness has created a
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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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Jamie Clements
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“I experienced a blissful feeling of joy I hadn’t felt since I was a kid”
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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