Community leisure uk news
02 Oct 2025
Mark Tweedie has joined the Devon-based Plymouth Active Leisure (PAL) board as a non-executive director
30 Aug 2024
Friends from the leisure industry have been paying tribute to editor and lobbyist Jonathan Ives
25 Jul 2024
Sector leaders in the UK have collaborated to create the Physical Activity Leadership Network that
17 Jul 2024
Community Leisure UK (CLUK) and The Richmond Group of Charities have joined forces to support
02 May 2024
Consultancy and change architects, Miova, have welcomed industry veteran Mark Tweedie on board. Tweedie had
21 Apr 2024
Charitable trust, Mytime Active, has removed all single-use plastic overshoes from its swimming pools and
As healthcare continues to shift towards prevention, there’s a growing focus on helping people stay
21 Apr 2024
Community Leisure UK is helping the drive to Net Zero with the launch of a
20 Dec 2023
The UK’s most recently-formed local government body – North Yorkshire Council – is making wellbeing
08 Dec 2023
A proposed change to the way councils organise the operation of their leisure facilities – including
26 Jul 2023
Average charges for an adult swim session have topped £5.00 (US$6.45, €5.83) for the first
28 Mar 2023
Fitness industry leaders, including UK Active CEO Huw Edwards, will take to the stage at
11 Jan 2023
The UK government has announced it will be scaling back financial support for businesses as
Elevate is set to celebrate its 10th anniversary in style this June, with organisers confirming
14 Dec 2022
Sport England has released the Future of Public Sector Leisure report which looks at how
05 Aug 2022
Easton Leisure Centre in the UK has announced a 100 per cent reduction in heating
15 Jun 2022
Key organisations from the UK’s leisure industry are lobbying the government for financial support to
21 Mar 2022
Lobbying is gearing up in advance of the Spring Budget this week, with UK Active
12 Jan 2022
Mark Sesnan, co-founder and CEO of GLL, has been awarded an OBE in the New
16 Sep 2021
Members from UK leisure and cultural trusts have stepped up and logged an impressive 21.5million
Celebrating its milestone fifth anniversary, W3Fit EMEA returns in 2026 with an unmissable gathering of
07 Jul 2021
There is a "clear case" to evolve the purpose and role played by the UK's
17 Nov 2020
Leisure-net is running a repeat of its initial Post Lockdown Recovery Survey, in order to
21 Sep 2020
More than 100 sport and physical activity bodies have sent a letter to UK Prime
09 Sep 2020
A new training initiative is aiming to 'retool the physical activity workforce' to help businesses
27 Aug 2020
Over 22,000 jobs are at risk across the UK's public leisure sector, out of a
11 Aug 2020
Health clubs, gyms, indoor pools and leisure centres have reopened in Wales – nearly five
09 Aug 2020
A significant proportion of leisure facilities in England have not reopened since lockdown measures were
27 Jul 2020
Health clubs, swimming pools, leisure centres and other indoor sports facilities have reopened to the
22 Jul 2020
The UK's industry's leading trade associations have united to call for a major review of
30 Jun 2020
Almost half of all public health and fitness, leisure and community facilities in the UK,
08 Jun 2020
Ever since the UK's leisure facilities were closed on "lockdown day" – 20 March –
03 Jun 2020
Mark Tweedie has been named as the new CEO of Community Leisure UK (CLUK), the
05 May 2020
Local authorities have been told to consider deferring rents and offering interest-free loans to leisure
09 Apr 2020
A new digital hub has been set up to help individuals and businesses in the
27 Mar 2020
Physical activity sector bodies have welcomed the government's measures to help the UK's self-employed workers
26 Mar 2020
Leading organisations in the physical activity sector have urged chancellor Rishi Sunak to provide urgent
20 Mar 2020
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has ordered all UK gyms, health clubs, leisure centres and restaurants
18 Mar 2020
Leading trade bodies representing the physical activity sector have called on the government to introduce
23 May 2019
Gwynedd Council in north Wales has set up a new company to operate leisure facilities
04 May 2019
Procurement practices are driving a race to the bottom in the delivery of public leisure
22 Feb 2019
The first ever Community Leisure UK Awards will be held at The Lowry hotel in
14 Jan 2019
A campaign has been launched to raise awareness of the way leisure trusts operate –
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Third Space partnered with IndigoFitness to deliver a
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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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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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EGYM has opened a new HQ in Paternoster Square,
London and revealed a range of new launches
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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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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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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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Raphael Cuomo explores the
powerful link between addiction,
health and behaviour change
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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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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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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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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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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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New insight from Deloitte and Grant Thornton shows record growth, but the real shift is towards identity and perceived value, revealing opportunities to deepen engagement with members
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Designing multi-functional
spaces can lead to
fewer bottlenecks at
peak times. Julie Cramer
investigates the latest kit
and inspiring installations
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