Leisure centre news
23 Jun 2026
After some delays, work on Newcastle’s £28.9 million wellness centre at West Denton is underway
22 Jun 2026
Good Boost’s digital exercise programmes are helping adults with MSK at a lower cost than
19 Jun 2026
Celebrating its 10th anniversary, Elevate has had its busiest show to date, with almost 200
16 Jun 2026
Freedom Leisure and Ebbsfleet Garden City Trust have opened the £13 million Weldon Wellbeing Pavilion
05 Jun 2026
Shocked by the UK loneliness statistics, charitable trust Mytime Active has been doubling down on
21 May 2026
UK Active has published new guidance on defibrillators to help fitness and leisure operators deliver
CoverMe, the global leader in fitness workforce management, today launches CoverMe PT, an on-demand personal
15 May 2026
Brio Northgate – formerly Northgate Arena in Chester – has officially reopened following
03 May 2026
Activity levels are still rising among English adults according to Sport England’s new Active Lives
13 Apr 2026
The fourth Hello GoodLife Health & Wellbeing Hub has opened in Ireland to meet increasing
10 Apr 2026
After celebrating its 25th anniversary last year, Fusion Lifestyle has called in administrators after a
09 Apr 2026
The newly published The UK Health & Fitness Market Report 2026 shows penetration has reached
07 Apr 2026
Manchester City Council has launched an ambitious programme to offer free gym memberships and access
As healthcare continues to shift towards prevention, there’s a growing focus on helping people stay
26 Mar 2026
Better colleagues, customers and councillors from the London Borough of Richmond came together yesterday for
20 Mar 2026
Places Leisure has announced a new strategic partnership with COPA as the preferred apprenticeship delivery
19 Mar 2026
KA Leisure is investing more than £1.2 million in a major capital improvement programme across
Across the UK, local authorities are facing the same challenge: ageing leisure facilities, restrictive layouts
10 Mar 2026
Trafford Leisure has launched a 12-month pilot of Hydrohex – the Finnish virtual aqua fitness
09 Mar 2026
UK Active and This Girl Can have published a new guide to help fitness and
One of the biggest mistakes operators in the fitness industry still make is advertising almost
12 Feb 2026
Wave Active has opened a new suite designed to support older adults and people living
11 Feb 2026
Bolton Middlebrook Leisure Trust has scooped the contract to run five leisure sites as an
05 Feb 2026
A report from UK Active and Les Mills has found that 43 per cent of
05 Feb 2026
Caerphilly County Borough Council has lowered the age limit for resistance training to 14 in
29 Jan 2026
Work has started on the £68.7 million refurbishment of the historic Kings Hall Leisure Centre
28 Jan 2026
Sector representative body, UK Active, has expressed frustration that the UK government has overlooked the
28 Jan 2026
Pendle Leisure Trust, working in partnership with Pendle Borough Council, will open the landmark project,
26 Jan 2026
Places Leisure has opened Epping Leisure Centre. Undertaken in partnership with Epping Forest District Council
19 Jan 2026
The World Health Organization (WHO) has released two global reports calling on governments around the
09 Jan 2026
Following protests from the hospitality industry UK chancellor, Rachel Reeves, is looking set to make
01 Jan 2026
Woolwich Waves leisure centre opened its doors on 1 January 2026, replacing the former Waterfront
15 Dec 2025
Be Well Wigan Council has introduced a new evidence-based, healthy ageing programme that aligns with
04 Dec 2025
Sport England has released the latest Active Lives Children & Young People Report for the
14 Nov 2025
UK Active has published new guidance designed to help operators support young people over the
13 Nov 2025
According to the latest Moving Communities Impact Report visits to leisure centres are rising and
04 Nov 2025
Parkwood Leisure has launched a 12-week pilot programme designed to support individuals transitioning from medication-led
31 Oct 2025
Everyone Active, Sarah Watts and Sandwell Leisure Trust were among those to be honoured at
23 Oct 2025
Physiologist and co-founder of Future Practice and Pillar Wellbeing, Oli Patrick opened the HCM Summit
16 Oct 2025
Work is underway on a £19.7 million waterfront leisure centre in Newport, which will be
16 Oct 2025
A new nationwide training initiative is equipping thousands of UK swimming coaches with the skills
15 Oct 2025
Across Europe there are encouraging signs that governments are waking up to the value of
08 Oct 2025
European operator, Go Fit has announced record profits and the investment of €150 million in
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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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Find out how your gym can tap into the corporate wellness boom
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Starpool supports Olympic champion Marcell Jacobs, says Riccardo Turri
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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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SnowDome Fitness has added 50 per cent more space with cutting-edge Technogym solutions
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Deena Gillan
Chair of UK Active’s Independent Council and GM at 3-1-5“There are so many dedicated people in the independent sector – they work hard because they’re passionate about changing lives”
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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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