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13 Mar 2024
The British Standards Institution (BSI) has introduced safeguarding guidelines to protect children in out-of-school settings,
05 Mar 2024
Formerly known as Gantner Ticketing, Vintia is a state-of-the-art ticketing and booking solution for the
30 Jun 2023
Pocket Rocket Group has appointed Nick Mennell as director to head up business development and
15 Mar 2023
In an announcement made today in advance of tomorrow's Spring Budget (15 March), the UK
23 Feb 2023
The government’s energy relief for swimming pools, leisure centres and gyms is scheduled to end
02 Feb 2023
The second phase of the UK’s MSK (musculoskeletal) health hub pilot will see the service
Elevate, the premier event in the physical activity, fitness, sports therapy and performance sector, is
In 2021, Pulse Fitness added to its ever-growing portfolio of leisure industry services with the
21 Dec 2022
Mark Sesnan, co-founder and CEO of GLL (Greenwich Leisure Limited), has announced that he will
14 Dec 2022
Mystery shopper business Proinsight Research has merged with ReactCX, a customer experience measurement and market
For almost 20 years, CardsSafe has been helping golf courses, clubhouses, bike hire businesses and
10 Oct 2022
The first W3Fit – the newly-launched networking event led by David Zarb Jenkins – saw 170
21 Jul 2022
Devin Consulting, one of the UK’s largest independent pool and spa engineering consultancies, has appointed
Panatta will consolidate its global presence throughout 2024 by attending a host of major industry
15 Jun 2022
Mike Farrar has been announced as the new chair at UK Active. His tenure will
15 Jun 2022
Key organisations from the UK’s leisure industry are lobbying the government for financial support to
15 Jun 2022
Oliver Lee OBE will be taking the position of CEO at Places Leisure from July.
More than 100 industry delegates met in person at the annual active-net event at Eastwood
24 Mar 2022
The North American thermal spa industry will come together once again on 9-12 May in
Jamie Cartwright is a co-owner of Hatton Boxing and founder of BOX12. In 2021 Jamie
PerformX Live, the premier business of fitness event, has announced Dr Jonathan Leary, founder and
10 Feb 2022
Customer demand for health clubs and gyms in the UK was ‘back to normal' during
12 Jan 2022
Mark Sesnan, co-founder and CEO of GLL, has been awarded an OBE in the New
22 Dec 2021
HCM has confirmed that the UK government's £1bn support package for the hospitality and leisure
18 Nov 2021
An initiative set up by the Rio Ferdinand Foundation in partnership with The Gym Group
07 Oct 2021
The Wellness Tourism Association (WTA) has unveiled the 2021 installation of its Wellness Travel Consumer
29 Jul 2021
As the leisure and attractions industry continues to recover and look to the future, IAAPA,
22 Jul 2021
Planning approval has been granted to what is set to become one of the first
13 Jul 2021
A consultation on social prescribing and other similar health programmes will look to "uncover the
08 Jul 2021
ukactive has set out its vision to develop a national strategy for the UK's public
08 Jun 2021
Active IQ has launched two new qualifications – the Level 2 Diploma in Health and
24 Mar 2021
It is unlikely that the UK will see a Work Out to Help Out scheme
15 Feb 2021
ukactive has published six 'policy calls', which it says are crucial in order to help
12 Feb 2021
Safe Space, supplier of lockers and changing room solutions to the fitness and leisure industry,
25 Nov 2020
Up to 100k people will benefit from the free gym and physical activity sessions, thanks
23 Nov 2020
Gyms, health clubs and leisure centres will be able to open their doors when the
11 Nov 2020
Andy Burnham and shadow culture secretary Jo Stevens have joined Paralympic legend Tanni Grey-Thompson in
27 Jul 2020
Bans on meal deals, stricter rules on food advertising and printing calorie contents on menus
10 Jul 2020
England and Scotland have become the most recent countries to announce their spas will reopen,
11 May 2020
The UK government has given the go-ahead for one-to-one personal training outdoors, as part of
01 May 2020
The physical activity sector has been left in shock by news that Steve Franks, the
22 Apr 2020
The UK government has launched a "major effort" to tackle loneliness and social isolation during
13 Apr 2020
The legislation intended to protect commercial tenants from eviction during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has
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Absenteeism and presenteeism is
taking a huge economic toll, with
musculoskeletal problems and poor
mental health the biggest issues.
Can workplace wellness make
a difference? Kath Hudson investigates
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Fuel the debate about issues and opportunities across the industry. We’d love to hear from you – [email protected]
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Liz Terry looks at which operators
are most recognised by consumers,
using Kantar’s latest brand insight
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HCM People
Esther Fairfax
Founder, The Lotte Berk Foundation“My mother was the first person to take dance and create an exercise programme out of it”
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Dr Paul Bedford talks
to Jak Phillips about
the double-edged
sword of the strength
training trend and his
ambitions for the sector
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Remember when there was mass hostility about London hosting the 2012 Olympics? Huw Edwards, CEO of UK Active, was there. He talks to Kath Hudson about the lessons he learned
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New laws are about to come into force that will oblige health club operators to offer consumers better membership terms. It will be disruptive, but tackled well, will change the sector for the better
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Jennifer Maanavi
Founder, Physique 57“Our ‘why?’ is to improve the lives of our clients, not to make them feel defeated”
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Although there’s much talk about working with
health services, research from SLC suggests
there’s much work to do before the sector is
ready for the challenge. Kath Hudson asks the
experts to identify barriers and solutions
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Property experts say it’s a golden moment for health and fitness operators
to secure leases, as the sector has come through the pandemic with its
reputation largely intact and clubs are seen as desirable anchor tenants.
Kath Hudson finds out why landlords want to talk
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A new study from researchers at Yale shows HIIT can reverse nerve damage caused by Parkinson’s
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