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10 Dec 2025
The UK government has announced a National Youth Strategy, backed by £500 million, to rebuild
20 Jun 2025
The UK's Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has announced £900 million for major
13 Jun 2025
The much-anticipated UK government’s Spending Review (SR) 2025 was delivered yesterday (11 June), which sets
10 May 2025
Commentators are speculating that the Labour government is considering disbanding the Department of Culture, Media
28 Jan 2025
The results of the first major UK study to quantify the benefits of consuming culture
02 Aug 2024
Lisa Nandy, secretary of state at the UK government's Department of Culture, Media and Sport
As healthcare continues to shift towards prevention, there’s a growing focus on helping people stay
09 Jul 2024
The UK's National Sector Partners Group (NSP) has called on the new government to pledge
10 Feb 2023
Lucy Frazer has replaced Michelle Donelan as culture secretary at the UK's newly-named Department for
07 Sep 2022
Michelle Donelan has been appointed secretary of state for digital, culture, media and sport by
15 Jun 2022
Key organisations from the UK’s leisure industry are lobbying the government for financial support to
15 Oct 2021
Nadine Dorries, the recently appointed secretary of state for digital, culture, media and sport at
22 Mar 2021
The FA Cup final in May could be played in front of 20,000 football fans,
Active Blackpool is deploying Cornerstone Connect, a new digital interface allowing disparate information from multiple
10 Feb 2021
A Parliamentary Petition calling for gyms to reopen first after the current national lockdown in
12 Jan 2021
The government needs to provide the fitness and physical activity sector with a plan which
29 Oct 2020
The UK government has provided a lengthy response to a petition which demanded that gyms
22 Oct 2020
The government has pledged to invest £100m in supporting public leisure centres this winter, as
06 May 2020
Leaders of major English sports have told MPs that they are set to lose more
30 Mar 2020
The UK's Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee (DCMS) will meet this week to hear
One of the biggest mistakes operators in the fitness industry still make is advertising almost
17 Dec 2019
Nicky Morgan has been reappointed culture secretary, despite having retired from the House of Commons
14 Nov 2019
Disability sports charity Activity Alliance has called on political parties to commit to giving disabled
01 Feb 2019
Latest figures from the County Council Network (CCN), which represents all county councils in England,
21 Jan 2019
Local culture, heritage and creative industries in five parts of the UK are set to
02 Nov 2018
Sports minister Tracey Crouch has resigned over the government's delay in bringing down the maximum
16 Oct 2018
The UK Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has published an action plan
20 Sep 2018
Arts Council England (ACE) and the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) have announced a partnership to
06 Sep 2018
A number of heritage projects in the Middle East and Africa have been given millions
10 Aug 2018
British Basketball Federation (BBF) has appointed highly experienced sports governance veteran Maurice Watkins CBE as
10 Jul 2018
Jeremy Wright, the MP for Kenilworth and Southam, has been named Britain's new culture secretary
30 May 2018
UK Sport is to deliver a "one-off" support deal to British Basketball, in order to
14 May 2018
The UK sports sector has been paying its tributes to former Labour cabinet minister Dame
17 Apr 2018
UK residents and tourists are fortunate to be able to visit the nation’s top museums
07 Feb 2018
A highly anticipated exhibition of Terracotta Warriors, carefully transported from China’s Shaanxi Province, will launch
07 Feb 2018
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) is driving for the sports and physical
31 Jan 2018
Sports minister Tracey Crouch has described the government’s strategy for sport as making “good progress”
15 Jan 2018
Former House of Commons deputy leader Michael Ellis has been named parliamentary undersecretary for arts,
12 Jan 2018
Tourism minister John Glen is the latest mover in British prime minister Theresa May’s cabinet
09 Jan 2018
Matt Hancock has been appointed secretary of state for digital, culture, media and sport in
27 Dec 2017
Record levels for Britain's inbound tourism are set to continue into 2018, after VisitBritain forecast
21 Dec 2017
Birmingham has officially been named the host city of the 2022 Commonwealth Games, beating competition
05 Dec 2017
The British government has spelt out plans to maximise the UK's heritage assets as preparations
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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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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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The Breath Coach“I experienced a blissful feeling of joy I hadn’t felt since I was a kid”
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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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Raphael Cuomo explores the
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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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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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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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