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26 Jan 2024
Dawn Tuckwell and Cheryl Hersey, founders of Action Group, have sold the company to their
17 Jan 2024
Physiotherapy patients are being offered treatment in leisure centres thanks to a tie-up between London
06 Dec 2023
An Independent Commission for Healthier Working Lives, supported by the Health Foundation, is being established
14 Aug 2023
Parkwood Leisure, in partnership with its subsidiary companies Legacy Leisure and Lex Leisure, has launched
23 Feb 2023
The government’s energy relief for swimming pools, leisure centres and gyms is scheduled to end
14 Feb 2023
The Parkwood Group has taken over leisure management contracting business 1Life Management Solutions Limited (1LMS
Study Active has legally acquired the name “Premier Global” and select Premier Global branding assets
15 Sep 2022
The Tarka Leisure Centre in North Devon, which reopened in June after a £15m revamp,
07 Jul 2022
It was a night to remember at the 2022 ukactive Awards for Parkwood Leisure, as
01 Jul 2022
The best in the business from across the physical activity sector were honoured last night
Parkwood Leisure, one of the UK’s leading leisure operators, has reached the milestone of teaching
20 Aug 2021
Parkwood Leisure – one of the UK’s leading leisure operators – is offering free access
10 Aug 2021
The number of children enrolled on Parkwood Leisure's Learn to Swim Programme, has reached a
Elevate, the premier event in the physical activity, fitness, sports therapy and performance sector, is
09 Oct 2019
Parkwood Leisure has launched a programme of workshops, aimed at making its staff more aware
25 Sep 2019
MoveGB is a collaboration-based platform, but being a platform, one of the common worries we
29 May 2019
Facility operator Parkwood Leisure has secured a 15-year lease to run Grange Leisure & Community
01 Mar 2019
Peter Fitzboydon has stepped down from his managing director position at Parkwood Leisure after less
05 Feb 2019
Parkwood Leisure has been awarded a 10-year contract to operate leisure facilities on behalf of
28 Dec 2018
Construction work on the Broughton Astley Leisure Centre in Leicestershire is set to begin in
PerformX Live, the premier business of fitness event, has announced Dr Jonathan Leary, founder and
22 May 2018
YMCA Awards has become the UK’s first awarding organisation to achieve accreditation from the Chartered
09 May 2018
New research has shown that those taking part in supervised resistance training benefit from vast
13 Mar 2018
Parkwood Leisure, one of the UK’s most experienced providers of leisure management working in partnership
06 Mar 2018
Management company Parkwood Leisure has named Andy Farr as its new business development director. Farr
17 Feb 2018
A futuristic leisure centre, featuring an indoor street and winter garden running through the spine
23 Jan 2018
Plastic cutlery and cups will be removed from all cafés in leisure centres run by
08 Jan 2018
Tony Hewitt, the founder and executive chair of the Parkwood Group, which owns Parkwood Leisure,
19 Dec 2017
More than 80 leisure facilities across the UK will overhaul their food and beverage offering
26 Sep 2017
Tove Okunniwa, the former head of marketing for BBC Sport, has been announced as the
29 Aug 2017
The Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead (RBWM) council has revealed detailed plans for the
29 Jun 2017
The health and fitness industry’s finest came together in their hundreds last night (28 June)
17 May 2017
Peter Fitzboydon, the outgoing chief executive of London Sport, has called on the sport sector
28 Apr 2017
Both ends of the private gym market will be represented when budget brand Xercise4Less takes
18 Apr 2017
Peter Fitzboydon has stepped down from his chief executive position at London Sport to become
03 Jan 2017
Nottingham’s West Bridgford district has kicked off 2017 by welcoming a £13m (US$15.9m, €15.3m) sport
02 Nov 2016
The public is being given the opportunity to offer their views on the new £29m
09 Sep 2015
National Fitness Day 2015 kicked off this morning (9 September), making a major impact online
24 Aug 2015
Efforts to revolutionise physical activity sector apprenticeships have taken a solid step forward after the
29 Jul 2015
Major operators such as Fitness First, Parkwood Leisure and Places for People Leisure have signed
20 Apr 2015
As the industry's largest health club client, this year alone MoveGB will purchase several £M's
24 Oct 2014
A coalition of leading leisure employers and industry organisations have today (23 October) launched a
14 Jan 2014
National chains of low-cost, high tech self-service gyms are set for accelerated growth in 2014,
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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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You might be tempted to skip a service, but
experts say it will cost you in the long run.
Providers tell Steph Eaves why they their work
is important to the management of assets
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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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Liz Terry looks at which operators
are most recognised by consumers,
using Kantar’s latest brand insight
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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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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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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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A new study from researchers at Yale shows HIIT can reverse nerve damage caused by Parkinson’s
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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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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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