Parliament news
12 Jan 2021
The government needs to provide the fitness and physical activity sector with a plan which
07 Jan 2021
The UK physical activity sector will lose around £400m a month during lockdown. The figure,
09 Dec 2020
The House of Lords' National Plan for Sport and Recreation committee has invited sporting organisations
26 Nov 2020
Nick Whitcombe, the independent gym owner who refused to shut his gym during the October
26 Nov 2020
This year's UK government Spending Review, announced in Parliament by chancellor Rishi Sunak on 25
23 Nov 2020
Closing gyms and leisure facilities during any possible future lockdown would be "unthinkable", according to
22 Dec 2020
The world has had to get used to social distancing in 2020 and any business
23 Nov 2020
Gyms, health clubs and leisure centres will be able to open their doors when the
19 Nov 2020
UK Parliament will debate COVID-19 restrictions on gyms and leisure centres on Monday 23 November,
18 Nov 2020
Thousands of COVID-related deaths could be prevented if successive governments had tackled the country's obesity
17 Nov 2020
Humphrey Cobbold, CEO of PureGym, has confirmed to HCM that the company's operations in Poland
11 Nov 2020
The Parliament will hold a debate on COVID-19 restrictions on gyms and sport on Monday
03 Nov 2020
The sport and physical activity sector is mounting a challenge to government plans to shut
12 Jan 2021
Addiction – a word laden with negativity. But isn’t that exactly what the fitness industry
03 Nov 2020
Industry body, ukactive, is encouraging all fitness operators in England to contact their local MP
29 Oct 2020
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has pledged his support for plans to build a £70m world
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
05 Oct 2020
UK tourism and heritage minister, Nigel Huddleston, delivered the keynote speech during this year's Annual
25 Sep 2020
Chancellor Rishi Sunak's proposals to support the economy through the next six months of the
19 Nov 2020
Matrix Fitness has announced an exclusive partnership with Primal Strength to target an increased strategic
07 Aug 2020
Spa and wellness businesses have a long history of using hydrotherapy to deliver curative benefits
04 Aug 2020
The UK government has postponed the reopening of saunas, steamrooms and the recommencement of close-contact
10 Jul 2020
England and Scotland have become the most recent countries to announce their spas will reopen,
09 Jul 2020
The UK's fitness industry can finally get back to business on Saturday 25 July, following
02 Jul 2020
The UK spa, beauty and wellness industry is in uproar following a recent Prime Minister’s
30 Jun 2020
The UK Spa Association (UKSA) is urging industry members to lobby the government for a
24 Jun 2020
Momentum is gathering pace in the push for a U-turn on the government's decision to
23 Jun 2020
UK spas will continue to remain closed until further notice, following an announcement by Prime
17 Jun 2020
The spa industry urgently needs government guidance about reopening, according to the UK Spa Association’s
06 May 2020
Leaders of major English sports have told MPs that they are set to lose more
04 May 2020
Nearly a hundred members of parliament (MP) have written a letter to chancellor Rishi Sunak,
01 May 2020
The physical activity sector has been left in shock by news that Steve Franks, the
20 Jan 2020
The Sport for Development Coalition (SFDC) has appointed former MP Andy Reed as its new
17 Dec 2019
Nicky Morgan has been reappointed culture secretary, despite having retired from the House of Commons
21 Nov 2019
The Sport and Recreation Alliance and ukactive will host sport and physical activity hustings with
14 Nov 2019
LBA have created a pod hostel in a listed building that was originally designed as
30 Oct 2019
The time has come for Westminster to provide the same urgency and focus for the
29 Oct 2019
There has been no improvement in the way the UK population feels about its personal
27 Aug 2019
The London Fire Brigade's (LFB) former headquarters ‒ a Grade II listed building across the
24 Aug 2019
Former Cabinet Secretary Lord Gus O’Donnell and professor Helen Stokes-Lampard, the chair of the Royal
07 Aug 2019
Members of Parliament will quiz cricket chiefs over their plans to capitalise on England's recent
25 Jul 2019
An alliance of walking and cycling organisations has called on the government to make a
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Research
New research from the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, has established why people who exercise when suffering from cancer generally have better outcomes
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Nu Physio and Fitness has placed Egym at the heart of its protection and prevention model
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This was a year when research helped transformed the gym sector into a serious political force. Two pieces of work stand out in terms of timely impact
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How Virtuagym and Thebodycontent created an ecosystem of fitness within a small community
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We’ve stepped off the path this month to bring you a special 2020 review edition of HCM and to propose emerging priorities going forward, as we gird our loins to tackle 2021
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High quality user experience and good value for the operator. This is the winning formula behind an expanding Physical Company product range, says James Anderson
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“We haven’t applied a blanket freeze to membership during lockdown 2, instead we’ve challenged our members to use the time to achieve a specific health and fitness goal”
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Regular sessions of new-generation yoga can help tackle the
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