Places Leisure news
20 Mar 2026
Places Leisure has announced a new strategic partnership with COPA as the preferred apprenticeship delivery
26 Jan 2026
Places Leisure has opened Epping Leisure Centre. Undertaken in partnership with Epping Forest District Council
11 Nov 2025
Of the 60 companies chosen by the UK government to be vanguard employers in the
15 Sep 2025
Box 12, supplier of boxing studios and programming, is going into voluntary liquidation, with Begbies
20 Aug 2025
The finalists of the UK Active Awards 2025 have been announced today (19 August) following
23 Jul 2025
Leisure DB has released its State of the UK Swimming Industry Report 2025. In the
As healthcare continues to shift towards prevention, there’s a growing focus on helping people stay
14 Jul 2025
A £24 million modernisation programme will get underway in Wandsworth, London as Places Leisure wins
11 Jun 2025
Energy costs have pushed Active Nation into liquidation, despite the charity reporting the strongest trading
05 Jun 2025
The UK fitness industry is growing in terms of members, market value and penetration, according
13 May 2025
In a drive to target the hard-to-reach groups, Places Leisure has introduced a team of
09 Apr 2025
More than 70 per cent of children are being taken out of swimming lessons before
01 Nov 2024
Spelthorne Borough Council has opened the doors to a world-leading leisure centre built to Passivhaus
One of the biggest mistakes operators in the fitness industry still make is advertising almost
24 Oct 2024
Accor, which has 5,200 hotels globally, is shifting from being a room-based organisation – built
24 Oct 2024
Group CEO of Virgin Active and healthy food brands Kauai and Nü, Dean Kowarski, is
24 Oct 2024
The first HCM Summit has officially kicked off today (24 October) in the heart of
19 Sep 2024
Operators across the UK ran special events and gave away free passes to encourage people
04 Sep 2024
Third Space is gearing up to open its 12th site – the third this year
21 Aug 2024
The UK’s largest operator of affordable fitness, PureGym, has announced today that CEO Humphrey Cobbold
CoverMe, the global leader in fitness workforce management, today launches CoverMe PT, an on-demand personal
14 Aug 2024
Everyone Active will take over the operation of Sheffield’s sports and leisure venues, including three
14 Aug 2024
Fitness First has created a premium membership offering by deploying HealthHero’s full suite of services,
13 Aug 2024
The HCM Summit, which will be held in London on 24 October, has announced EGYM
24 Jul 2024
Female health expert, The Well HQ has teamed up with training provider, The Fitness Group,
23 Jul 2024
Finalists for the UK Active Awards 2024 have been announced. Winners from across the 14
11 Jul 2024
Rugby legend, Jonny Wilkinson has been announced as a keynote speaker for the HCM Summit
03 Jul 2024
Happy staff make more profitable businesses is the message of Jetts CEO, Elaine Jobson’s new
15 Jun 2024
More than 200 organisations and athletes in the UK have signed an open letter to
19 Apr 2024
The HCM team were busy at the recent FIBO Global Fitness event in Cologne, Germany,
16 Apr 2024
UK Active has announced details of its annual health and fitness industry awards ceremony, which
16 Apr 2024
Social enterprise, Places Leisure, which is part of the Places for People Group, has appointed
16 Mar 2024
Will Orr, CEO of The Gym Group, has revealed the company’s full-year results for 2023,
27 Feb 2024
Speaking exclusively in the current issue of HCM magazine, Third Space CEO, Colin Waggett, says
26 Feb 2024
Following a successful pilot, The Gym Group is rolling out a programme, delivered by The
21 Feb 2024
Les Mills has been through a senior management refresh following the recent departure of CEO
22 Nov 2023
Athlete-inspired wellness, social wellbeing and active nutrition are three of the hottest trends set to
27 Oct 2023
The top operators, suppliers and facilities from across the physical activity sector were celebrated last
03 Apr 2023
Pillar Wellbeing, which provides a customised and standalone fitness and wellbeing services to the hospitality
09 Mar 2023
Last year, Taylor Made Designs launched its end of use textile recycling programme. Between January
28 Feb 2023
Residents of Wolverhampton, UK can earn gym discounts and food vouchers for exercising and eating
23 Feb 2023
The government’s energy relief for swimming pools, leisure centres and gyms is scheduled to end
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Third Space partnered with IndigoFitness to deliver a
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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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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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Starpool supports Olympic champion Marcell Jacobs, says Riccardo Turri
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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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Performance Health Systems, manufacturer of Power Plate,
has a new CEO, with an ambitious vision for the company
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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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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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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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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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Raphael Cuomo explores the
powerful link between addiction,
health and behaviour change
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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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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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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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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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UK market penetration has risen to 18 per cent – one of the highest
globally, yet with 100 per cent of people seeing benefits when they
exercise, how high could it go? Kath Hudson asks the experts…
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CoverMe, the global leader in fitness workforce management, today launches CoverMe PT, an
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Active Blackpool is deploying Cornerstone Connect, a new digital interface allowing
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its focus on reducing health inequalities and improving healthy life expectancy.
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