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31 Oct 2025
Everyone Active, Sarah Watts and Sandwell Leisure Trust were among those to be honoured at
20 Aug 2025
The finalists of the UK Active Awards 2025 have been announced today (19 August) following
04 Oct 2024
Some 800 people attended the UK Active Awards ceremony last night (3 October) in Birmingham.
23 Jul 2024
Finalists for the UK Active Awards 2024 have been announced. Winners from across the 14
18 Jun 2024
More than 20 organisations have joined together in the UK to form the Swim Alliance,
RLSS UK, STA and Swim England are joining forces to bring Aquatics to Elevate 2024
One of the biggest mistakes operators in the fitness industry still make is advertising almost
23 Feb 2023
The government’s energy relief for swimming pools, leisure centres and gyms is scheduled to end
Parkwood Leisure, one of the UK’s leading leisure operators, has reached the milestone of teaching
09 Sep 2020
A new training initiative is aiming to 'retool the physical activity workforce' to help businesses
14 Feb 2020
The Royal Life Saving Society (RLSS) and Greenwich Leisure Limited (GLL) have signed a partnership
30 Oct 2019
The Royal Life Saving Society UK (RLSS UK) is proud to be the industry leader
03 Oct 2019
The Royal Life Saving Society UK (RLSS UK) has confirmed it is extending its partnership
CoverMe, the global leader in fitness workforce management, today launches CoverMe PT, an on-demand personal
25 Jun 2019
The number of drownings in the UK's inland waters has risen in the last year.
28 May 2019
The Royal Life Saving Society UK (RLSS UK) has appointed Robert Gofton as its new
17 May 2019
Swim England and the Royal Life Saving Society (RLSS UK) have entered into a new
29 Mar 2019
Recently appointed chief executive officer Martin Symcox has a list of improvements he wants to
15 Feb 2019
Water safety charity The Royal Life Saving Society UK (RLSS UK) has launched a new
04 Jan 2019
The Royal Life Saving Society UK (RLSS UK) is shuffling its top team heading into
As healthcare continues to shift towards prevention, there’s a growing focus on helping people stay
15 Oct 2018
Water safety charity The Royal Life Saving Society UK (RLSS UK) has named Jo Talbot
11 Oct 2018
Metro Blind Sport has appointed Martin Symcox, the former director of drowning prevention charity the
04 Oct 2018
The Royal Life Saving Society UK (RLSS UK) and Leisure Media have announced a partnership,
01 Jun 2017
Greenwich Leisure Limited (GLL) has launched a campaign to recruit older people to help tackle
09 Jul 2015
The Royal Life Saving Society (RLSS UK) has announced Martin Symcox as the new director
29 Aug 2014
The Chartered Institute for Management of Sport and Physical Activity (CIMSPA) has announced a new
13 Jun 2014
A drowning prevention campaign, which aims to cut down the hundreds of deaths caused by
04 Sep 2013
Bath Sports and Leisure Centre and Culverhay Sports Centre have already helped 50 local people
03 Sep 2013
Virgin Active has employed eight lifeguards at its new site in Falmer, Brighton, following free
28 Mar 2013
The Royal Life Saving Society (RLSS) has introduced a new course which aims to teach
15 Mar 2013
There are just two weeks left to nominate lifeguards and other fitness professionals who keep
12 Feb 2013
The Register of Aquatic Professionals (RAPs) has officially been launched into its pilot phase. Owned
11 Jan 2013
According to the Royal Life Saving Society (RLSS) there were no drowning deaths in public
19 Sep 2012
Image: The single qualification framework is set to come into force in 2014 SkillsActive has
28 Feb 2012
Nearly 3,000 trainers from leisure facilities throughout the UK have signed up for an update
12 Jul 2011
The first lifeguards in the city of Ras Tanura, Saudi Arabia, have been awarded the
08 Sep 2010
Staff at Plymouth Pavilions swimming pool have completed a new management course to enhance their
06 Sep 2010
With 300,000 visitors a year and pools being particularly busy due to the poor summer
26 May 2010
IQL UK's National Pool Management Qualification (NPMQ) has been used by a Middle Eastern site
29 Sep 2009
Australia's top pool lifesavers have been invited to take on some of the world's best
07 Sep 2009
Tom Heeley, 18, from Hoyland in Barnsley, is celebrating his new full time position as
17 Aug 2009
The Bolton Sports and Physical Activity Alliance (BOSPAA) has unveiled plans to invest £10,000 in
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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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Third Space partnered with IndigoFitness to deliver a
bespoke training space for its new club at The Whiteley
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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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SnowDome Fitness has added 50 per cent more space with cutting-edge Technogym solutions
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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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elevated wellness experience
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Active IQ is calling for greater accountability in online fitness advice with the launch of a new trustmark
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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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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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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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Raphael Cuomo explores the
powerful link between addiction,
health and behaviour change
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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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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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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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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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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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Record market penetration in the UK
fitness sector masks a deeper shift
around consumer engagement, according
to a report from Grant Thornton and
UK Active, as Liz Terry reports
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