St Albans news
20 Aug 2025
The finalists of the UK Active Awards 2025 have been announced today (19 August) following
10 Feb 2025
Fitness First has opened the doors to its 28th site in Marylebone, central London –
26 Jan 2023
Fitness First’s annual Red Monday campaign, which ran across the UK on 16 January 2023,
02 Nov 2022
A local leisure centre has begun work on a £1m refurbishment to provide state-of-the-art facilities
02 Sep 2022
St Albans City and District Council has signed a ten-year deal with Sport and Leisure
17 May 2022
New fitness franchise, Circuit Society, has signed its first London location in Bayswater. The 3,000sq
One of the biggest mistakes operators in the fitness industry still make is advertising almost
18 May 2021
Visitors to St Albans Cathedral in the UK will be able to spot a very
11 Jun 2019
Cottonmill, a new private members' spa, is set to open at Sopwell House in St
02 Jul 2018
Hertfordshire based organisation Herts Sports and Physical Activity Partnership (HSP) ran its annual week-long campaign
27 Nov 2017
Leisure operator Everyone Active has announced a partnership with the International Institute of Anti-Ageing (IIAA),
12 Oct 2017
Everyone Active has pledged to remove more than three tonnes of sugar – the equivalent
15 Aug 2016
Local authorities have been at the forefront of creating a “transformative” participation legacy following London
Active Blackpool is deploying Cornerstone Connect, a new digital interface allowing disparate information from multiple
11 Nov 2015
British swimming greats Rebecca Adlington, Mark Foster and Steve Parry joined sports minister Tracey Crouch
13 Jul 2015
The new £4.6m Cotlandswick Leisure Centre in London Colney has opened to the public, following
24 Jun 2015
The physical activity sector’s brightest and best were honoured this evening (24 June) as 14
02 Feb 2015
The UK Spa Association Networking event took place last week at the Westminster Lodge Leisure
08 Oct 2014
Construction is well underway on the new £14m (US$22.4m, €17.8m) Abbey Leisure Centre in Barking
01 Oct 2014
Birmingham’s Motorcycle Museum was the scene for the glittering Members’ Choice Health Club Awards 2014
Elevate is set to celebrate its 10th anniversary in style this June, with organisers confirming
23 May 2014
Finalists for the new-look 2014 Flame Awards were announced yesterday afternoon by ukactive CEO David
02 May 2014
Batchwood Sports Centre in St Albans, Hertfordshire is to reopen on 26 May following a
07 Apr 2014
Spa operator Champneys closed its day spa in Bath, UK, on 31 March after six
04 Apr 2014
The Heritage Lottery Fund has announced £30m of funding towards 10 diverse projects across the
30 Sep 2013
Speaking at the awards ceremony for the third annual Members’ Choice Health Club Awards during
25 Sep 2013
The winners of the Members' Choice Health Club Awards for 2013 were announced last night,
30 Jan 2013
St Albans City Football Club has presented its plans for a new 5,000-seat stadium to
30 Jan 2013
St Albans' Town Hall will be transformed into a museum with a basement gallery over
10 Jan 2013
New tennis and judo facilities have been approved for Batchwood Golf & Tennis Centre in
31 May 2012
Image: The concept will include swimming facilities Willmott Dixon, the Hertfordshire-based construction company, has announced
30 May 2012
An exhibition of plans for a new leisure facility at Cotlandswick Open Space, Hertfordshire, has
22 Mar 2012
Two design teams have been appointed to project manage the construction of a tennis centre
21 Mar 2012
S&P Architects have submitted a planning application to Ealing Council for the proposed multi-million pound
27 Feb 2012
St Albans City and District Council (SACDC) has welcomed the latest milestone in work to
09 Dec 2011
A new strategy for the redevelopment of Hertfordshire's Batchwood Golf and Tennis Centre has been
02 Dec 2011
Work on the new £24m Westminster Lodge Leisure Centre in St Albans, Hertfordshire, has reached
04 Nov 2011
St Albans City and District Council (SACDC) is to pursue plans for a new leisure
21 Oct 2011
Indoor tennis provision has been restored at St Albans' Batchwood Golf and Tennis Centre, after
09 Sep 2011
St Albans City and District Council (SACDC) will consult with both London Colney Parish Council
09 Sep 2011
St Albans City and District Council (SACDC) has announced that work has now started on
17 Aug 2011
A golf course has reopened in St Albans, Hertfordshire, following a blaze that "destroyed" the
10 Aug 2011
St Albans City and District Council (SACDC) has confirmed that a fire at Batchwood Golf
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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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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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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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