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19 Feb 2026
Former England rugby union player and contestant on the BBC’s celebrity Traitors show, Joe Marler,
18 Dec 2025
Life Leisure is raising awareness for the physical and mental wellbeing of men with the
19 Jul 2021
KA Leisure has appointed industry veteran Malcolm McPhail as its interim chief executive. McPhail, who
06 Oct 2020
Malcolm McPhail, group CEO of social enterprise Life Leisure, has stepped down from the role
06 Dec 2019
Life Leisure is expanding its facility portfolio with the launch of an independent boutique fitness
27 Nov 2018
Life Leisure has become a facility owner after acquiring the Stockport Sports Village (SSV). The
As healthcare continues to shift towards prevention, there’s a growing focus on helping people stay
17 Sep 2018
Australian health and fitness chain Jetts Fitness has opened its fifth UK club, Jetts Skipton,
11 Sep 2018
Jetts Fitness has opened a club in Skipton, Yorkshire, making it the fifth location the
22 Jun 2018
Winners of the inaugural ukactive Awards were revealed at a gala dinner in Manchester last
13 Jun 2018
Britain's rail network is currently in such a state, that even its Lego alternative has
03 May 2018
The finalists for this year's ukactive Awards have been revealed. The 2018 award categories have
Drayson celebrates rise from school drop-out to UK fitness industry's Outstanding Individual of 2017
13 Dec 2017
Danny Drayson has been on a journey from school drop-out to fitness and young person
Active Blackpool is deploying Cornerstone Connect, a new digital interface allowing disparate information from multiple
21 Feb 2017
Life Leisure's actilife health programme has been adopted by two North West leisure trusts planning
09 Mar 2016
Former Fitness First high-flyer David Perrin has launched a new class-based gym concept in Stockport
24 Jul 2015
Life Leisure is aiming for a national roll-out of its pioneering public health programme which
18 Jun 2015
Bostik UK has supplied the flooring at FC United of Manchester’s new £5.5m, 4,440 capacity
16 Jan 2015
A recent changing room refurbishment at a Life Leisure gym – which featured dramatic black
05 Dec 2014
Manchester United Football Club’s (MUFC) groundskeeping team has been named among the winners of the
One of the biggest mistakes operators in the fitness industry still make is advertising almost
01 Aug 2014
Gerflor’s Taraflex flooring has been installed at a gym complex owned by a European boxing
13 Dec 2013
The key to rejuvenating ailing town centres across the UK is to look beyond retail
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,
03 Jun 2013
Following on from the success of last year's inaugural Stockport Big Event Series, which welcomed
13 Feb 2013
British Swimming has axed Stockport's Metro Swimming Club from its network of intensive training centres
10 Oct 2012
Woodley Sports Centre in Stockport, Greater Manchester, has re-opened its doors as lifeLEISURE Stockport Sports
09 Oct 2012
Thornton Sports’ new Classic Match surface has recently been installed at Bramall Queensgate Tennis Club
04 Oct 2012
Woodley Sports Centre re-opened its doors on Monday 10 September as lifeLEISURE Stockport Sports Village
11 Sep 2012
Image: Ray Hatton (far right), with Metro staff and son Matthew (centre) Ray Hatton, father
05 Mar 2012
Life Leisure has officially launched the UK's most acclaimed weight loss programme in Stockport. As
16 Feb 2012
Pure Gym, the low-cost health club operator first launched in 2009, has announced its plans
16 Feb 2012
Stockport Council's executive has backed plans to acquire a long leasehold to a town centre
02 Dec 2011
The Fitness Industry Association (FIA) has announced its new board members for the three year
31 Oct 2011
Low-cost health club operator Fit4less has continued to expand its UK estate after unveiling its
03 Oct 2011
Fit4less, the low-cost gym concept owned by énergie Group, has announced the opening of its
05 Sep 2011
Stockport Sports Trust has announced that it is rebranding as Life Leisure. The rebrand is
11 Aug 2011
Active Faces, under director Damian Locascio, has developed a unique model for the health and
08 Aug 2011
North West England-based Stockport Sports Trust has confirmed that it is to be renamed as
05 Jul 2011
The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) has announced that Stockport's Bramall Hall has moved a step
28 Jun 2011
Health club operator énergie has opened its 13th Fit4Less-branded budget gym and revealed that it
09 May 2011
Stockport Sports Trust have launched a charity foundation in the name of their late Chairman,
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SnowDome Fitness has added 50 per cent more space with cutting-edge Technogym solutions
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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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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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Third Space partnered with IndigoFitness to deliver a
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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,
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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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If the health service is to
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us, says the activity advocate
and healthy ageing champion.
He talks to Kate Cracknell
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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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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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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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Raphael Cuomo explores the
powerful link between addiction,
health and behaviour change
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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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Deena Gillan
Chair of UK Active’s Independent Council and GM at 3-1-5“There are so many dedicated people in the independent sector – they work hard because they’re passionate about changing lives”
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New insight from Deloitte and Grant Thornton shows record growth, but the real shift is towards identity and perceived value, revealing opportunities to deepen engagement with members
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