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09 Mar 2026
UK Active and This Girl Can have published a new guide to help fitness and
18 Aug 2025
The three-year Opening School Facilities initiative smashed all targets according to a report into its
08 Aug 2025
UK Active, Sport England, CIMSPA and Women’s Aid have published new resources to help fitness
20 Jun 2025
The UK's Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has announced £900 million for major
27 Mar 2025
The UK government has announced £100 million of new funding to support grassroots sports and
24 Mar 2025
Loughborough University in the UK has teamed up with Vitality to launch a Women in
Elevate is set to celebrate its 10th anniversary in style this June, with organisers confirming
24 Jul 2024
Female health expert, The Well HQ has teamed up with training provider, The Fitness Group,
15 Jun 2024
More than 200 organisations and athletes in the UK have signed an open letter to
14 Mar 2023
The UK government has declared that boys and girls should have equal access to sports
23 Feb 2023
The government’s energy relief for swimming pools, leisure centres and gyms is scheduled to end
28 Sep 2022
A recent OnePoll survey on behalf of The Gym Group (TGG) has found one in
01 Jul 2022
At UK Active’s Active Uprising event yesterday (30 June) in Birmingham, Hattie Jones, the head
One of the biggest mistakes operators in the fitness industry still make is advertising almost
10 May 2022
Sport England and UK Active have signed a five-year partnership agreement which will see the
10 Nov 2021
A new guide has been published to give health clubs, gyms and leisure centres in
20 Oct 2021
Anne Biging and Dr Elisabeth Ixmeier, founders of Healing Hotels of the World and the
29 Oct 2020
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has pledged his support for plans to build a £70m world
30 Dec 2019
The Global Wellness Institute (GWI) has appointed Renee Moorefield and Michelle Floh to its board
11 Dec 2019
England Netball has published its new Disability Strategy, in which it outlines plans to increase
Celebrating its milestone fifth anniversary, W3Fit EMEA returns in 2026 with an unmissable gathering of
09 Oct 2019
The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has pledged to transform women's cricket by investing
11 Sep 2019
Sport Ireland is to invest more than €3m (£2.7m) as part of plans to create
27 Aug 2019
Rugby's world governing body has announced that its flagship Rugby World Cup properties will no
06 Aug 2019
Joanna Adams, CEO of England Netball will be leaving the governing body later this year
04 Jul 2019
With the plaudits rolling in for the quality of football at the FIFA Women's World
13 Jun 2019
Women in Sport has appointed Stephanie Hilborne OBE as its new chief executive. Hilborne, who
11 Jun 2019
World governing body FIFA has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the United Nations
21 May 2019
Sports psychologist Jeremy Snape and Olympic gold medallist Amy Williams are among the keynote speakers
25 Mar 2019
Increasing sports participation among women and girls will be one of the "cornerstones" of a
25 Feb 2019
Ruth Holdaway chief executive of Women in Sport, is leaving the charity to take up
13 Dec 2018
Sport England is to invest £3m in the popular Parkrun movement, with a focus on
25 Oct 2018
The Scottish government and sportscotland have made £300,000 worth of extra funding available for projects
02 Jul 2018
Hertfordshire based organisation Herts Sports and Physical Activity Partnership (HSP) ran its annual week-long campaign
29 May 2018
The first -ever World Bathing Day – an international celebration of bathing cultures – is
15 May 2018
Jennie Price will leave her role as CEO of Sport England at the end of
19 Apr 2018
A new funding scheme has been launched to aid the retention of adult male teams
14 Mar 2018
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has taken what it calls "concrete steps" to tackle gender
13 Feb 2018
London is set to benefit from an additional 100 qualified, female football coaches, as part
21 Nov 2017
Women-only swimming sessions could hold the key to improving numbers, according to an initiative by
14 Nov 2017
The RFU and Sport England will invest £10m to get 100,000 more women and girls
10 Nov 2017
The London Football Association (LFA) has moved towards a more representative board, with a third
19 Oct 2017
More than 1,500 new football teams and 3,400 coaches will be created after the FA
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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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Starpool supports Olympic champion Marcell Jacobs, says Riccardo Turri
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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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Find out how your gym can tap into the corporate wellness boom
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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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EGYM has opened a new HQ in Paternoster Square,
London and revealed a range of new launches
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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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Performance Health Systems, manufacturer of Power Plate,
has a new CEO, with an ambitious vision for the company
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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“Strength training has moved from the margins to the mainstream.”
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