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20 Mar 2026
Places Leisure has announced a new strategic partnership with COPA as the preferred apprenticeship delivery
10 Dec 2025
The UK government has announced a National Youth Strategy, backed by £500 million, to rebuild
03 Jul 2025
The much anticipated Fit for the Future: 10 Year Health Plan for England reveals ambitious
20 Dec 2023
The UK’s most recently-formed local government body – North Yorkshire Council – is making wellbeing
20 Mar 2023
Hand Picked Hotels (HPH) has launched its new Spa Therapist Apprenticeship programme, working alongside national
18 Jan 2023
Storm LDN, a community-supporting boutique boxing gym concept based in London, is gearing up to
As healthcare continues to shift towards prevention, there’s a growing focus on helping people stay
21 Nov 2022
Scottish hotel group Crerar Hotels has unveiled a new spa therapist apprenticeship programme in a
09 Mar 2020
Training provider The Training Room has appointed Chris Peel as its new CEO. Peel will
19 Feb 2020
The government's post-Brexit plans to stop "low-skilled workers" from entering the UK has been described
07 Feb 2020
Ukactive has called on HM Treasury to invest more in the physical activity sector, in
17 Oct 2019
A £13m (US$16.8m, €15.1m) project to create a museum that celebrates Blackpool's role in the
04 Sep 2019
Virgin Active has enlisted around 100 of its staff on a bespoke apprenticeship programme in
Elevate is set to celebrate its 10th anniversary in style this June, with organisers confirming
28 Jun 2019
The first ever tourism sector deal aims to prepare the UK for an extra 9
23 Apr 2019
SCL Education Group has appointed Brad Rushton as managing director of its SCL Education and
14 Mar 2019
The chancellor, Philip Hammond, has presented his Spring Statement to parliament, making updates to apprenticeship
07 Mar 2019
A new Leisure Team Member apprenticeship is now available for funded delivery, giving the sports
05 Mar 2019
National Apprenticeship Week, the annual celebration of the impact of apprenticeships on businesses, individuals and
04 Mar 2019
ukactive has partnered with the Pearson Business School to deliver a chartered manager degree apprenticeship
One of the biggest mistakes operators in the fitness industry still make is advertising almost
29 Nov 2018
Lady Cobham CBE has called for increased focus on work-based training opportunities, in order to
06 Mar 2018
The number of people starting new apprenticeships has fallen by a third, igniting worries that
15 Feb 2018
To coincide with National Apprenticeship Week in March, Leisure Opportunities is undertaking an employer survey
01 Dec 2017
More apprentices will be offered a route into the sports and leisure industry following a
15 Sep 2017
The physical activity sector's chartered professional body has received £1.2m (US$1.6m, €1.3m) from Sport England
25 Jul 2017
Conservative MP Steve Double has been elected chair of the cross-party Parliamentary group responsible for
11 Jul 2017
Lifetime Training has signed a deal to provide level 2 and 3 apprenticeship programmes across
19 Dec 2016
Sport and leisure industry training provider ICON Training has been shortlisted in two categories at
13 Sep 2016
Leisure and travel giant TUI is to create more than 2,000 new apprentices in the
10 Aug 2016
GLL (Greenwich Leisure Ltd) has signed a partnership agreement with a professional body to help
05 Aug 2016
Arun District Council has selected Willmott Dixon to build a £15m leisure centre for the
26 Jul 2016
We’re always looking to add new talent to the Everyone Active team, and our 12-month
20 Jul 2016
Leeds City Council is mulling over a request to grant £4m (US$5.3m, €4.8m) of funding
28 Jun 2016
Britain’s impending withdrawal from the European Union will present a broad range of challenges for
21 Jun 2016
Lifetime Training is to be bought by its management in a deal backed by private
14 Mar 2016
As National Apprenticeship Week kicks off today (14 March), new research has found that 80
16 Feb 2016
The number of jobs in the UK’s tourism sector grew by more than twice as
01 Feb 2016
Lifetime Training has secured a major new partnership with GLL to become the key training
28 Jan 2016
Premier League football club Tottenham Hotspur has launched a campaign to help improve the employment
07 Jan 2016
The fast-approaching National Living Wage is either a great opportunity for the fitness industry to
15 Dec 2015
The former Isis Academy of Beauty in Surrey, England has rebranded after fielding abusive phone
04 Dec 2015
Work to improve physical activity sector apprenticeships through the Trailblazer initiative has made another leap
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Starpool supports Olympic champion Marcell Jacobs, says Riccardo Turri
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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
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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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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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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Raphael Cuomo explores the
powerful link between addiction,
health and behaviour change
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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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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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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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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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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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Designing multi-functional
spaces can lead to
fewer bottlenecks at
peak times. Julie Cramer
investigates the latest kit
and inspiring installations
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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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“Strength training has moved from the margins to the mainstream.”
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