artificial pitches news
04 Jan 2019
The £26m Dover District Leisure Centre is set to open its doors on February 2019.
13 Mar 2018
Murfitts, a UK-based manufacturer of artificial sports pitches, has developed PRO-gran, a new infill for
11 Oct 2017
Social enterprise Places for People Leisure has been awarded a 12-year management contract for the
12 Sep 2017
Construction of a £26m leisure centre in Dover, Kent, has been given the go ahead,
24 Aug 2017
Kidderminster Harriers football club has submitted a proposal to the Wyre Forest district council to
22 May 2017
The Rugby Football Union (RFU) has begun its search for a new chief executive after
CoverMe, the global leader in fitness workforce management, today launches CoverMe PT, an on-demand personal
17 Jan 2017
People in Aylesbury, Preston and Weston-super-Mare will be able to play rugby for £1 on
10 Jan 2017
BAM Construction has been chosen as the preferred building contractor to work on the pre-construction
10 Oct 2016
The Rugby Football Union (RFU) is planning to develop an artificial grass pitch in Liverpool
13 Sep 2016
Aylesbury, Preston and Weston-super-Mare are the first towns to benefit from floodlit artificial pitches under
30 Aug 2016
The Football Association (FA) is awaiting the green light to build grassroots football hubs in
16 Aug 2016
The winner has been announced in a hotly-contested competition to design a new leisure centre
Elevate is set to celebrate its 10th anniversary in style this June, with organisers confirming
09 May 2016
Almost 50 people have been made redundant as a result of artificial pitch manufacturer Thornton
13 Apr 2016
Ground has been broken on a US$23.5m (£16.5m, €20.8m) “high end” youth sports centre in
07 Apr 2016
Worcester Warriors will become the third Premiership Rugby club to lay an artificial pitch at
24 Mar 2016
The Rugby Football Union (RFU) is investigating whether professional clubs are holding players back from
15 Feb 2016
The Scottish Football Association (SFA) has queried the timing of survey results published by the
12 Feb 2016
The use of artificial turf in professional football has come under the spotlight after three-quarters
As healthcare continues to shift towards prevention, there’s a growing focus on helping people stay
15 Dec 2015
The Rugby Football Union (RFU) will invest £57m (US$86.4m, €78.5m) into the development of 100
27 Nov 2015
Improvements to clubhouses, a focus on coaching and investment in artificial pitches have been highlighted
09 Sep 2015
Football Association (FA) chief executive Martin Glenn has renewed the FA’s pledge to increase spending
02 Mar 2015
Grassroots hockey, football and rugby are the major beneficiaries of the latest round of Sport
12 Dec 2014
A 3G artificial pitch was used for the first time in the first round of
26 Jun 2014
Sportscotland has invested £3.5m in creating seven new artificial playing pitches. A total of £1.8m
10 Apr 2014
A new scheme is looking to raise the standards of community sports pitches in England.
31 Mar 2014
The Football Association (FA) is to allow the use of 3G artificial pitches in every
17 Mar 2014
The poor state of grass playing pitches is having a negative effect on grassroots football
10 Feb 2014
There should be a strong drive towards installing more artificial football pitches across England, a
07 May 2013
An 8m euro swimming pool and leisure centre has opened in Loughlinstown, Dublin with facilities
01 Mar 2013
Jersey has launched a consultation document calling for those who watch, volunteer or take part
27 Feb 2013
The Football Association (FA) has announced a three-year, £150m facility strategy which aims to improve
20 Jun 2012
Image: Plans include a first floor viewing gallery ISG has been awarded a contract for
14 Jun 2012
Work has now started on the installation of one of the country's "first club-based artificial
17 Feb 2012
A formal consultation process is to be launched by the Football League (FL) into the
15 Sep 2011
Sports Labs has announced that Yannick Pey and Sports Labs director, Richard Nixon, have signed
04 Aug 2011
Construction work is set to start on the new Gosport Leisure Park next month. The
23 May 2011
DC Leisure has been announced as Gosport Borough Council's (GBC) preferred bidder to build and
13 Jul 2010
Sport England, the Football Foundation and four national governing bodies have reached agreement over a
17 Dec 2009
England manager Fabio Capello has officially launched Barnet Football Club's (BFC) new 44-acre (17.8-hectare) training
15 May 2009
Three new artificial football pitches have been officially opened by footballer Jamie Carragher at Cheshire
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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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Raphael Cuomo explores the
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health and behaviour change
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survive, we must recognise
that it is a disease service
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us, says the activity advocate
and healthy ageing champion.
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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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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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preferences. Julie Cramer talks
to innovators about how their
products are meeting this demand
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Designing multi-functional
spaces can lead to
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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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