community facilities news
03 May 2026
Activity levels are still rising among English adults according to Sport England’s new Active Lives
13 Apr 2026
The fourth Hello GoodLife Health & Wellbeing Hub has opened in Ireland to meet increasing
08 Apr 2026
Award-winning leisure operator, Everyone Active, has partnered with four-time Paralympic gold medallist Maisie Summers-Newton MBE
28 Jan 2026
Sector representative body, UK Active, has expressed frustration that the UK government has overlooked the
09 Jan 2026
Following protests from the hospitality industry UK chancellor, Rachel Reeves, is looking set to make
04 Dec 2025
Sport England has released the latest Active Lives Children & Young People Report for the
Active Blackpool is deploying Cornerstone Connect, a new digital interface allowing disparate information from multiple
20 Jun 2025
The UK's Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has announced £900 million for major
04 Jun 2025
The National Sector Partners Group (NSPG) has written to the Prime Minister ahead of the
31 Mar 2025
NHS England has released a report, Harnessing the benefits of physical activity that suggests it
Farrer tells government the physical activity sector is critical to fixing the UK’s sluggish economy
01 Feb 2024
Mike Farrar, chair of UK Active, has called on the UK government to deploy the
14 Dec 2023
This summer's Nike’s Open Doors programme saved many children from a summer on the sofa
23 Feb 2023
The government’s energy relief for swimming pools, leisure centres and gyms is scheduled to end
CoverMe, the global leader in fitness workforce management, today launches CoverMe PT, an on-demand personal
24 Nov 2022
A number of UK local authorities and their leisure management partners are in crisis due
08 Jul 2022
A coalition of leading organisations across the physical activity sector has called for radical reform
21 Mar 2022
Lobbying is gearing up in advance of the Spring Budget this week, with UK Active
09 Feb 2021
New Forest District Council in the UK has chosen leisure trust Freedom Leisure as its
11 Nov 2020
Andy Burnham and shadow culture secretary Jo Stevens have joined Paralympic legend Tanni Grey-Thompson in
25 Sep 2020
Chancellor Rishi Sunak's proposals to support the economy through the next six months of the
Elevate is set to celebrate its 10th anniversary in style this June, with organisers confirming
27 Aug 2020
Over 22,000 jobs are at risk across the UK's public leisure sector, out of a
27 Jul 2020
Bans on meal deals, stricter rules on food advertising and printing calorie contents on menus
30 Jun 2020
Almost half of all public health and fitness, leisure and community facilities in the UK,
28 Nov 2019
Emaar have unveiled the masterplan for a new self-contained town in Dubai called the Valley,
16 Sep 2019
New Barnet Leisure Centre in North London has become the second new facility to open
21 Aug 2019
Work has begun on a £20.8m leisure centre in Pontefract in West Yorkshire. The Five
25 Jul 2019
Plans have been submitted for a new leisure centre as part of the wider regeneration
22 Jan 2019
Plans to build a new football stadium for Leamington FC have reached a "key milestone",
04 Dec 2018
Five national governing bodies (NGBs) have pledged to work 'more closely' with the leisure sector
03 Dec 2018
Sandwell Leisure Trust (SLT) has secured a 10-year contract to run a community wellness hub,
13 Sep 2018
A new report has called for a "major culture shift" in order to get older
06 Apr 2018
A £16m community hub and leisure centre has opened in Warrington, Cheshire. Operated by health
07 Mar 2018
Following an international competition, Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) have been appointed to design the Central
20 Dec 2017
Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects (SHL) have been commissioned to design a sports and culture campus
30 Nov 2017
A Yorkshire college has pumped £3.8m (US$5.1, €4.3m) into its sports centre, adding a new
21 Aug 2017
Details of the latest proposed stadium for the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar have
04 Jul 2017
AndArchitects, the studio behind Luton Town FC’s ambitious new stadium plan, has developed a proposal
15 May 2017
The architecture firm of Chilean Pritzker Prize winner Alejandro Aravena have won an international competition
19 Apr 2017
Southern Premier League football club Leamington FC has been given the go-ahead to build a
01 Mar 2017
A planning application for Belfast’s proposed Casement Park stadium has finally been submitted after a
15 Dec 2016
Sydney’s Australian Museum has unveiled a AU$285m(US$214m, €201m, £168.6m) masterplan proposing a new multi-storey extension
25 Nov 2016
A fan zone, a museum, a memorial garden and community facilities will make up parts
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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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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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EGYM has opened a new HQ in Paternoster Square,
London and revealed a range of new launches
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BLK BOX has been reimagining elite performance
spaces for more than a decade. Founder and
former athlete, Greg Bradley, tells us what it takes
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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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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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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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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
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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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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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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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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Vicci Wells shares insights from the
recent Class of 2035 report into
physical activity in Generation Alpha
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