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04 Dec 2025
Sport England has released the latest Active Lives Children & Young People Report for the
16 Jan 2025
More than 700 world-class leaders across health, wellbeing, technology and business are set to gather
05 Dec 2024
Sport England’s Active Lives Children and Young People Survey for the academic year 2023-2024 has
04 Jun 2024
According to new research from Ernst & Young, the gap between female and male engagement
29 Jul 2022
Nearly half (47 per cent) of men employed by fitness companies work in leadership roles
08 Feb 2022
The Global Wellness Summit (GWS) has launched its annual trends report revealing the top 10
One of the biggest mistakes operators in the fitness industry still make is advertising almost
21 Feb 2021
The physical and mental health of women in the UK has been put under unprecedented
03 Nov 2020
A new national campaign aims to bridge the physical activity gender gap between women and
28 May 2020
There has been a "surge in appreciation" of exercise during lockdown, with people turning to
15 Jan 2020
The latest edition of the highly-successful This Girl Can Campaign has been celebrated for its
25 Nov 2019
Nearly half (46 per cent) of the Irish population – around 1.78 million people –
23 Jul 2019
Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH) has combined social media posts and machine learning
Active Blackpool is deploying Cornerstone Connect, a new digital interface allowing disparate information from multiple
07 Jun 2019
Fitness group Les Mills has joined forces with Sport England’s This Girl Can campaign to
11 Apr 2019
A record 62.6 per cent of the adult population are now classed as physically active,
24 Aug 2018
Latest figures from Sport Wales show that a "stubborn" gap still exists in sports participation
07 Nov 2017
Girls are missing out on the benefits of physical activity due to mounting pressures, a
12 Oct 2017
More than one million more men than women are taking up voluntary roles in sport
14 Sep 2017
US publication American Spa is launching a new Women in Wellness Leadership Conference, set to
As healthcare continues to shift towards prevention, there’s a growing focus on helping people stay
26 Jan 2017
Sport England has ushered in a new era of data collection by publishing its first
08 Dec 2016
The growth in participation for hockey, netball and gymnastics has boosted the number of women
05 Oct 2016
Women who play sport are more likely to progress to senior management roles at work,
12 Jul 2016
Equality body Women in Sport has received backing from banking specialist Investec to compile and
08 Jul 2016
Sport England has committed to investing in its This Girl Can campaign for at least
09 Jun 2016
The number of people taking part in sport has reached the same level as the
16 Feb 2016
The number of Welsh adults participating in sport at least three times a week has
05 Feb 2016
London Sport – the network which offers support to local sports providers – has set
12 Jan 2016
As Sport England’s This Girl Can campaign celebrates its first birthday, the quango has released
19 Nov 2015
The gender gap in sports participation in Wales increases as students move on to further
18 May 2015
StreetGames is to lead a push to get women and girls in Wales more physically
16 Feb 2015
The Irish government has increased its investment in the country’s national governing bodies of sport
13 Jun 2013
New figures from Sport England reveal that 15.3 million people now play sport at least
10 May 2013
The town of Bury has received £1.8m funding to run an intensive one-year pilot to
07 Dec 2012
Record numbers of women and men in England are playing sport every week, according to
08 Dec 2011
Latest participation figures from Sport England have uncovered a decrease in the number of 16-
24 Jan 2011
Tottenham Hotspur Foundation (THF) has received £160,000 of funding from Sport England to encourage women
06 Jan 2011
Sport England has named the sport projects that will receive £10m of National Lottery money
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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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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,
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spaces for more than a decade. Founder and
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Consolidation, specialisation and shifting consumer behaviours
are reshaping the sector, say Deloitte and EuropeActive
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