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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
09 Aug 2023
GymNation, which was acquired by JD Gyms in 2022, has opened its latest health club
23 Jun 2023
Pure Gym has launched a fitness championships dedicated to the over-50s with a strong emphasis
18 May 2023
Councils in the UK will benefit from hundreds of thousands of pounds of extra revenue
16 May 2023
The European fitness market has experienced a "strong recovery" after two difficult years that saw
05 May 2023
All gym, health club and other fitness subscriptions and memberships have been made tax-free in
As one of the most energy-intensive industries in the UK, leisure facilities face a critical
23 Nov 2022
A list of 250 of the UK’s most popular gyms on Instagram has crowned Psycle
23 Sep 2022
Athlo, an app enabling consumers to sell unwanted classes has soft-launched in the UK. The
06 Dec 2021
Denmark has been identified as the cheapest country in the world to live a healthy
Code Fitness is co-owned by Steve McClory and Luke Watson and was launched in 2013
29 Oct 2021
A new credit card – launched by wellness platform Paceline – will link financial benefits to physical
13 Oct 2021
Tanni Grey-Thompson has outlined her vision on how the physical activity sector can play "the
Study Active has legally acquired the name “Premier Global” and select Premier Global branding assets
30 Sep 2021
New research by Barclays Corporate Banking reveals that the leisure, fitness, spa and hospitality industries
10 Aug 2021
The number of children enrolled on Parkwood Leisure's Learn to Swim Programme, has reached a
30 Mar 2021
The industry is eagerly awaiting the reopening of health clubs and leisure centres in another
24 Mar 2021
It is unlikely that the UK will see a Work Out to Help Out scheme
22 Mar 2021
The UK parliament will today (22 March) debate the merits of a Work Out to
31 Jan 2021
Fitness business in China's top 18 cities generated US$4.9bn in revenues during 2019, before the
Experience the pinnacle of fitness and luxury at the premier industry event, Sibec EMEA, set
12 Jan 2021
The government needs to provide the fitness and physical activity sector with a plan which
11 Nov 2020
The Gym Group will look to further grow its 183-strong portfolio across England, Scotland and
02 Sep 2020
Announcing the company's half-year results today (2 September), Richard Darwin, CEO of The Gym Group
08 Sep 2020
Carbon, creators of the first AI-powered at-home fitness mirror that tracks workouts, announces the launch
27 Jul 2020
Bans on meal deals, stricter rules on food advertising and printing calorie contents on menus
22 Jul 2020
The UK's industry's leading trade associations have united to call for a major review of
20 Apr 2020
Incorpore and MoveGB are pleased to announce they have entered into a landmark partnership, combining
18 Mar 2020
Leading trade bodies representing the physical activity sector have called on the government to introduce
09 Mar 2020
MoveGB has announced a new partnership with Incorpore, one of the largest suppliers of corporate
14 Feb 2020
A report outlining membership habits and retention in the fitness sector will be released at
07 Feb 2020
Ukactive has called on HM Treasury to invest more in the physical activity sector, in
19 Sep 2019
A Deloitte report has suggested that getting involved in corporate wellness programmes could offer health
01 Dec 2019
Inactivity is described by The Department of Health as the ‘silent killer’ of our generation,
06 Jun 2019
Huw Edwards, acting CEO of ukactive, has called for a "cultural shift" across government, in
12 Feb 2019
Corporate fitness sales specialist Gympass has secured a three-year extension to its deal with premium
15 Jan 2019
Tesco has signed a corporate fitness deal with Gympass, which will see the retail giant's
09 Aug 2018
Budget club operator Buzz Gym has opened its fourth club in Oxford. The 18,000sq ft
11 Jul 2018
Fitness operators looking to improve their member retention should focus on recruiting "knowledgeable, friendly instructors".
03 Jul 2018
Budget club operator Buzz Gym has signed a deal with equipment supplier Life Fitness, which
22 Mar 2018
Low-cost gym operator Xercise4Less will open its 50th UK club in Chesterfied later this year.
31 Aug 2017
Low-cost gym chain Xercise4Less is collaborating with Lancashire Sport Partnership to help people recovering from
22 Aug 2017
ukactive is backing NHS proposals to create 10 “Healthy New Towns” that place physical activity
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“We want our future sports centre to act as a co-location for health and wellbeing services, furthering our connections with GP referrals and digital health platforms”
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Epassi, a provider of workplace wellness benefits, is creating a fitter
and more productive workforce, one membership at a time
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The New Keiser M3i Studio Bike brings ride
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Francesca Cooper-Boden says
health assessment services can
boost health club retention
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The partnership between PureGym and Belfast-based
supplier BLK BOX is transforming the gym floor
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Operators, prepare to revolutionise the way members connect with personal
trainers in your club, with the ground-breaking Brawn platform.
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D2F had updated its brand styling to keep pace with
business growth. MD, John Lofting and operations
director, Matt Aynsley, explain the rationale
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GymNation is pioneering the future of
fitness with software specialist Perfect
Gym providing a scalable tech platform
to power and sustain its growth
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Nuffield Health has worked with ServiceSport UK for more than ten
years, ensuring the equipment in its clubs is commercially optimised
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New research has found BMI to be a highly inaccurate measure of childhood obesity, leading current thinking and policy based on it into question
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“I would say those results, along with the team’s total lack of complacency – their desire to keep improving – have been the two big highlights of my first year ”
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Members are telling us they need support with their mental and spiritual health and the industry is starting to see this need. Now’s the time to fast-track our response
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As more people join clubs to support their mental
health, fitness professionals need to be empowered to
take a holistic approach. Kath Hudson shares useful
tools discussed at the ACE summit on mental health
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Imposter syndrome about a promotion taught the
CEO of SATS that behaving authentically is the most
important part of leadership. He talks to Kath Hudson
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Now mental health is the number one reason for people to join a
health club, do fitness professionals need a grounding in counselling
to offer a more holistic service? Kath Hudson asks the experts
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Egym has announced deals designed to position it for growth acceleration, as Kath Hudson reports
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Basic-Fit – which has been scaling rapidly across Europe –
is considering franchising to ramp up growth further afield
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Industry suppliers are responding to the exponential increase in
consumer demand for strength training with a raft of new and
innovative launches and concepts, as Steph Eaves reports
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