leisure centres news
30 Sep 2021
New research by Barclays Corporate Banking reveals that the leisure, fitness, spa and hospitality industries
22 Sep 2021
Sports Minister, Nigel Huddleston, has joined gym-goers this morning to kick-off the annual National Fitness
21 Sep 2021
VAT reform, adjustments in business rates and a fitness-led high street regeneration push could see
02 Sep 2021
New data from the ukactive Research Institute shows that for every 100,000 visits to UK
26 Aug 2021
A consultation has been launched to review the current provision of fitness and leisure facilities
25 Aug 2021
EXCLUSIVE Fitness marketplace Hussle has signed a partnership deal with McDonald's, which will see it
30 Sep 2021
CEO of Orbit4, Daniel Jones, says: “There’s no reason traditional gyms and smart gyms can’t
20 Aug 2021
Parkwood Leisure – one of the UK’s leading leisure operators – is offering free access
05 Aug 2021
Harrogate Borough Council has launched a community health and wellbeing company to manage its portfolio
04 Aug 2021
Paralympic champion and ukactive chair Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson has issued a rallying cry for the
30 Jul 2021
Industry body ukactive has joined the chorus of organisations across a number of sectors calling
22 Jul 2021
Planning approval has been granted to what is set to become one of the first
19 Jul 2021
KA Leisure has appointed industry veteran Malcolm McPhail as its interim chief executive. McPhail, who
03 Aug 2021
Life Fitness has unveiled the new Integrity SL, its connected LED console designed for the
12 Jul 2021
Health clubs in England are preparing to return to operations without restrictions, after Prime Minister
07 Jul 2021
There is a "clear case" to evolve the purpose and role played by the UK's
29 Jun 2021
Health clubs, gyms and leisure centres should focus on ability, rather than age, when designing,
15 Jun 2021
Operating a further four weeks at reduced capacity will place serious pressure on English fitness
15 Jun 2021
People experiencing homelessness are being offered free access to leisure centres by Oxford City Council.
11 Jun 2021
The government needs to urgently set out its plans to support physical activity and fitness
13 Sep 2021
As Surge expands its offer with the launch of a third dedicated Electronic Muscle Stimulation
18 May 2021
One in three councils in England are expecting to close at least one of their
17 May 2021
Indoor group exercise can recommence in England and Scotland today (17 May), as part of
15 May 2021
Thousands of health clubs, swimming pools and leisure centres are under the threat of permanent
04 May 2021
Health clubs and leisure centres in Northern Ireland reopened their doors on Friday 30 April,
30 Apr 2021
Sport England has reported a drop of 710,000 in the number of people classed as
22 Apr 2021
With gyms and leisure centres in England reopened, and the rest of the UK due
12 Apr 2021
Health clubs, leisure centres and studios in England have opened today (12 April) for the
09 Apr 2021
Leisure centre operator Everyone Active has formed a partnership with WW (formerly called Weight Watchers),
30 Mar 2021
The industry is eagerly awaiting the reopening of health clubs and leisure centres in another
25 Mar 2021
Welsh leisure trust, Aneurin Leisure (ALT), has announced it’s forging ahead with a £600,000 (US$821,000,
24 Mar 2021
It is unlikely that the UK will see a Work Out to Help Out scheme
23 Mar 2021
A total of £100m has been allocated to 266 local authorities across England, to support
22 Mar 2021
The UK parliament will today (22 March) debate the merits of a Work Out to
19 Mar 2021
David Lloyd will reopen 79 of its clubs in England for outdoor fitness on Monday
17 Mar 2021
The government has said it has no plans to fund a Work Out to Help
17 Mar 2021
Scotland’s health clubs and leisure centres can now begin to prepare for reopening, after First
16 Mar 2021
The vast majority of the population of the Netherlands expect their physical and mental health
12 Mar 2021
Welsh First Minister Mark Drakeford, says the Welsh government is considering breaking the gym sector
04 Mar 2021
The Budget announcement has left the UK's physical activity sector with "unanswered questions" and vowing
28 Feb 2021
Gyms and leisure centres in Scotland are set to open on 26 April, provided that
28 Feb 2021
Hundreds of gyms, swimming pools and leisure centres have been forced to close and thousands
25 Feb 2021
What are the effects on public health of gyms and leisure centres being shut during
HCM Magazine
HCM People
“The market is there for the taking. We can lay the groundwork to prevent the region and continent from joining the statistics of the global obesity crisis by instilling fitness awareness”
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Statistics
This year’s edition of the IHRSA Global Report which addresses performance from 2020, is a valuable record of the tremendous impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the sector, creating a benchmark from which to understand the recovery. Kristen Walsh reports for HCM
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HCM People
We first started talking to KSL over two years ago, so this was not a rushed partnership
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Everyone’s talking about
Booming membership sales, busy suburban clubs and members visiting during
the working day. Operators are reporting it’s good to be back. Kath Hudson finds
out what business has been like since the re-set button was pressed
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Policy
Generations rarely have the opportunity to
reset public opinion and effect behaviour change
for good, but post-pandemic two unequal
movements with a lot in common will be the
focus of governments, says David Minton
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Supplier launch
Life Fitness introduces Integrity SL, the next-generation LED console with intuitive functionality and digital connectivity
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David Minton says the healthy movement industry
is ten times bigger than the health club sector,
and the care industry four times bigger and
ask why we’re not rushing to collaborate?
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Focusing on dieting has failed to offset the rising tide of obesity, say researchers from the Universities of Arizona and Virginia. A focus on fitness gives better health outcomes
HCM magazine
In the last issue of HCM, we checked with big box operators in the UK to see how
trading has been going since restrictions were lifted. This month we turn our attention
to boutiques and urban studios to find out how they’re faring. Kath Hudson reports
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HCM People
Tim Mayer
MDL Fitness“Screens display power generated from each piece of equipment, allowing people to compete against each other for kilowatt hours produced”
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“I’d like to see the gym sector help champion the social prescribing agenda, as a route to getting more people engaged in physical activity”
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“At TGOGC, we believe our own wellbeing is wrapped up in nature and the positive impact we can each have on the health of the planet”
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HCM People
Danielle Obe
Chair, The Black Swimming Association“Our vision is a future with ethnic diversity in aquatics”
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Research firm Qualtrics surveyed 12,157 consumers across
15 countries in seven languages to create the Les Mills 2021 Global
Fitness Report, highlighting the ways consumers are choosing to work
out as we emerge from the pandemic. Jak Phillips reports
HCM magazine
In this issue, we’re focusing on sharing insights and thought leadership to highlight opportunities for the development of the sector in terms of both markets and offerings, says Liz Terry, HCM editor
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Featured supplier news
Power Plate has teamed up with Myzone to provide its community with new class experiences
and
the opportunity to offer rewards based on effort, every time they move.
Featured supplier news
Suffice to say that the pandemic has completely changed the way fitness professionals work
and the way consumers work out – and therein lies opportunity.
Featured operator news
Everyone Active has signed a number of new deals which will see the operator strengthen its
digital product offering, Everyone on Demand.
Featured operator news
Parkwood Leisure, one of the UK’s leading public leisure facilities operators, helped
prevent more than 7,000 cases of stroke, dementia, depression and type 2 diabetes in 2019,
saving the NHS £16 million, a new social value report has shown.
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