leisure sector news
10 Apr 2026
After celebrating its 25th anniversary last year, Fusion Lifestyle has called in administrators after a
20 Mar 2026
Places Leisure has announced a new strategic partnership with COPA as the preferred apprenticeship delivery
18 Dec 2025
Sport England’s continuous improvement tool, Quest, is being updated for 2026 with two new products
13 Nov 2025
According to the latest Moving Communities Impact Report visits to leisure centres are rising and
09 Oct 2025
Ecommerce company Excalibur Group has announced the strategic acquisition of spa deal website Spabreaks.com, enhancing
Celebrating its milestone fifth anniversary, W3Fit EMEA returns in 2026 with an unmissable gathering of
21 Sep 2025
Snozone, Europe’s largest indoor ski centre operator is seeking acquisition opportunities in the UK health
16 Sep 2025
Elevate, the UK’s largest trade show for the physical activity, fitness and leisure sectors, has
Dr Paul Bedford has announced the return of the Retention Convention, which will take place
10 May 2025
Commentators are speculating that the Labour government is considering disbanding the Department of Culture, Media
18 Nov 2024
UK Active has written to chancellor, Rachel Reeves, asking for measures to offset the cost
30 Aug 2024
Friends from the leisure industry have been paying tribute to editor and lobbyist Jonathan Ives
One of the biggest mistakes operators in the fitness industry still make is advertising almost
17 Jul 2024
Community Leisure UK (CLUK) and The Richmond Group of Charities have joined forces to support
01 Jul 2024
Village Hotels has changed hands following a deal between the owner – an affiliate of
19 Jun 2024
With the UK General Election imminent, industry strategist, Martyn Allison, says it’s time for the
18 Apr 2024
The fitness sector’s pivot to active wellbeing is being discussed in a new weekly podcast,
09 Apr 2024
Oxygen Consulting is about to launch its first UK Padel Report, which investigates this fast-growing
28 Mar 2024
The first annual Private Sector Benchmarking report was released today (27 March). A collaboration between
CoverMe, the global leader in fitness workforce management, today launches CoverMe PT, an on-demand personal
13 Mar 2024
The British Standards Institution (BSI) has introduced safeguarding guidelines to protect children in out-of-school settings,
12 Jan 2024
Two new research reports have highlighted the impact of the UK's cost of living crisis
13 Nov 2023
The UK's Good Work Pledge – an employer commitment to workplace wellbeing for employees – has come
14 Aug 2023
Parkwood Leisure, in partnership with its subsidiary companies Legacy Leisure and Lex Leisure, has launched
26 Jul 2023
Average charges for an adult swim session have topped £5.00 (US$6.45, €5.83) for the first
14 Mar 2023
The UK government has declared that boys and girls should have equal access to sports
02 Feb 2023
The second phase of the UK’s MSK (musculoskeletal) health hub pilot will see the service
24 Jan 2023
The damaging effect of the energy crisis due to government inaction and the impact on
11 Jan 2023
The UK government has announced it will be scaling back financial support for businesses as
10 Jan 2023
A report issued by the UK Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has accused Sport England
14 Dec 2022
Sport England has released the Future of Public Sector Leisure report which looks at how
24 Nov 2022
Mark Braithwaite is to join Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council as chief operating officer. Braithwaite, formerly
12 Sep 2022
As the UK’s new prime minister Liz Truss prepares an energy bailout, UK Active has
04 Jul 2022
A two-year research project will look to find ways to transform the UK's physical activity
01 Jul 2022
At UK Active’s Active Uprising event yesterday (30 June) in Birmingham, Hattie Jones, the head
15 Jun 2022
Key organisations from the UK’s leisure industry are lobbying the government for financial support to
15 Jun 2022
Oliver Lee OBE will be taking the position of CEO at Places Leisure from July.
More than 100 industry delegates met in person at the annual active-net event at Eastwood
21 Mar 2022
Lobbying is gearing up in advance of the Spring Budget this week, with UK Active
Jamie Cartwright is a co-owner of Hatton Boxing and founder of BOX12. In 2021 Jamie
10 Feb 2022
Cutting VAT for the pandemic-hit fitness industry could have saved businesses and jobs – just as
18 Jan 2022
The Workforce State of Mind Survey, now in its second year, has begun to gather
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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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Find out how your gym can tap into the corporate wellness boom
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Third Space partnered with IndigoFitness to deliver a
bespoke training space for its new club at The Whiteley
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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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Starpool supports Olympic champion Marcell Jacobs, says Riccardo Turri
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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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The industry is embracing consumer-facing tech. Now it’s time to
streamline back-of-house systems with Orbit4, says Daniel Jones
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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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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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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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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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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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The Breath Coach“I experienced a blissful feeling of joy I hadn’t felt since I was a kid”
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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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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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Consolidation, specialisation and shifting consumer behaviours
are reshaping the sector, say Deloitte and EuropeActive
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New insight from Deloitte and Grant Thornton shows record growth, but the real shift is towards identity and perceived value, revealing opportunities to deepen engagement with members
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“Strength training has moved from the margins to the mainstream.”
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