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31 Mar 2026
Duncan Jefford has been announced as the new managing director of Everyone Active. Current MD,
Across the UK, local authorities are facing the same challenge: ageing leisure facilities, restrictive layouts
13 Nov 2025
According to the latest Moving Communities Impact Report visits to leisure centres are rising and
23 Oct 2025
Physiologist and co-founder of Future Practice and Pillar Wellbeing, Oli Patrick opened the HCM Summit
08 Oct 2025
European operator, Go Fit has announced record profits and the investment of €150 million in
03 Jul 2025
The much anticipated Fit for the Future: 10 Year Health Plan for England reveals ambitious
CoverMe, the global leader in fitness workforce management, today launches CoverMe PT, an on-demand personal
11 Jun 2025
Energy costs have pushed Active Nation into liquidation, despite the charity reporting the strongest trading
06 Jun 2025
UK Active and Swim England are urging the government to provide support for swimming pools
31 Mar 2025
NHS England has released a report, Harnessing the benefits of physical activity that suggests it
29 Nov 2024
Recognising the challenges facing local authorities, the Labour government has announced plans to tackle local
01 Aug 2024
Swimming pools need to be repositioned so they're prized as assets rather than considered a
25 Jul 2024
Sector leaders in the UK have collaborated to create the Physical Activity Leadership Network that
One of the biggest mistakes operators in the fitness industry still make is advertising almost
18 Jun 2024
More than 20 organisations have joined together in the UK to form the Swim Alliance,
05 Jun 2024
Leisure development specialist, Alliance Leisure, has appointed industry veteran, David Stalker, as advisor to the
02 May 2024
Consultancy and change architects, Miova, have welcomed industry veteran Mark Tweedie on board. Tweedie had
15 Apr 2024
Having redefined the model of public-private collaboration in Spain, Go Fit is now expanding into
08 Feb 2024
Iberian operator, Go fit, has confirmed its plans to move into the Italian market next
12 Jan 2024
Two new research reports have highlighted the impact of the UK's cost of living crisis
Celebrating its milestone fifth anniversary, W3Fit EMEA returns in 2026 with an unmissable gathering of
09 Jan 2024
Solving the UK's social care problem is the key to overcoming the financial challenges facing
04 Jan 2024
Pocket Rocket Marketing has launched a training academy to deliver education to the health, fitness
14 Dec 2023
This summer's Nike’s Open Doors programme saved many children from a summer on the sofa
08 Dec 2023
A proposed change to the way councils organise the operation of their leisure facilities – including
26 Jul 2023
Average charges for an adult swim session have topped £5.00 (US$6.45, €5.83) for the first
16 Jun 2023
The UK’s Department for Transport (DfT) is likely to miss the targets it has set
18 May 2023
Councils in the UK will benefit from hundreds of thousands of pounds of extra revenue
21 Mar 2023
Health and wellbeing should be at the heart of all government policymaking according to a
15 Mar 2023
In an announcement made today in advance of tomorrow's Spring Budget (15 March), the UK
14 Feb 2023
The Parkwood Group has taken over leisure management contracting business 1Life Management Solutions Limited (1LMS
10 Jan 2023
A report issued by the UK Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has accused Sport England
19 Dec 2022
New laws designed to step up protection against terrorism at the UK's leisure facilities are
14 Dec 2022
Sport England has released the Future of Public Sector Leisure report which looks at how
24 Nov 2022
A number of UK local authorities and their leisure management partners are in crisis due
Health and wellbeing are in retreat, stalling the UK’s economy says former Bank of England economist
14 Nov 2022
The declining health of Britons is stalling the nation’s economic growth. This is the key
22 Sep 2022
The UK government has announced it will subsidise energy bills by at least 50 per
15 Sep 2022
The Tarka Leisure Centre in North Devon, which reopened in June after a £15m revamp,
12 Sep 2022
As the UK’s new prime minister Liz Truss prepares an energy bailout, UK Active has
07 Sep 2022
4 Global has expanded its Data Hub (DataHub) platform into Europe. The announcement was made
02 Sep 2022
St Albans City and District Council has signed a ten-year deal with Sport and Leisure
15 Jun 2022
Key organisations from the UK’s leisure industry are lobbying the government for financial support to
25 May 2022
The Gym Group’s (TGG) plans and profit forecasts were presented to analysts and investors during
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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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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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Find out how your gym can tap into the corporate wellness boom
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SnowDome Fitness has added 50 per cent more space with cutting-edge Technogym solutions
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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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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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Stephen Price
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“Working in public health over the last few years has lit up parts of my brain again”
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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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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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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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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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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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UK market penetration has risen to 18 per cent – one of the highest
globally, yet with 100 per cent of people seeing benefits when they
exercise, how high could it go? Kath Hudson asks the experts…
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Researchers have long known that the brain changes as a result of exercise. Now researchers believe this process is actually driven by the brain
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