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10 Apr 2026
After celebrating its 25th anniversary last year, Fusion Lifestyle has called in administrators after a
18 Dec 2025
Accessing medical and health support via health club memberships is seeing growing consumer demand in
04 Nov 2025
Parkwood Leisure has launched a 12-week pilot programme designed to support individuals transitioning from medication-led
20 Aug 2025
The finalists of the UK Active Awards 2025 have been announced today (19 August) following
23 Jul 2025
Leisure DB has released its State of the UK Swimming Industry Report 2025. In the
09 Apr 2025
More than 70 per cent of children are being taken out of swimming lessons before
As healthcare continues to shift towards prevention, there’s a growing focus on helping people stay
27 Jan 2025
The Bannatyne Group is the latest UK health and fitness operator to announce a partnership
04 Oct 2024
Some 800 people attended the UK Active Awards ceremony last night (3 October) in Birmingham.
14 Aug 2024
Fitness First has created a premium membership offering by deploying HealthHero’s full suite of services,
09 Aug 2024
Telehealth specialist HealthHero has announced a partnership with UK operator, Parkwood Leisure. The new offering
01 Aug 2024
Swimming pools need to be repositioned so they're prized as assets rather than considered a
23 Jul 2024
Finalists for the UK Active Awards 2024 have been announced. Winners from across the 14
One of the biggest mistakes operators in the fitness industry still make is advertising almost
15 Jun 2024
More than 200 organisations and athletes in the UK have signed an open letter to
26 Jan 2024
Dawn Tuckwell and Cheryl Hersey, founders of Action Group, have sold the company to their
17 Jan 2024
Physiotherapy patients are being offered treatment in leisure centres thanks to a tie-up between London
06 Dec 2023
An Independent Commission for Healthier Working Lives, supported by the Health Foundation, is being established
14 Aug 2023
Parkwood Leisure, in partnership with its subsidiary companies Legacy Leisure and Lex Leisure, has launched
23 Feb 2023
The government’s energy relief for swimming pools, leisure centres and gyms is scheduled to end
Elevate is set to celebrate its 10th anniversary in style this June, with organisers confirming
14 Feb 2023
The Parkwood Group has taken over leisure management contracting business 1Life Management Solutions Limited (1LMS
20 Dec 2022
Parkwood Leisure has invested more than £1m over the past 12 months in new fitness
15 Sep 2022
The Tarka Leisure Centre in North Devon, which reopened in June after a £15m revamp,
07 Jul 2022
It was a night to remember at the 2022 ukactive Awards for Parkwood Leisure, as
01 Jul 2022
The best in the business from across the physical activity sector were honoured last night
Parkwood Leisure, one of the UK’s leading leisure operators, has reached the milestone of teaching
20 Aug 2021
Parkwood Leisure – one of the UK’s leading leisure operators – is offering free access
10 Aug 2021
The number of children enrolled on Parkwood Leisure's Learn to Swim Programme, has reached a
09 Oct 2019
Parkwood Leisure has launched a programme of workshops, aimed at making its staff more aware
25 Sep 2019
MoveGB is a collaboration-based platform, but being a platform, one of the common worries we
29 May 2019
Facility operator Parkwood Leisure has secured a 15-year lease to run Grange Leisure & Community
01 Mar 2019
Peter Fitzboydon has stepped down from his managing director position at Parkwood Leisure after less
05 Feb 2019
Parkwood Leisure has been awarded a 10-year contract to operate leisure facilities on behalf of
28 Dec 2018
Construction work on the Broughton Astley Leisure Centre in Leicestershire is set to begin in
22 May 2018
YMCA Awards has become the UK’s first awarding organisation to achieve accreditation from the Chartered
09 May 2018
New research has shown that those taking part in supervised resistance training benefit from vast
13 Mar 2018
Parkwood Leisure, one of the UK’s most experienced providers of leisure management working in partnership
06 Mar 2018
Management company Parkwood Leisure has named Andy Farr as its new business development director. Farr
17 Feb 2018
A futuristic leisure centre, featuring an indoor street and winter garden running through the spine
23 Jan 2018
Plastic cutlery and cups will be removed from all cafés in leisure centres run by
08 Jan 2018
Tony Hewitt, the founder and executive chair of the Parkwood Group, which owns Parkwood Leisure,
19 Dec 2017
More than 80 leisure facilities across the UK will overhaul their food and beverage offering
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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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Starpool supports Olympic champion Marcell Jacobs, says Riccardo Turri
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SnowDome Fitness has added 50 per cent more space with cutting-edge Technogym solutions
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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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Find out how your gym can tap into the corporate wellness boom
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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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New launch, Salus House, elevates boutique wellness with
high service levels and a partnership with Technogym
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Performance Health Systems, manufacturer of Power Plate,
has a new CEO, with an ambitious vision for the company
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us, says the activity advocate
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Celebrating its milestone 5th anniversary, W3Fit EMEA returns in 2026 with an unmissable
gathering of the Health & Fitness industry’s most influential leaders.
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Elevate is set to celebrate its 10th anniversary in style this June, with organisers
confirming the event’s largest-ever drinks reception as registrations continue to run more
than 10% ahead of last year.
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