playing field news
30 Aug 2024
Friends from the leisure industry have been paying tribute to editor and lobbyist Jonathan Ives
14 Jun 2024
The Park Playground, has opened its first Immersive VR franchise in Porto, Portugal. The Porto
14 Dec 2023
This summer's Nike’s Open Doors programme saved many children from a summer on the sofa
The Fortis Championships, the interclub fitness competition at Everyone Active, enjoyed a second successful year
03 Dec 2023
New insight from UK quango, Sport England has found that healthy life expectancy in England
06 Oct 2022
Myzone is exploring Web3 and metaverse possibilities through a partnership with digital fitness company OliveX.
Active Blackpool is deploying Cornerstone Connect, a new digital interface allowing disparate information from multiple
The cost of mains water is already a significant overhead to sports centres, and soon,
28 Feb 2022
Myzone is kicking off a new partnership with Farm Fitness as its official heart rate
30 Jul 2021
Industry body ukactive has joined the chorus of organisations across a number of sectors calling
16 Jul 2021
Vulnerable young people will be given opportunities to take part in sport and physical activity
24 May 2021
Lisa Starr, principal of Wynne Business and 35-year spa and wellness industry veteran, has launched
13 May 2021
Myzone has announced it's partnering with Wigan Warriors as the rugby club’s official heart rate
CoverMe, the global leader in fitness workforce management, today launches CoverMe PT, an on-demand personal
24 Mar 2021
It is unlikely that the UK will see a Work Out to Help Out scheme
18 Mar 2021
The Gym Group saw its revenues cut by nearly half during the pandemic, a direct
15 Feb 2021
ukactive has published six 'policy calls', which it says are crucial in order to help
07 Oct 2020
Belgian football team Club Brugge has appointed architects B2Ai and SCAU to develop designs for
12 Mar 2020
A new initiative has been launched to engage and empower women working in the UK
04 Mar 2020
Sport Ireland will invest a record €36m in all levels of sport during 2020. The
As healthcare continues to shift towards prevention, there’s a growing focus on helping people stay
26 Feb 2020
More than 100 sports clubs and organisations have already received grants from an emergency storm
28 Jan 2020
The UK government is looking to create more physical activity opportunities for children by helping
23 Dec 2019
New figures show that Sport England's playing field safeguarding measures, designed to protect sports provision
30 Oct 2019
Each year ACSM’s Health and Fitness journal releases the top fitness trends for the following
25 Oct 2019
Waechter Architecture has created a 20,000sq ft (1,900sq m) hotel and spa complex called Society
25 Jul 2019
The Cricket World Cup is set to provide English cricket a participation boost, as the
24 Jun 2019
Conceptual designs have been revealed for Birmingham's Alexander Stadium, which are set to transform the
11 Jun 2019
World governing body FIFA has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the United Nations
23 Apr 2019
Sportswear giant Adidas has developed what it calls the world's first "100 per cent recyclable
12 Feb 2019
The City of Chicago's Department of Planning and Development (CPD) has greenlit plans to develop
17 Dec 2018
Building work is set to begin in January 2019 on three community football hubs in
23 Oct 2018
Active Lives study shows group fitness classes and adrenaline sports are on the increase, Exeter
19 Oct 2018
The Detroit West Riverfront regeneration project has been awarded an additional $50m (€43.6, £38.8m) grant
11 Oct 2018
Three new floodlit 3G artificial grass pitches, along with male and female changing facilities, car
25 Jul 2018
English Premier League club Liverpool FC has confirmed plans to redevelop its academy site in
04 Jun 2018
Greenwich Leisure Limited (GLL) and Finesse Leisure have finalised their merger, which will see GLL
31 May 2018
Wearable technology company Myzone has secured a partnership deal with fitness tech and services company
29 Mar 2018
Plans to revitalise a 19-mile strech of the Lower LA River have been revealed, with
21 Mar 2018
Sport England has updated and relaunched its guidance on playing fields planning applications, with the
16 Mar 2018
Andy Nash has resigned from his role as a director of The England and Wales
25 Jan 2018
Designs for a world-class aquatics centre have kicked off the race to get Birmingham ready
24 Nov 2017
Sarah Leiter, of the Goalball Women’s GB Team, has been lauded at the Woman of
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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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Third Space partnered with IndigoFitness to deliver a
bespoke training space for its new club at The Whiteley
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SnowDome Fitness has added 50 per cent more space with cutting-edge Technogym solutions
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Starpool supports Olympic champion Marcell Jacobs, says Riccardo Turri
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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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EGYM has opened a new HQ in Paternoster Square,
London and revealed a range of new launches
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Active IQ is calling for greater accountability in online fitness advice with the launch of a new trustmark
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Strength training is evolving,
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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
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us, says the activity advocate
and healthy ageing champion.
He talks to Kate Cracknell
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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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Raphael Cuomo explores the
powerful link between addiction,
health and behaviour change
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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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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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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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Chair of UK Active’s Independent Council and GM at 3-1-5“There are so many dedicated people in the independent sector – they work hard because they’re passionate about changing lives”
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Active Blackpool is deploying Cornerstone Connect, a new digital interface allowing
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