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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 cost of mains water is already a significant overhead to sports centres, and soon,
16 Jul 2021
Vulnerable young people will be given opportunities to take part in sport and physical activity
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
As healthcare continues to shift towards prevention, there’s a growing focus on helping people stay
23 Dec 2019
New figures show that Sport England's playing field safeguarding measures, designed to protect sports provision
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
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
Celebrating its milestone fifth anniversary, W3Fit EMEA returns in 2026 with an unmissable gathering of
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
21 Mar 2018
Sport England has updated and relaunched its guidance on playing fields planning applications, with the
25 Jan 2018
Designs for a world-class aquatics centre have kicked off the race to get Birmingham ready
CoverMe, the global leader in fitness workforce management, today launches CoverMe PT, an on-demand personal
24 Mar 2017
The world governing bodies of football, rugby and hockey have agreed to a set of
06 Dec 2016
Sport England intervention has saved or improved more than 1,000 playing fields over the last
14 Sep 2016
Tom Pursglove, MP for Corby and East Northamptonshire, has been recognised as the Grassroots Parliamentarian
02 Aug 2016
British Cycling has ploughed £10m (US$13.3m, €11.8m) of Sport England money into the development of
20 Apr 2016
Atlanta United FC – the football franchise joining Major League Soccer (MLS) in 2017 –
04 Jan 2016
Sport England has doubled its emergency flood relief fund for sports clubs to £400,000 (US$591,736,
15 Dec 2015
Scottish football club, Aberdeen FC (AFC), has earmarked the start of the 2019/20 season for
07 Dec 2015
Sports clubs at risk of having their playing fields or facilities sold off or closed
23 Nov 2015
A strong financial performance could pave the way for the development of Aberdeen Football Club’s
03 Jun 2015
GLL has made further gains in the south west of England by securing the management
10 Dec 2014
O’Brien Contractors has carried out two flood alleviation projects for specialist sports turf construction and
25 Jul 2014
A cross-party committee of MPs has expressed its concern over the declining number of community
18 Jul 2014
A pioneering project designed to help people with mental health problems in the UK has
20 Nov 2013
Winchester City Council is considering the options for a revamp of the city's 40-year old
18 Jun 2013
A number of people working in the leisure industry have been given awards in the
06 Jun 2013
British Prime Minister David Cameron has announced that local communities will be given £250m (US$386m,
29 May 2013
Sport England has announced a 50 per cent boost to its Protect Playing Fields (PPF)
22 May 2013
A £15m (US$22.65m, €17.49m) indoor water park could be in the works for Enniskillen in
12 Mar 2013
New sport-inspired mixed-use development The:Square3, which will consist of three towers of gold, silver and
16 Jan 2013
Plans have been submitted to build £2.56m sports academy on Burnley's Prairie playing fields in
11 Jan 2013
A new cricket stadium in Rajkot, India is making its international debut today when it
28 Nov 2012
Sport England has released figures which it says prove that its role as a planning
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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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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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Raphael Cuomo explores the
powerful link between addiction,
health and behaviour change
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Designing multi-functional
spaces can lead to
fewer bottlenecks at
peak times. Julie Cramer
investigates the latest kit
and inspiring installations
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Consolidation, specialisation and shifting consumer behaviours
are reshaping the sector, say Deloitte and EuropeActive
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