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16 Jun 2026
Freedom Leisure and Ebbsfleet Garden City Trust have opened the £13 million Weldon Wellbeing Pavilion
08 Jun 2026
The 20th State of the Industry Report from LeisureDB has revealed a resilient, expanding and
05 Jun 2026
Shocked by the UK loneliness statistics, charitable trust Mytime Active has been doubling down on
15 May 2026
Brio Northgate – formerly Northgate Arena in Chester – has officially reopened following
15 Oct 2025
Johnson Heath Tech (JHT), owner of Matrix Fitness has launched a new European Training Centre
02 Oct 2025
Mark Tweedie has joined the Devon-based Plymouth Active Leisure (PAL) board as a non-executive director
CoverMe, the global leader in fitness workforce management, today launches CoverMe PT, an on-demand personal
25 Jul 2025
According to a study commissioned by GM Active, health intervention programmes provide more than £20,000
23 Jul 2025
Leisure DB has released its State of the UK Swimming Industry Report 2025. In the
04 Jul 2025
EGYM Hussle and SLM have entered into a long-term partnership that will see 182 Everyone
02 Jul 2025
North Herts Council in the UK is set to deliver one of the nation's largest
10 Jun 2025
Sport England has confirmed that Simon Hayes will take over from Tim Hollingsworth as CEO.
05 Jun 2025
The UK fitness industry is growing in terms of members, market value and penetration, according
Active Blackpool is deploying Cornerstone Connect, a new digital interface allowing disparate information from multiple
03 Apr 2025
The UK health and fitness industry is growing exponentially, with revenue up by 8.8 per
31 Mar 2025
Welsh leisure operator, Denbighshire Leisure Ltd, is undertaking a management buyout from Denbighshire Council for
13 Mar 2025
NHS England – the body responsible for delivering public sector health care in England – is
21 Nov 2024
A new £17m wellness and health centre in Leek, UK, will be funded by a
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
As healthcare continues to shift towards prevention, there’s a growing focus on helping people stay
15 Aug 2024
The latest Moving Communities Impact Report from Sport England is out today (16 August) and
08 Aug 2024
Freedom Leisure has merged with 1610, a not-for-profit trust based in the west of England.
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
06 Jun 2024
The UK health and fitness is performing well, especially the private sector, with member numbers,
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
21 Apr 2024
Charitable trust, Mytime Active, has removed all single-use plastic overshoes from its swimming pools and
09 Apr 2024
Oxygen Consulting is about to launch its first UK Padel Report, which investigates this fast-growing
13 Mar 2024
Edinburgh Leisure has appointed Jen Holland as chief executive. She will take over from June
11 Mar 2024
The UK government acknowledged in its recent budget that economic recovery depends on the health
Farrer tells government the physical activity sector is critical to fixing the UK’s sluggish economy
01 Feb 2024
Mike Farrar, chair of UK Active, has called on the UK government to deploy the
12 Jan 2024
Two new research reports have highlighted the impact of the UK's cost of living crisis
09 Jan 2024
Solving the UK's social care problem is the key to overcoming the financial challenges facing
21 Dec 2023
UK Active has launched a programme designed to support the physical activity sector as it
26 Jul 2023
Average charges for an adult swim session have topped £5.00 (US$6.45, €5.83) for the first
07 Jun 2023
The UK fitness industry's market value has reached an all-time high, despite a small drop
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Fitness industry leaders, including UK Active CEO Huw Edwards, will take to the stage at
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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
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Third Space partnered with IndigoFitness to deliver a
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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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EGYM has opened a new HQ in Paternoster Square,
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Record market penetration in the UK
fitness sector masks a deeper shift
around consumer engagement, according
to a report from Grant Thornton and
UK Active, as Liz Terry reports
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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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