Industry veteran, Martyn Allison, provides a reality check with the reminder that so many people are still priced out of physical activity. He calls for cross-sector collaboration to tackle the problem

The UK government has announced a National Youth Strategy, backed by £500 million, to rebuild youth services, train youth workers and other professionals to support them.

The three-year Opening School Facilities initiative smashed all targets according to a report into its impact, which is being fed back to the UK government.

The UK government has got behind Joe Wicks’ latest initiative – Activate, a new animated series of five minute workouts for kids.

The UK government is briefing journalists that a major pivot to prevention can be expected when the 10 Year Plan for the National Health Service is due unveiled on 3 July.

The much-anticipated UK government’s Spending Review (SR) 2025 was delivered yesterday (11 June), which sets departmental budgets until 2028-9.

The UK’s government spending review was underwhelming. Now we’re counting down to see if the NHS 10-year Health Plan will deliver for the sector, says Liz Terry

Commentators are speculating that the Labour government is considering disbanding the Department of Culture, Media and Sport.

Lisa Nandy, secretary of state at the UK government's Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) gave a speech to the sector this week at a summit hosted by Manchester’s Science and Industry Museum. She spoke about plans to use her department to unlock growth.

The UK's National Sector Partners Group (NSP) has called on the new government to pledge to make the UK the most physically active nation in Europe, which it says would deliver an additional £3.6 billion in economic growth, £1 billion in NHS savings and £71 billion in wellbeing benefits..

While there’s much talk of fitness and healthcare working closer together, research shows that there are still many barriers to overcome

CIMSPA has published its 2024-2030 strategy, Releasing the Power of Our Profession, which sets out how the sector’s 600,000-strong workforce can be supported and professionally recognised.

With the sector’s widespread view that the UK government’s new physical activity and sport strategy lacks vision, Martyn Allison dissects the finer details, while industry thought leaders also comment

We need to change the language we use as a sector if we are to be understood and taken seriously by governments and investors, says David Minton

The founder of GLL reflects on the challenges he faced setting up the UK’s first charitable trust for leisure services

A £40m pilot for the delivery of weight loss drugs, such as Wegovy, is creating opportunities for the sector

As the sector in the UK welcomes more members and sees record market value, Leisure DB’s David Minton explains The State of the UK Fitness Industry Report 2023

The new chair of UK Active talks to Kate Cracknell about his vision for the sector and opening up his address book to connect with senior players in health

The health and fitness industry is making exciting progress towards integration with the health service says Liz Terry

Lucy Frazer has replaced Michelle Donelan as culture secretary at the UK's newly-named Department for Culture, Media and Sport.

A report issued by the UK Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee has accused Sport England of losing track of how £1.05bn in grants have been spent since 2016 and only accounting for £450m.

A number of the UK's local authorities and their leisure management partners are in crisis due to rising energy costs, with around 40 per cent saying leisure centres and swimming pools will be closed or services reduced before March 2023 unless they receive immediate confirmation of additional grants from the government.

The UK’s National Audit Office has published findings of its investigation into the sector, indicating new policies are needed. Martyn Allison does a review

The CEO of Women in Sport talks about Big Sister, a new programme that’s working to overcome period poverty and support more adolescent girls to get and stay active

Can exercise professionals gain the wider trust of the medical community, and play a pivotal role in the wellbeing agenda?

UK Active has called on the government to offer "greater clarity" on how it plans to help the health and fitness industry entice members back to its sites – especially in city and town centres.

UK Active has sent letters to three government departments, asking for them to provide the fitness and physical activity sector with direct financial support.

Nadine Dorries, the recently appointed secretary of state for digital, culture, media and sport, has promised that the government will place sport and physical activity "at the heart of pandemic recovery".

A cross-party DCMS Committee in the UK has called on the government to launch a Work Out to Help Out campaign to incentivise people to get involved in organised sport and physical activity.

Industry body ukactive has joined the chorus of organisations across a number of sectors calling the government's new National Disability Strategy a "missed opportunity".