David Bibby will retire from Everyone Active in May after leading the organisation since 2006.

Alliance Leisure utilised its extensive industry expertise and proven resilience to deliver Clay Cross Active, an end-to-end health and wellness facility in Derbyshire

Equinox Hotels, which has a focus on fitness, health and wellness, has announced it will operate a marina lifestyle destination called Equinox Resort Anguilla Port Nimara, the first Caribbean site for the brand.

Everyone Active, Sarah Watts and Sandwell Leisure Trust were among those to be honoured at the UK Active Awards 2025 last night (31 October).

Workplace wellness schemes now go well beyond gym memberships, with increasingly-aware employees looking for wider wellbeing services

Box 12, supplier of boxing studios and programming, is going into voluntary liquidation, with Begbies Traynor Group appointed as liquidator of the current trading company, Box 12 Global Ltd.

The finalists of the UK Active Awards 2025 have been announced today (19 August) following a record number of entries from across the UK’s physical activity sector.

Frame, which operates boutique studios across London, has been acquired by Wellverse Fitzrovia Ltd, owner of the Rowbots brand. The business is helmed by Sam Green and Greg Zimmerman and previously had footballer Gareth Bale as an investor.

A creditors’ voluntary liquidation is in progress at London-based boutique operator, United Fitness Brands (UFB).

The £14 million redevelopment of the iconic Doncaster Dome, one of the youngest listed buildings in the UK, has begun.

Italian fitness equipment manufacturer, Panatta, has won the first round of a legal battle against a Chinese competitor for imitation.

The proposed MBO of Denbighshire Leisure Ltd has stalled following the withdrawal of the private equity investor.

Welsh leisure operator, Denbighshire Leisure Ltd, is undertaking a management buyout from Denbighshire Council for £1.5 million, backed by private equity.

We’ve waited too long for governments to understand and support us, it’s time for the sector to set its own course and innovate to make an impact says Liz Terry

The duo have brought together a wellness trust and a GP federation to create a new model with clinical governance embedded at its heart, as Kate Cracknell reports

Boutique operator, United Fitness Brands is considering closure of a number of its London sites, with its studio in Chiswick already shuttered as of last week.

A new £17m wellness and health centre in Leek, UK, will be funded by a creative mix of financing from the UK government’s regional Levelling Up Fund (£10 million).

Prestatyn Leisure Centre has unveiled some new fitness experiences designed to engage children with physical activity.

PureGym is making a bid for the majority of the assets of Blink Fitness, which was put into Chapter 11 by owner, Equinox, on 12 August.

More than 200 organisations and athletes in the UK have signed an open letter to party leaders to commit to making the nation the most active in Europe after next month’s General Election.

David Beckham and F45 Training have finally settled the breach-of-contract lawsuit around Beckham’s ambassadorial agreement with the boutique fitness franchisor.

Leisure, lifestyle, wellness and entertainment growth investor, Imbiba, has invested in boutique gym brand, 1Rebel's holding company, One Rebel Ltd, after closing a £90 million fund.

Epassi, a provider of workplace wellness benefits, is creating a fitter and more productive workforce, one membership at a time 

North Herts District Council has entered into a ten-year partnership with Everyone Active to run five of its leisure centres from 1 April.

Dawn Tuckwell and Cheryl Hersey, founders of Action Group, have sold the company to their team via an Employee Ownership Trust (EOT).

Richard North has taken up the role of CEO at United Fitness Brands, owner of five boutique fitness brands.

JD Gyms, part of listed company, JD Sports Fashion plc, has sold UAE health club operator, GymNation, to a management buy-out team backed by investors TriCap Investments and Ruya Partners, which has revealed it invested SAR 94 million (US$25 million) private credit into GymNation.

The UK's Good Work Pledge – an employer commitment to workplace wellbeing for employees – has come under the umbrella of CIMSPA.

New-launch health club operator, XF Holdings, has signed its first location in the UK by taking 40,000sq ft at the former Debenhams department store site in Merry Hill, West Midlands. The club – called Xtrafit – will open in 2024.

The top operators, suppliers and facilities from across the physical activity sector were celebrated last night (26 October), as the winners of the prestigious ukactive Awards 2023 were announced at the Royal Armouries in Leeds.