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Researchers examined the impact of £2.2bn of school sports funding following London 2012 and find the majority has gone to private contractors, with little upskilling happening in schools
HCM issue 7 2022
The London 2012 Olympic legacy investment designed to improve physical education at primary
schools has failed, according to a study.
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23 Jun 2022
If the fitness industry grew its membership base from 1 per cent to 15 per cent of members aged over 65, it would double in value and size, says David Minton
HCM issue 9 2021
The GLL Sports Foundation, which supports athletes in their bid for Olympic Gold, had its best Games ever in Tokyo
HCM issue 8 2021
The Advanced Wellbeing Research Centre is working to improve population health
HCM issue 7 2020
Sheffield Hallam University’s Advanced Wellbeing Research Centre (AWRC) will officially open on 24
January.
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23 Jan 2020
Set to open later this year, the Advanced
Wellbeing Research Centre aims to
improve population health
HCM issue 2 2019
The Advanced Wellbeing Research Centre (AWRC) will open its doors at Sheffield Hallam University
later this year.
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21 Jan 2019
Corporate health and wellbeing services provider Westfield Health has appointed David
Capper as its
CEO.
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21 Aug 2018
Keynote speaker Eddie ‘the Eagle’ Edwards
talks to us about going to the Calgary
Winter Olympics and the power of sport
HCM issue 1 2018
The £7m Thorncliffe Health and Leisure Centre in Sheffield – which forms part of the
National Centre for Sport and Exercise Medicine (NCSEM) – has opened to the public.
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26 Jul 2016
The boss of the UK’s only listed gym chain has called on
planning authorities to reconsider
the role that gyms have to play in creating healthier and
resurgent high streets.
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13 Jul 2016
The £7m Thorncliffe Health and Leisure Centre in High Green, Sheffield is set to include
specialist health and research facilities as part of the National Centre for Sport and
Exercise Medicine (NCSEM) when it opens in June.
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31 Mar 2016
Having conquered the country’s capital, Britain’s booming boutique
fitness sector looks set
to spread its wings beyond London in the year ahead.
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07 Mar 2016
The UK’s outdated town planning laws are blocking fitness studios from boosting physical
activity on the country’s high streets, according to the UK boss of Barry’s Bootcamp.
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01 Mar 2016
A Sport England-funded Olympic legacy swimming pool takes centre stage at the newly-opened
Royton Leisure Centre in Oldham.
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27 Oct 2015
In a far-sighted move, Bridport Leisure in Dorset has just launched the first exercise on
prescription programme for people living with cancer, or who have had cancer.
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13 Mar 2015
Bridlington in East Riding of Yorkshire is the first town in the UK to benefit from
the Olympic legacy pool scheme that has seen Olympic-standard training pools
dismantled and relocated across the country.
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20 Mar 2014
Oldham Council has unveiled plans for a new £15m flagship leisure facility in its
town centre, with hopes the complex could attract major televised sporting
events.
news •
29 Jan 2014
Oldham Council unveiled plans for a new sports centre in Royton this week,
which
is slated to open in autumn 2015, coinciding with the closure of an existing
facility.
news •
24 Jan 2014
Prominent health and fitness organisations have given their backing to
Health Club Management magazine’s call for an industry-wide lobby
against the government’s decision to remove physical activity from the
Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF).
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22 Jan 2014
Work is expected to start on the £20m redevelopment of a multipurpose leisure
facility in Bridlington, following plans put forward by East Riding of Yorkshire
Council.
news •
13 Jan 2014
Sheffield has edged closer to realising its Olympic legacy programme after plans
were unveiled for a new £7m sports centre and swimming pool.
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13 Dec 2013
A Sheffield sports venue is to play a key role in a major investment project
aimed at making the city one of the most active in the UK.
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04 Dec 2013
The pair behind the Sported Foundation talk about fulfilling the legacy promise of the 2012 Games
HCM issue 11 2013
With studies showing UK physical activity levels are dropping, it's time for a national strategy, says ukactive CEO David Stalker
HCM issue 10 2013
ukactive CEO David Stalker reports on how the latest round of spending cuts are likely to affect the physical activity sector
HCM issue 8 2013
SkillsActive has welcomed the positive results shown in a recent government report on sport and
regeneration but also calls for more to be done to continue the Olympic legacy.
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22 Jul 2013
The first of a planned series of community facilities inspired by the legacy of London 2012 has proven
successful as a way to increase levels of physical activity in communities.
news •
27 Mar 2013
A Sport England Olympic legacy grant will pay for almost one third of the
£500,000 cost to modernise facilities at Green Bank Leisure Centre in
Swadlincote in Derbyshire.
news •
29 Jan 2013
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