How can the sector best attract and engage with the tech-savvy Gen Alpha?

Eighty nine per cent of 18 to 24-year-olds are doing some form of strength exercise weekly and that 17 per cent of the UK population is now a gym member.

The MD of Benefit Systems tells Kate Cracknell how the company gives access to 5k facilities through its MultiSport card

Children’s and young people’s activity levels are back to pre-pandemic levels, confirms Sport England in its annual Active Lives Children and Young People Survey 2021-2022.

Sport England has launched its own on-demand fitness platform, with the hope of inspiring teenage girls to get active through digital physical education (PE) lessons.

The UK government has confirmed that the PE and Sport Premium will continue to run during the academic year 2021-22, resulting in around £320m being invested in physical activity.

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COVID-19 has changed the world as we know it. We predict the top 20 trends in fitness for the coming year

A look at some of the impressive digital offerings clubs have created in lightning fast time, to keep members active at home

HCM magazine editor, Liz Terry, outlines the key trends, influences and opportunities set to shape health and fitness, from outdoor fitness to pandemic insurance

The Global Wellness Institute’s Move to be Well: The Global Economy of Physical Activity report uncovers the activity segments that can deliver and monetise more participation. Leonor Stanton takes a look at the data for HCM.

UK children will be offered a greater opportunity to take part in 60 minutes of daily sport and physical activity under new government plans.

The founders of iMoves and winners of ukactive's ActiveLab competition on providing PE and dance packages to schools

A new approach to physical education (PE) – based on physical literacy and “fun fitness” – could transform school sport and help all children embrace physical activity.

Structured fitness programmes have the potential to help children become more physically active, stronger and more agile than conventional PE lessons, according to the results of a new pilot study.

How can clubs improve their performance in the critical area of yield management?

Is fitness testing in UK primary schools the answer to the ticking timebomb of childhood inactivity and soaring obesity rates?

Steven Ward and Tanni Grey-Thomspon, executive director and chair of ukactive, are challenging the activity sector to strive for greater things. Kate Cracknell reports

Virgin Active is teaming up with the University of Bedfordshire and primary school teachers across the country to explore pioneering teaching methods and new approaches to getting children active.

Only half of seven-year-olds are meeting recommended physical activity guidelines of 60 minutes per day, according to a landmark ukactive report which lifts the lid on youth inactivity.

Far from setting people up to be physically active for life, school PE lessons can put people off sport forever, according to research carried out by the University of Birmingham. Of the 1,800 people surveyed for The Big PE Conversation, half said school PE didn’t help them to become more physically active. One quarter of males and one third of females said they never, or rarely enjoyed, PE.

Several physical activity organisations are among the nominees for the 2014 Body Confidence Awards – an event bidding to tackle the growing problem of body image anxiety through education, health, media and advertising.

A new collaboration the Women’s Sport Trust charity and international exercise equipment manufacturer Matrix Fitness is bidding to raise the profile of role models in women’s sport in the UK.

A free school in Luton is the first in the UK to be set up by a leisure trust. Rhianon Howells finds out about its healthy approach

A report released by Ofsted recommends the government develop a new national strategy on PE and sports in schools, with teaching in more than a quarter of schools not improving pupils’ fitness.

A new report published by the Women's Sport and Fitness Foundation (WSFF) has revealed that school PE lessons are "putting off" girls from participating in physical activity.

Olympic sprint kayaker Tim Brabants has helped mark the opening of a new £1.8m indoor fitness facility at Kirk Hallam Community Technology and Sports College, Derbyshire.

Children’s fitness equipment supplier ZigZag has acquired ActivKids, an activity programming company which delivers classes to primary schools across the UK.

Active Luton, the trust which operates 11 sports and leisure facilities in Luton – including dual use facilities at Lea Manor Recreation Centre and Luton Regional Sports Centre – has invested money received from the Big Lottery’s Community Investment Fund in 32 ZigZag Machine Dance Platforms.

Brentwood Leisure Trust has installed a ZigZag Machine Dance system at Brentwood Leisure Centre thanks to funding from Essex County Council’s Community Initiative Fund.