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Places Leisure aims to enlighten our communities about the benefits of a healthy lifestyle in collaboration with local authorities, customers and partners both within our thriving community hubs and out in the wider community.
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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.
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27 Oct 2023
Residents of Wolverhampton, UK, can earn gym discounts and food vouchers for exercising and
eating healthily through the new Better Health: Rewards app.
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28 Feb 2023
The government’s energy relief for swimming pools, leisure centres and gyms is set to end on
31 March leaving thousands set for closure or service cuts.
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23 Feb 2023
Mark Braithwaite is to join Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council as chief operating officer. Braithwaite,
formerly CEO of leisure management contracting firm 1Life, will start with Sandwell on 11 January.
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24 Nov 2022
The best in the business from across the physical activity sector were honoured last night (30
June) as the winners of the ukactive Awards 2022 were announced at Birmingham’s ICC.
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01 Jul 2022
A special task force has been established to boost physical activity opportunities for
people
with disabilities.
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23 Jun 2022
Oliver Lee OBE will be taking the position of CEO at Places Leisure from July. He will replace
Paul McPartlan, who announced in April that he would be leaving the organisation.
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15 Jun 2022
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
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A new physical activity programme called Big Sister has been launched in the UK to help girls
embrace activity during puberty and reduce the rising numbers who turn away from exercise at
secondary school.
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23 May 2022
One legacy of the pandemic is the extra support the nation now needs to get healthy, as well as rehabilitation support for long COVID sufferers. Kate Cracknell looks at the early response from the industry with some of the programmes underway
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Places Leisure has opened the doors to its new £22m leisure centre in Camberley following an 18-
month construction project.
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02 Jul 2021
The physical activity sector can step up as an essential service by helping people during their recovery from COVID-19. HCM takes a look at some emerging initiatives
HCM issue 2 2021
HCM talks to suppliers and operators about how the aggregator market is changing in response to demand
HCM issue 2 2021
Les Mills has launched a new digital content solution to support health and fitness
operators in engaging their members outside the four walls of their clubs and studios.
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22 Jan 2021
Places Leisure’s Bulmershe Leisure Centre is providing its community with new fitness kit in a major upgrade
HCM issue 10 2020
A new national campaign aims to bridge the physical activity gender gap between women and men
by empowering daughters and mums to get active together.
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03 Nov 2020
More than 100 sport and physical activity bodies have sent a letter to UK Prime Minister Boris
Johnson, urging him to give the sector a central role in the nation’s COVID-19 recovery plans.
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21 Sep 2020
Paul McPartlan has moved from Nuffield Health to take up the role of CEO of Places for
People Leisure. McPartlan will take up the reins on Monday 3rd August 2020, replacing
Sandra Dodd who retires in September, after 25 years with the company.
news •
23 Jul 2020
Leisure operator, Places Leisure, has revealed the results of a survey, which
sought to gauge the attitudes of its members towards reopening.
news •
18 Jun 2020
Latest figures from Swim England show that 14.2 million adults – 31 per cent of those
aged 16 or older – cannot swim one length of a 25m pool.
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23 Oct 2019
The senior management team at
Places Leisure discuss commercial
diversification and reveal a new launch
HCM issue 10 2019
Sir Hugh Robertson, chairman of the British Olympic Association and a Deputy Lieutenant
of Kent, attended Dover’s new £26m district leisure centre on 4 March 2019 to formally
unveil a plaque marking the opening of the centre in late February.
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07 Mar 2019
Construction work is set to begin later this spring on a £38m leisure centre and 50m swimming pool
in Winchester.
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11 Feb 2019
The £26m Dover District Leisure Centre is set to open its doors on February 2019.
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04 Jan 2019
A £28m leisure centre is set to open tomorrow (28 November) in Eastleigh, bearing the
name of operators Places for People.
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27 Nov 2017
A new £25m leisure centre, currently under construction in Eastleigh, Hampshire, is set to open to
the public before the end of the year.
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11 Sep 2017
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Relationship Officer - Physical Activity and Sport City of Westminster Council
£40,005 - £43,824pa + local govt pension + benefits
Westminster, London, UK
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