UK Active and This Girl Can have published a new guide to help fitness and leisure facilities communicate their policies and procedures around sexual harassment and intimidation.

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

Sport England releases the latest Active Lives Children and Young People Report for 24-25, as Kath Hudson reports

The World Health Organization (WHO) has released two global reports calling on governments around the world to strengthen health taxes on sugary drinks and alcohol.

How can clubs best serve Gen Alpha? Vicci Wells shares insights from the Youth Sport Trust study

Sport England has released the latest Active Lives Children & Young People Report for the 2024-25 academic year.

London yoga studio operator, MoreYoga, teamed up with The Lonely Girls Club last month to offer a Winter Wind Down Workshop.

Female health and customised exercise programmes are now firmly part of the mainstream, says Liz Terry

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.

UK Active, Sport England, CIMSPA and Women’s Aid have published new resources to help fitness and leisure facilities continue to create safer spaces for women and girls to be active.

The exercise physiologist and research scientist is leading on brain health at Orangetheory. She talks to Kath Hudson

With a mental health crisis among young people, how can the industry help? Kath Hudson asks the experts

Digital exercise platform for teenage girls, Studio You, has teamed up with Nike to launch a series of new exercise videos to improve the school PE experience for girls in England.

The UK government has announced £100 million of new funding to support grassroots sports and physical activity, targeting deprived areas and supporting participation among under- represented groups.

Loughborough University in the UK has teamed up with Vitality to launch a Women in Sport Research and Innovation Hub.

As interest in women-only workout spaces booms, we talk to the operators working to develop a new generation of facilities by understanding women’s common needs

Don’t wait for the government, or the NHS, to provide the solutions or the budget, just get on with it was a key takeaway from this year's Active Uprising conference.

Insurance company, Vitality, has published a report into the exercise habits of British women, and explores the critical barriers preventing many from meeting physical activity guidelines.

Sport England’s Active Lives Children and Young People Survey for the academic year 2023- 2024 has found that one of the biggest determinants of physical activity levels is children having positive attitudes towards exercise.

The co-founder of Longevity, Neil King, and Andy Molyneux of Everybody Health and Leisure address key industry issues

News editor of HCM, Kath Hudson, taps the zeitgeist at the recent W3Fit EMEA industry event that was held in Sardinia, Italy

David Langridge applauds YouTube for restricting access to toxic fitness content for teenagers. Eric Durak says operators must gear up to welcome GLP-1 users

We must base research on biological rather than chronological age if we are to accurately measure the impact of exercise, says Liz Terry

From brain training and body sculpting, to ‘gesture tech’ and binaural beats, HCM predicts the trends that will impact and shape the sector

Female health expert, The Well HQ has teamed up with training provider, The Fitness Group, to launch education courses aimed at upskilling PTs in female health.

In a bid to get girls more active, Nuffield Health has launched a campaign, Move Together, encouraging parents to exercise with their daughters.

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.

HCM Handbook editorial director, Liz Terry, predicts key trends, influences and opportunities set to shape the sector, including nocturnal living, gesture tech, brain training and small cost concepts

Recent research by Nuffield Health and Sport England shows women are less active than men. Kath Hudson looks at some of the work underway to close the enjoyment gap

Despite high energy costs, inflation and interest rates, there’s evidence to show 2023 was the year the industry bounced back. A host of CEOs, talk about the current trading landscape and their plans for the next 18 months