Arvinda Gohil has been appointed CEO of Central YMCA. Gohil joins the health and wellbeing charity from London-based Community Links, where she was CEO.

The winners of the first ever Body Confidence Awards were announced at an event held at the House of Commons in London yesterday (19 April).

A new survey has revealed that 90 per cent of adults believe we care too much about how we look and not enough about how healthy we are.

Exercise Training and Sports Academy (eta) in South Africa has signed up to become the first approved centre in the country to be accredited by health and fitness awarding body Central YMCA Qualifications (CYQ).

Fitness pioneer Rodney Cullum has died at the age of 67. Cullum, a former chief executive of Central YMCA, passed away following a short illness.

Central YMCA’s chief executive, Rosi Prescott, has been appointed to Sport England’s London Sports Board in recognition of the fitness industry’s contribution, alongside sporting bodies, in shaping investment plans to encourage a fitter nation and London’s Olympic strategy.

Minister for sport and tourism, Richard Caborn has praised the work the Register of Exercise Professionals (REPs) is doing and called increased industry support for it a “win-win situation for everyone”.