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The damaging effect of the energy crisis due to government inaction and the impact on the
health of the UK population saw Tanni Grey-Thompson lobbying the government in the House
of Lords recently.
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24 Jan 2023
Members of Parliament in the UK and their teams are taking part in a physical activity
challenge
hosted by UK Active and Myzone between 2 and 30 November.
news •
07 Nov 2022
UK Active and the Churchill Fellowship – the operating name of the Winston Churchill Memorial
Trust – are searching for innovative exercise-inspired projects that could transform people’s
mental and physical health.
news •
17 Sep 2022
UK Active and Nike have launched the 2022 Open Doors programme. The scheme provides
children
and young people with the opportunity to connect, be active, eat well and have fun at twelve
selected schools across London, Birmingham, Manchester and Liverpool during the summer
holidays.
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20 Jul 2022
Although 70 per cent of people with
disabilities say they want to be more
active, they are put off by the physical,
logistical and psychological barriers
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A special task force has been established to boost physical activity opportunities for
people
with disabilities.
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23 Jun 2022
Mike Farrar has been announced as the new chair at UK Active. His tenure will
start in August 2022 when he takes over the position from Tanni Grey-Thompson, following her
six-year stint
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15 Jun 2022
People with disabilities and long-term health challenges want to be active. How can we remove barriers, asks Kath Hudson
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Tanni Grey Thompson has outlined her vision on how the physical activity
sector can play "the fullest
role in improving the health of the nation".
news •
13 Oct 2021
ukactive’s Kenny Butler is leading the UK’s industry review of social prescribing. He explains how you can get involved in driving this new agenda
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Tanni Grey-Thompson has announced she will hand over her role as ukactive chair in
August 2022, after more than six years driving the success of the organisation from the
heart of government.
news •
30 Sep 2021
Sports Minister, Nigel Huddleston, has joined gym-goers this morning to kick-off the annual National
Fitness Day, with thousands of free activities taking place across the UK.
news •
22 Sep 2021
The best in class of the physical activity sector have been revealed at the ukactive Awards
2021.
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07 Sep 2021
A consultation has been launched to review the current provision of fitness and
leisure facilities
available for disabled people.
news •
26 Aug 2021
Paralympic champion and ukactive chair Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson has
issued a rallying cry for
the UK to become the most active nation in the world by 2030.
news •
04 Aug 2021
Thousands of health clubs, swimming pools and leisure centres are under the threat of permanent
closure, unless the government provides increased financial support for the sector.
news •
15 May 2021
The physical and mental health of women in the UK has been put under
unprecedented pressure by
the pandemic, according to Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson.
news •
21 Feb 2021
Thousands of COVID-related deaths could be prevented if successive governments had tackled the
country's obesity crisis in time, according to Dame Sally Davies.
news •
18 Nov 2020
A Parliamentary committee will hold a debate on COVID-19 restrictions on gyms and sport on
Monday 23 November.
news •
11 Nov 2020
Andy Burnham and shadow culture secretary Jo Stevens have joined Paralympic legend Tanni Grey-
Thompson in calling on the government to support the physical activity sector by providing ring-
fenced financial support.
news •
11 Nov 2020
Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, has been confirmed as a keynote speaker for the
ukactive National Summit taking place today (Wednesday 4 November).
news •
04 Nov 2020
Physical activity body, ukactive, has revealed plans to create a new sector standard for
active leisure, to act as a product and service quality trademark.
news •
04 Nov 2020
Industry body, ukactive, is encouraging all fitness operators in England to contact their
local MP and to request them to join the campaign to keep gyms, health clubs and
leisure centres open during the forthcoming "Lockdown 2".
news •
03 Nov 2020
Exercise has been voted the number one way the public can help the NHS – ahead of
paying
taxes and cutting down on smoking and drinking.
news •
21 Sep 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.
news •
21 Sep 2020
The UK's fitness industry can finally get back to business on Saturday 25 July, following the
government's announcement today that gyms and leisure centres can reopen their doors
to the public.
news •
09 Jul 2020
Boutique gym operator, Gymbox, faced threats of legal action over its bid to reopen on 4 July,
with CEO, Marc Diaper deciding not to proceed as a result.
news •
06 Jul 2020
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced that gyms may be able to reopen in a ‘couple of weeks’.
Johnson made the comments during an interview with radio station LBC on 3 July.
"We are going to reopen gyms as soon as we can do it in a COVID-19-secure way and I think that the
date for reopening gyms at the moment, if we can do it, is in just a couple of weeks’ time," Johnson
said.
news •
03 Jul 2020
Industry body ukactive has today (1 July) hosted a delegation of government and public health
officials on visits to a number of gyms and leisure centres.
news •
01 Jul 2020
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