Purpose Brands has announced the signing of a master franchise agreement with ABFit to take Anytime Fitness to Saudi Arabia.

Under a new annual initiative, the Ignite365 Awards, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) is awarding grants to community projects which are advancing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

A global innovation competition has been launched to find ways to encourage and support more older workers to return or remain in the workplace.

Nationally and globally, the health and fitness sector must strike out and pave the way if we are to address the challenges facing us, advocates ukactive’s Steven Ward

The public health specialist talks to Kate Cracknell about his plans to get GPs in the UK routinely prescribing exercise

In the first of a two-part series on the evolution of ukactive, the organisation’s executive director Steven Ward looks at what’s changed over recent years

Simon Stevens, CEO of NHS England, recently challenged the fitness industry to get involved in preventing lifestyle diseases

Organisations, groups and individuals who contribute to increasing the levels of physical activity across the UK are being urged to take part in a ukactive survey to find out ‘what works’ in getting people more active.

Physical activity has been made a clinical priority for GPs. One of the project’s clinical champions explains how it will work, and why it’s so important

The hundreds of millions of pounds the government is expecting to generate as a result of its soft drinks sugar levy should be pumped into physical activity initiatives outside schools as well as within them, according to Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson.

The prescription of physical activity by medical professionals and increased funding to support the inclusion of refugees are two of several recommendations made in a new grassroots sport report published by the European Commission.

Having taken the US by storm since its launch last week, and with UK users also getting in on the act, Pokémon Go is being held up as an unlikely antidote to physical inactivity.

1Life’s brand transformation has helped it overcome adversity and win back business in the challenging Milton Keynes market

Pure Gym has announced its latest big brand partnership as the UK’s largest gym chain seeks to expand its presence in the growing wearable tech market.

More than eight in 10 people believe that the government should plough more finance into sport and physical activity programmes designed to combat mental health issues.

The NHS must make use of its funding lifeline in George Osborne’s Spending Review to invest in physical activity initiatives that will help safeguard its future, according to ukactive executive director Steven Ward.

The huge media fallout and criticism of the government from the collapse of the charity Kids Company has significantly changed the environment around state funding, says Sport England CEO Jennie Price.

Government cuts to further education budgets are putting key initiatives tackling obesity and physical inactivity at risk, potentially triggering an even bigger health crisis, new research has warned.

The campaign against youth inactivity continues apace, with Active IQ aiming to help physical activity professionals provide safe and stimulating sessions for children under the age of five through the launch of a new qualification.

As part of the ongoing push across the physical activity sector to engage youngsters in exercise from an early age, leisure trust Freedom Leisure is to train its staff in providing fitness classes and gym sessions tailored to teenagers.

Shadow health secretary Andy Burnham believes the coalition has failed to tackle Britain’s inactivity epidemic and has pledged that physical activity would be a priority under a Labour government.

Les Mills has become the latest fitness brand to set its sights on tackling youth inactivity with the launch of its new children’s programme Born To Move.

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.

UK leisure centres are not doing enough to ensure their facilities are accessible for older people with sight issues, causing many to become inactive, according to a new report.

More than 140 UK health and fitness industry figures gathered at the Ricoh Arena in Coventry last week to do business, debate and network at the inaugural active-net conference – organised by Leisure-net Solutions.

The health and fitness sector must continue to highlight - both at government level and with local GPs - the financial benefits of physical activity to achieve a redistribution of public funds, according to ukactive chair Fred Turok.

EuropeActive has set itself the ambitious goal of almost doubling the number of health club members in Europe by 2025 as the health and fitness industry representative seeks to strengthen its credentials as an antidote to the continent’s inactivity crisis.

Health secretary Andy Burnham has announced details of new sports and physical activity schemes that will form part of the government's vision to improve fitness levels throughout the UK.

The Scottish Government is investing £12m into physical activity initiatives in schools and workplaces.

The message that we should all do five sessions of vigorous exercise a week is entirely counter productive, claims health club chain Esporta after conducting a three-year review of the government’s physical activity initiatives.