Pioneering charitable trust, Wave Active, opened a new suite today designed to support older adults and people living with long-term health conditions through adaptive exercise and meaningful social connection.

The CEO of Kore Sandwell details the approach to elevating fitness in a deprived borough

The CEO of Plymouth Active on the area’s strategic plan to use physical activity with public health to tackle inequalities

The duo have brought together a wellness trust and a GP federation to create a new model with clinical governance embedded at its heart, as Kate Cracknell reports

EGYM is transforming fitness programmes in North Northamptonshire

Independent charity, Everybody Health and Leisure, has been awarded the delivery of the One You programme across Cheshire East for an initial three-year period from November.

We’re having a cardio crisis says Liz Terry, and it’s time for the industry to take charge

The new CEO of Edinburgh Leisure talks about plans to build active and thriving communities against a backdrop of council funding shortfalls

A new pilot study – The Prevention and Enablement Model – has shown exercise interventions can deliver economic value

As the physical activity sector works to deepen its relationship with the health sector, a new study has revealed how exercise interventions can deliver proven economic value to the economy.

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

A consultation on social prescribing and other similar health programmes will look to "uncover the physical activity sector's full potential" and define its role in the wider healthcare system, supporting the NHS.

Jo Cherrett on exercise and ageing and Stuart Stokes has advice on exercise referral

The founder of the World Health Innovation Summit explains his vision for achieving a fit and healthy planet by using a global knowledge-sharing platform

Get creative with functional training

Helen Macfarlane, head of active communities at Edinburgh Leisure, tells how the programme changes lives

Neil King, managing director of 1Life, explains the leisure operator’s root and branch transformation since 2013

With dementia a growing concern in our rapidly ageing society, fitness and leisure operators must learn to cater for people with this condition, says Kate Cracknell

From falls prevention to improving explosive power, studies show vibration technology is effective in a wide range of applications

Fitness entrepreneurs Helen and Tony Tite have launched a brand new gym space at their The Core Fitness and Wellbeing Centre in Falmouth, Cornwall.

Advanced instructors at level 3 on the Register of Exercise Professionals (REPs) who are responsible for designing and delivering structured and tailored physical activity programmes for referred patients/clients, or assigning them to an appropriate physical activity, must have a range of knowledge and skills specific to the referral process, specified medical conditions and relevant health risk factors related to physical activity participation.