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The town of Bury has received £1.8m funding to run an intensive one-year pilot
to get more girls and women active and to tackle the gender gap in sport. Funded by National Lottery
funding from Sport England, the scheme will run highly visible activities across the borough including in
local parks and leisure centres.
news •
10 May 2013
Belfast-based company Farrans Construction has been appointed by North Down Borough Council (NDBC) to deliver a new leisure complex in Bangor.
news •
27 Aug 2010
Work has started on a new £11m leisure centre for West Bromwich due to open in
summer 2014.
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11 Feb 2013
Dame Sarah Storey, triple gold medalist at this summer’s Rio 2016 Paralympic Games, has
been confirmed as one of the high profile speakers at this year’s ukActive National
Summit.
news •
27 Oct 2016
Argos has been announced as the lead partner for National Fitness Day (NFD) 2016, with
the retail giant set to significantly spread the reach of the “most active day of the year.”
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08 Jul 2016
A new multi-million pound sports complex has opened its doors to the public in Aberdeen, north east Scotland, on the site of the city's former Chris Anderson Stadium.
news •
25 Aug 2009
Scape and Willmott Dixon have launched the new version of their standardised
build concept Sunesis for the UK's leisure industry, following its success in
the education sector.
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26 Jun 2012
Portsmouth City Council has appointed Broadwater Leisure to redevelop and manage the Mountbatten Centre and manage the adjacent Gymnastic Centre on a 25-year contract.
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29 Jan 2008
Basildon Council and Basildon Renaissance Partnership are putting together a funding package and planning application for a £35m sports village development at Gloucester Park in Essex.
news •
14 Jul 2006
British Triathlon has launched a social and digital campaign to encourage 10,000 people
across the UK to visit their local gym or leisure centre and give the sport a go.
news •
09 Aug 2016
Cardiff-based gym design and installation company, Absolute Performance, has been awarded
the contract to design, supply and install three gyms for Team GB for the 2024 games in
Paris.
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15 Feb 2024
Women and girls across Hounslow will be helped to get into sport, after being awarded a £250,000 share
of from Sport England’s £5.1 m Community Sport Activation Fund.
news •
23 May 2013
A new £14m sports and complementary therapy centre has been opened at the Royal National College for the Blind in Hereford as part of a £23.5m campus redevelopment project.
news •
21 Apr 2009
The London 2012 Olympic legacy investment designed to improve physical education at primary
schools has failed, according to a study.
news •
23 Jun 2022
Researchers examined the impact of £2.2bn of school sports funding following London 2012 and find the majority has gone to private contractors, with little upskilling happening in schools
HCM issue 7 2022
Sports governing bodies will have to demonstrate projects that have a “meaningful,
measurable impact” on improving people’s lives in order to receive funding as part of the
government’s wide-ranging sports strategy.
news •
16 Dec 2015
A record 62.6 per cent of the adult population are now classed as physically active, according to the
latest figures from Sport England's Active Lives Survey.
news •
11 Apr 2019
An £80m (US$99.2m, €93.2m) sports and entertainment complex could be built in
Guildford to replace the current leisure facility because of its roofing problems, which have
existed since it first opened more than 20 years ago.
news •
21 Nov 2016
Sport England has announced a new strategy aimed at getting one million more people to participate in sport by 2012, capitalising on the London Olympic and Paralympic Games.
news •
10 Jun 2008
Technogym’s Pure Strength range allows regular members to train like elite sportspeople
HCM issue 11 2015
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
Ten years after the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, the London Legacy
Development Corporation (LLDC) is awarding new operating contracts for the London Aquatics
Centre and Copper Box Arena.
news •
15 Dec 2022
Double Olympic rinks, gym and dance studio will drive physical activity at new Lee Valley Ice Centre
London has a new double Olympic skating centre following a £30m investment by the Lee
Valley Regional Park Authority.
news •
06 Jun 2023
Seven athletes supported by GLL (Greenwich Leisure Ltd) through its sports foundation
came home from the Rio 2016 Olympic Games with medals.
news •
25 Aug 2016
BLK BOX was the partner of choice for the design, fit out and install of GB Taekwondo’s new
high-performance gym, as the team prepares for the Olympics in Paris 2024.
promotion •
22 Nov 2023
A report issued by the UK Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee has accused Sport England
of
losing track of how £1.05bn in grants have been spent since 2016 and only accounting for
£450m.
news •
10 Jan 2023
The chancellor George Osborne has announced that the government will increase the investment in apprenticeships by more than 50 per cent - leading to an extra 75,000 people a year to finding employment through the apprenticeship scheme by 2014.
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20 Oct 2010
Becca Douglas takes a look at some of the initiatives aiming to deliver a legacy from last year's London Paralympic Games
HCM issue 6 2013
Laura Dagg takes a look forward to the highlights of this year's Leisure Industry Week, which takes place in Birmingham later this month
HCM issue 9 2013
The new director of health and wellbeing at Public Health England talks to Steven Ward about his mission to tackle the ‘wicked problem' of physical inactivity
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CEO: Edinburgh Leisure“Edinburgh Council will have a £143m budget shortfall by 2028/29 and so must find ways to become more efficient”
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