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Virgin Active has become the official health club of the Lawn Tennis Association (LTA). As part of a three
year agreement, Virgin Active will introduce a number of LTA tennis products to its members - including
Cardio Tennis, a group fitness class.
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18 Mar 2013
The government is to invest £1bn in youth sport as part of a 10-point plan to ensure a lasting legacy from
the London 2012 Games.
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19 Sep 2012
Wyre Borough Council (WBC) is due to consider proposals to invest £7.4m in improving the borough's
leisure centres.
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07 Sep 2012
Plymouth's new £46.5m Life Centre, which has been created to provide a regional
centre of sporting excellence, has been officially opened by the local authority
today (22 March).
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22 Mar 2012
Get Active London, a new online database of sports clubs, venues and activities
spanning the entire capital, has been developed in a bid to help increase
participation in regular exercise.
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22 Nov 2011
Former sports minister Richard Caborn has claimed that plans to increase sports participation in the UK as part of legacy plans for London 2012 are in danger of "failing completely".
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21 Sep 2011
Sport England and the Fitness Industry Association (FIA) have announced the signing of a new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to help increase sporting participation.
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01 Jul 2011
A £5.8m renovation of Aylesbury's Aqua Vale Swimming and Fitness Centre has moved a step closer after councillors deferred and delegated final approval for the scheme.
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03 Feb 2011
Scottish sports minister Shona Robison has helped mark the start of work on a new £31.5m swimming pool being developed in Dundee.
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01 Feb 2011
The Fitness Industry Association (FIA), in association with The Leisure Database Company (TLDC), is offering FIA members a free membership profiling service to measure and increase participation locally.
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05 May 2010
Winners of the 2009 FLAME Awards have been announced at the Fitness Industry Association's (FIA) annual summit and conference in Bolton this week.
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18 Jun 2009
Sport England has called for "everyone in sport" to do more to increase participation by people with learning difficulties after announcing that it would be investing £200,000 at this year's Special Olympics GB Summer Games.
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26 May 2009
The Welsh Assembly Government is looking to encourage people in Wales to become more active as part of new measures to tackle rising obesity levels and to improve health.
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08 May 2009
A new £6.44m leisure centre, which is currently being built at Forest Fields, Nottingham, has received a £1m grant from Sport England's Free Swimming Capital Modernisation Development Programme (SCMP).
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16 Apr 2009
London mayor Boris Johnson has pledged to invest £15.5m in grassroots sports as part of a bid to improve health and well-being in the capital.
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30 Jan 2009
The Get Oxfordshire Active (GO Active) project has been launched as part of an effort to increase participation in physical activity in the county.
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23 Jan 2009
North Country Leisure (NCL) Tynedale is to implement a £336,000, three-year initiative to provide a range of accessible sports and activities to increase activity levels across Tynedale and in Kielder Water & Forest Park.
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05 Nov 2008
Sheffield International Venues (SIV) has invested £35,000 into providing specialist fitness equipment for people with disabilities at Concord Sports Centre in Sheffield.
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04 Sep 2008
The results of a survey detailing public participation in cultural, leisure and sporting activities between 2006-7 have been released by the DCMS.
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28 Aug 2008
The FirstHealth Center for Health & Fitness in Pinehurst, NC has reported a five point decrease in member attrition while using services provided by Retention Management.
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03 Jul 2008
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.
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10 Jun 2008
Sporting groups in East Cambridgeshire have received £28,500 of funding from Sport England this week.
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02 May 2008
Technogym and the Youth Sport Trust have launched a campaign to encourage schools to provide new health and fitness activities for young people in England.
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05 Mar 2008
The Mayor of London is to establish a collaborative London-wide body to reduce levels of childhood obesity in the capital in line with government targets.
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08 Feb 2008
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
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair has launched a sports foundation carrying his name in the constituency he represented as a member of parliament for 24 years.
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23 Nov 2007
Business In Sport and Leisure (BISL), the umbrella organisation for the sport, leisure and hospitality industry, is calling for more government funding for leisure-related Private Finance Initiative (PFI) schemes.
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09 Oct 2007
The Welsh Assembly Government has allocated £5m to provide free swimming for children and the elderly in the region.
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14 Jun 2007
Stewart Harris, the chief executive of sportscotland, the sports council for Scotland, has called for greater collective responsibility in tackling the issues facing Scottish sport.
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07 Dec 2006
On 1 July, £400,000 of new health and fitness facilities will officially open to the public at the Stoke on Trent and North Staffordshire YMCA.
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28 Jun 2006
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