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More than 250,000 young people aged between 11-17 years old are at risk of developing skin cancer by using sunbeds, according to research published by Cancer Research UK.
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16 Nov 2009
New quarterly figures released by the government have shown an increase in the number of young people and senior citizens taking advantage of the £140m free swimming initiative.
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27 Oct 2009
Fitness operators in the public sector are more confident of their future prospects now than they were last year, according to a state of the industry report from sporta.
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14 Oct 2009
Wiltshire Council has become the latest UK local authority to remove sunbeds from public leisure centres, following recent research by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC).
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09 Sep 2009
Sports trust Freedom Leisure, in conjunction with Greenwich Leisure (GLL), has today (1 July 2009) taken over the management of leisure facilities in Mid Sussex.
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01 Jul 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
Yorkshire-based Sutcliffe Play has provided a boost to the UK manufacturing industry by combating the current economic downturn.
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15 Apr 2009
Homecraft Rolyan, the UK-based supplier of therapy and paediatric products to hospitals, local authorities and retailers, has acquired the specialist medical sports healthcare group Mobilis Healthcare.
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08 Apr 2009
Mike McCardle has announced that he is retiring from his position as executive secretary at sporta, the representative body for UK leisure and cultural trusts, after five years in the role.
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25 Mar 2009
The Welsh Assembly Government has launched a new four-year strategy designed to increase the number of people walking and cycling as part of their daily lives.
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24 Feb 2009
Management company Serco Leisure has partnered up with London Fitness Group so that customers who use Sercos 39 leisure facilities can also do sessions at The Personal Training Centres (PTC).
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02 Feb 2009
Scottish Labour has decried the Scottish National Party (SNP) for failing to provide school children with ‘free, year-round access to council swimming pools’.
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26 Jan 2009
Graham Farrant, chief executive of Leisure Connection, is set to leave the company and become the first CEO of management consultants PMP.
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05 Jan 2009
A meeting of representatives of local authorities, sports and leisure trusts and management contractors in the East of England has highlighted reservations about the government's Free Swimming initiative.
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08 Dec 2008
Halo Leisure is to upgrade six of the leisure centres that it operates on behalf of local authorities in Herefordshire.
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13 Nov 2008
The DCMS has rebutted claims made by Roger Millward, chief executive of the Swimming Teachers' Association (STA), that the government's free swimming scheme would not benefit people who cannot already swim.
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28 Oct 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
The government has earmarked £140m towards providing free swimming for all at the country’s 1,600 public pools by the 2012 Olympics, part of a legacy plan for the Games aimed at getting two million more adults involved in sport
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06 Jun 2008
Audit Commission Local Government Inspector, Peter Kilkenny, has taken up a six-month secondment with the Rochdale Boroughwide Cultural Trust Link4Life.
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03 Jun 2008
The New Local Government Network (NLGN) has called for all councils in the UK to adopt an obesity strategy.
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27 Mar 2008
A £215m government-backed investment fund is to open its doors to not-for-profit organisations working in sport and health and leisure.
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20 Mar 2008
Brigid Simmonds, chief executive of Business in Sport and Leisure (BISL), has called for the sports sector to be exempted from the forthcoming Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL).
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07 Mar 2008
Jubilee Hall Clubs celebrated its 30th anniversary on 31 January with an event attended by the Lord Mayor of Westminster, Carolyn Keen, and bringing together a number of key stakeholders including representatives from local authorities, Primary Care Trusts and community groups.
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08 Feb 2008
The government has earmarked £30m over the next three years to help the most needy sports colleges build new pitches, install floodlights and provide better drainage so facilities can be used all year and round the clock.
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01 Feb 2008
Serco Leisure has teamed up with the Institute of Qualified Lifeguards to deliver a bespoke pool safety training seminar to staff working at sites across the UK.
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29 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
Legend Club Management Systems has signed a ten year contract with Serco Leisure, a trading division of Serco Plc.
product innovation •
28 Sep 2007
The Amateur Swimming Association (ASA) is almost halfway to reaching its target of accrediting 800 clubs to its Swim 21 scheme by 2009.
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23 Aug 2007
Pendle Wavelengths in East Lancashire is set to unveil its £3m redevelopment on 29 June, which includes the addition of the Inside Spa.
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05 Jun 2007
The value of the UK health and fitness clubs market has reached £3.94bn – a 5 per cent increase since 2002.
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09 May 2007
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