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Legend announces the industry’s first open leisure
management platform for all 2,000 of its clients
HCM issue 5 2019
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
The Digital Marketing HUb (DMH) is a CIMSPA initiative, which has secured an
additional grant from Sport England to fund the Digital Marketing Hub.
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03 Nov 2022
A consultation has been launched to review the current provision of fitness and
leisure facilities
available for disabled people.
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26 Aug 2021
New Eurobarometer research results, published by the European Commission, show
conclusively that women remain less active than men.
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28 Sep 2022
EuropeActive has appointed Kai Troll as its new CEO. He has a background in the trade
association sector and a strong interest in sport and physical activity.
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20 Feb 2024
4 Global – a partner in the Moving Communities initiative – has completed an initial public
offering (IPO) on the London Stock Exchange's Alternative Investment Market, valuing the
business at £24m.
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11 Jan 2022
Women-only swimming sessions could hold the key to improving numbers, according to an initiative
by leisure centre operator Serco.
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21 Nov 2017
SkillsActive has submitted its business plan to the Learning and Skills Council, for the development of a National Skills Academy (NSA) for Sport and Active Leisure.
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04 Feb 2008
Greater Manchester has exceeded its target of getting one million people to be regularly
active, which is expected to save more than £640,000 (US$817,200, €732,700) in NHS
costs in the first year alone.
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15 Jun 2017
A research project by spinal injury charity Aspire and the University of Birmingham will
help establish best practice for training and employing disabled people in the fitness
industry.
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11 Nov 2017
A new Sport-England funded programme has engaged more than 15,000 school children
in regular activity by upskilling lunchtime assistants and other school staff to deliver
sessions.
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19 Apr 2016
Every local authority will qualify for a free review funded by Sport England as part of Moving Communities
HCM issue 2 2022
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
A new approach to physical education (PE) – based on physical literacy and “fun fitness” –
could transform school sport and help all children embrace physical activity.
news •
14 Nov 2016
Secretary for Culture, Media and Sport Ben Bradshaw has hailed Gloucester's GL1 leisure centre an example to the rest of the country following its success in introducing the government's free swimming scheme.
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03 Nov 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
Bletchley Leisure Centre - a new £21m health and leisure complex near Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire - has opened to the public.
news •
21 Jan 2010
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.
news •
09 Oct 2007
A new training initiative is aiming to 'retool the physical activity workforce' to help
businesses recover after lockdown. Funded by Sport England, the £1.5m ReTrain scheme has been
set up to support employers by providing free training for staff, enabling them to work in new roles.
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09 Sep 2020
DC Leisure is encouraging disabled visitors to use its local authority leisure centres now that half of them have received accreditation from Inclusive Fitness Initiative.
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11 Oct 2005
Leisure operator DC Leisure has received accreditation from the Institute of Leisure and Amenity Management (ILAM) for being the first leisure contractor to introduce the institute’s Active programme.
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22 Dec 2005
Us Girls has launched a new national scheme designed to improve the wellbeing of young women in
England through increased sports participation. Us Girls Alive will add to the existing Us Girls sports
participation programme – led by sport development charity StreetGames.
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21 Nov 2012
An increase in the number of people attending classes and gyms resulted in Sandwell
Leisure Trust (SLT) boosting its 2015/16 turnover by £3.3m (US$4.1m, €3.7m).
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10 Oct 2016
A new campaign looks to get more disabled people physically active by making sport and fitness
activities more accessible.
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09 Nov 2018
Ever-closer collaboration between leading physical activity organisations such as ukactive
and Sport England will be key to driving the sector further up the political agenda.
news •
29 Jun 2016
Children at UK schools which have adopted Active Recovery Curriculums feel fitter and stronger
than their peers – both physically and mentally – and also do better academically.
news •
01 Nov 2021
A new leadership learning initiative aims to transform knowledge sharing in the physical
activity sector.
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06 Jun 2019
Health clubs and fitness operators have
an “enormous role to play” in helping to
achieve the physical activity goals set
out in the government’s recent Sports
Strategy, according to Sport England
CEO Jennie Price.
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23 Mar 2016
Blink Fitness has urged its members to put ‘mood above muscle’ as part of a month-long
initiative in which the US gym chain’s mirrors will be covered to help people think about
fitness differently.
news •
10 Jun 2016
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his grandfather – would go down
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