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The health and fitness sector must continue to highlight - both at government
level and with local GPs - the financial benefits of physical activity to achieve
a redistribution of public funds, according to ukactive chair Fred Turok.
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30 Apr 2014
Health and fitness club operator LA Fitness has announced the winners of its eighth annual LA awards.
news •
15 Nov 2005
TAG, the charity which focuses on training disadvantaged 18-24-year-old jobseekers for employment, has appointed Jane Taylor as operations manager.
news •
21 Feb 2011
Physical activity sector representative body ukactive
is to elect a new board
early in the new year with fewer members, following a
formal review of the
organisation’s governance structure.
news •
16 Dec 2014
LA Fitness has announced that it is set to buy Crown Sports, the owner of 21 Dragons health clubs, for £38.5m.
news •
20 Feb 2006
Oxygen Freejumping has set its sights on reaching 30 locations across the UK by 2018,
after securing £10m in funding to fuel growth.
news •
22 Feb 2016
Long-standing FIA board directors Andy Jackson, FitPro’s business development director, and Fred Turok, chair of LA Fitness, have been appointed FIA vice chairs to support the recently-promoted FIA chair, Harm Tegelaars.
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19 Sep 2006
TAG, the youth employment charity working within the fitness and active leisure industries, has launched TAG University, an online resource designed to help exercise professionals develop core business skills.
news •
25 Jul 2011
Fred Turok, founder and chair of LA Fitness, has been unanimously elected chair of the Fitness Industry Association (FIA). Turok will replace current chair Harm Tegelaars, who will take up the role of president of the European Health and Fitness Association (EHFA).
news •
10 Jul 2007
David Stalker has been officially appointed the new chief executive officer of the Fitness Industry Association (FIA).
news •
12 Apr 2011
Following its acquisition of Crown Sports last month, LA Fitness has sold 15 of the group’s Dragon’s health clubs to Robert Tchenguiz’s R20 investment vehicle in a £50m sale and leaseback deal.
news •
02 Mar 2006
Transforming a Generation (TAG) has ensured that more than 300 young people, who were claiming Job Seekers benefits, are now in training to be fitness instructors and/or in work.
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10 May 2010
The chairman of LA Fitness, Peter Jacobs, has confirmed that the company is reviewing a number of serious expressions of interest for the company.
news •
15 Dec 2004
The founders of the Transforming a Generation (TAG) initiative, aimed at unemployed, disenfranchised teenagers and young adults, are looking to expand the scheme following a successful pilot period.
news •
31 Mar 2009
LA Fitness chief executive Fred Turok has announced that he intends to lead the fitness industry into a period of consolidation and launch new concepts to attract consumers currently ‘underserved’ by the health club market.
news •
22 Aug 2005
A recent government initiative could see overweight people and heavy smokers having to diet or give up cigarettes in return for medical treatment.
news •
05 Jun 2003
LA fitness has rolled out its new high intensity, 20-minute signature classes
across its UK and Ireland clubs, following their popularity at the operator's new
premium LAX facility in central London.
news •
21 Jan 2014
Oxygen Freejumping has announced plans to bring the bounce to Leeds this summer with
a new £1.5m site in the city’s Cardigan Fields Leisure Park.
news •
26 Apr 2016
Trampoline park operator Oxygen Freejumping is opening a 30,000sq ft (2,787sq m)
operation at The O2 – the first of three new sites due to open around London.
news •
20 Sep 2017
Trampolining company Oxygen Freejumping has announced that its second venue will
open at a retail park in Southampton in December.
news •
17 Sep 2015
Harm Tegelaars, a board director and current treasurer of the Fitness Industry Association (FIA), has decided to retire from his roles at the association.
news •
16 Jun 2010
Oxygen Freejumping, a new venture helmed by David Stalker and Fred Turok, has sprung
open the door of London’s first trampoline park in West Acton.
news •
20 Jul 2015
LA Fitness has unveiled plans to open a chain of weight loss centres alongside announcing results ahead of market expectations.
news •
15 Oct 2004
Trampoline park operator Oxygen Freejumping has acquired Air Space Trampoline in a multi-
million pound cash deal, bringing its total number of sites to 10.
news •
01 Aug 2017
Health club operator Greens Health and Fitness has partnered with Transforming a Generation (TAG), the charity training disadvantaged young people to be fitness instructors.
news •
10 Sep 2010
A new report by Public Health England claims that people from lower socio-
economic groups tend to have poorer access to environments that support
physical activity such as parks, gardens or safe areas to play.
news •
05 Nov 2013
Fred Turok, chair of the Fitness Industry Association (FIA), has pledged that the health and fitness industry would double any investment made by the government to improve the nation’s health.
news •
15 May 2008
The Fitness Industry Association (FIA) has promoted its chief operating officer Dave Stalker to the role of executive director.
news •
08 Dec 2009
The only listed health club company left in Britain, LA Fitness, has agreed a £140m takeover by private equity group MidOcean.
news •
09 May 2005
ukactive veterans David Stalker and Fred Turok are aiming to stay anything but grounded as they
prepare for life after the physical activity organisation, by embarking on a mission to create a
nationwide trampolining empire.
news •
16 Mar 2015
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