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Physical activity body ukactive has partnered with developer Barking Riverside Limited (BRL)
to help create a mixed-use residential project with a focus on healthy, active lifestyles.
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09 May 2019
Saturday, 8 June 2019 will mark the eighth annual Global Wellness Day (GWD), and
thousands of locations across the world – including hotel/spa chains, fitness centres, yoga
studios, associations, foundations, hospitals, schools and senior living centres, along with
governments, businesses and celebrities – will be celebrating GWD with free, non-
commercial, health and wellness activities for the public.
news •
09 May 2019
New operators are queuing up to enter the booming
franchise market. Tom Walker reports
HCM Handbook 2019
Leisure operator Everyone Active has secured management deals for 11 new sites.
news •
08 Apr 2019
The Gym Group has tackled investor chatter about stagnation in market penetration by
collaborating with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) to release an independent report
showing the number of low-cost gyms could double by 2026 to between 1200 and 1400
locations.
news •
19 Mar 2019
The founder of Xponential Fitness, Anthony Geisler, discusses the secrets behind his success, and tells us why franchising is key to crushing the big box chains
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A community initiative which seeks to turn towns and cities into "giant playgrounds" for children – in
order to get them physically active – is set to expand across England.
news •
23 Oct 2018
Francine Davis, commercial and strategic
development director; Rebecca Passmore,
operations director; and Eve Sukhnandan,
director of human resources, talk to
Kate Cracknell about how the business is
developing and the launch of a new concept
HCM issue 8 2018
Finnish architect Oopeaa has won a competition to design and create floating sea pools for
public use in coastal cities and towns around the world, with the first to be rolled out in
Oulu in the north of Finland.
news •
18 Jul 2018
Hertfordshire based organisation Herts Sports and Physical Activity Partnership (HSP) ran
its annual week-long campaign to encourage women and girls in the area into physical
activity last month, with a view to “raising the profile of female sport and physical activity
and decreasing the inactivity epidemic”.
news •
02 Jul 2018
Giving town and cities more powers to decide over taxation and public spending could
improve public
health across the UK, an influential new report has found.
news •
19 Jun 2018
ukactive is backing NHS proposals to create 10 “Healthy New Towns” that place physical
activity at the heart of community life.
news •
22 Aug 2017
Fitness hub The White Studio is adding classes and an extra venue to its schedule – just two
months after its launch in Bedford, Bedfordshire, UK.
news •
07 Jul 2017
The Olympic rowing champion discusses his new gym – Zacs Fitness – which provides functional training in small groups
HCM issue 6 2017
The government of Canada and Quebec municipality have each pledged to invest US$4.4m
(€4m, £3.4m) for the construction of a large-scale aqua-gym complex in the town of
Dolbeau-Mistassini, the government of which will fund the same amount.
news •
27 Apr 2017
The Gym Group turned around losses of £12.7m (US$15.4m, €14.5m) for 2015 to post a
profit of £6.9m (US$8.4m, €7.9m) in 2016 following its move onto the stock market.
news •
14 Mar 2017
“Archaic” town planning laws are blocking fitness businesses from having impactful
presences on English high streets which are “drowning in betting shops and fried chicken
joints”, according to the chair of ukactive.
news •
03 Mar 2017
Budget gym operators with premises in Central London are paying 19 per cent more rent
than mid-market rivals, according to a Colliers International report.
news •
09 Jan 2017
DW Sports’ Scott Best and Fitness First UK’s Martin Seibold outline their plans for the future, as the two brands join forces
HCM issue 1 2017
David Lloyd is returning to the leisure industry with a multi-activity concept - David Lloyd’s
Adventure Parks.
news •
29 Dec 2016
A major new leisure complex – boasting a leisure centre, restaurants and hotel – will be
built in Morpeth, Northumberland.
news •
05 Dec 2016
The founder of budget health club operator Pure Gym has launched a new salon concept
which aims to “transform” the UK’s beauty market.
news •
02 Nov 2016
Wakefield Council has revealed plans to replace three existing swimming pools in West
Yorkshire with a new £14.8m “flagship” leisure centre for the region.
news •
16 Sep 2016
People living in the UK are likely to be 35 per cent less active in 2030 than they were in
the 1960s – unless current trends of increases in inactivity are reversed.
news •
20 Jul 2016
The main contractor has been appointed for the construction of Urban Sports Park (USP) –
a multi-level indoor skating complex in Folkestone, UK designed by Guy Holloway
Architects.
news •
18 Jul 2016
Nuffield Health will today (14 June) announce that it has secured 35 sites from Virgin
Active, as the health charity moves to significantly expand its national network of health
clubs and hospitals.
news •
14 Jun 2016
Sentinel Leisure Trust’s innovative model sees its commercial arm driving revenue to keep its leisure offering affordable
HCM issue 6 2016
Sport England will plough “hundreds of millions of pounds” into 10 different places across
England in an attempt to address location-specific issues such as high inactivity and
unemployment.
news •
19 May 2016
Taking the stairs is normally associated with keeping your body strong and healthy, but
new research shows that it improves your brain’s health too – and that education also has
a positive effect.
news •
08 Apr 2016
The potential sale of Fitness First UK has sparked “a significant amount of interest,” with
the recovering gym chain having caught the attention of a slew of investors.
news •
30 Mar 2016
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