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With almost 20 per cent of the UK population living in the countryside, this marks the next
frontier for fitness industry expansion. The challenge is finding the right model.
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19 Dec 2023
Many people living in rural areas are missing out on fitness. What can the public and private sectors do to broaden their customer reach?
HCM issue 10 2023
We dive into the State of the UK Swimming Industry Report 2023 by Leisure DB to see what challenges and opportunities lie ahead for the aquatics sector
HCM issue 7 2023
The founder of GLL reflects on the challenges he faced setting up the UK’s first charitable trust for leisure services
HCM issue 7 2023
As leisure provider GLL celebrates its 30th year of operations, its CEO and founder share their five-year vision
HCM issue 7 2023
Dave Wright, CEO of Myzone, has re-joined UK Active’s board of directors for a
three-year term.
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17 Jan 2023
Mark Sesnan, co-founder and CEO of GLL (Greenwich Leisure Limited), has announced that he
will be standing down as chief executive at the end of this year after 30 years.
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21 Dec 2022
With an additional bank holiday announced out of respect for Queen Elizabeth
II and to observe the state funeral on Monday 19 September, business owners
and event operators around the UK are making decisions whether to close,
modify opening times or stay open to serve the public’s needs.
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15 Sep 2022
First a pandemic, then a war and now a cost of living and energy crisis. With incomes being squeezed, will gyms be budgeted out? We talk to our panel
HCM issue 8 2022
Mark Sesnan, CEO of GLL, has pushed back on Tower Hamlet Council’s decision to take the
operation of its leisure services back in-house when GLL’s contract ends in April 2024.
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09 Aug 2022
As we face a global energy crisis, experts give their views on the drive towards decarbonisation, and how businesses can tackle steeply rising costs
HCM issue 5 2022
As we celebrate the publication of the 300th edition of HCM, we invite industry experts to give their insights on the health and fitness sector: why they joined, the most exciting development to date, and what they think we’ll be reporting on in the next 300 issues
HCM issue 3 2022
Two staff were injured and Twenty Six GLL leisure facilities had to close their doors on Friday
18 February, as Storm Eunice swept west across the UK with devastating force and speed.
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21 Feb 2022
Mark Sesnan, co-founder and CEO of GLL, has been awarded an OBE in the New Year Honours
List 2022.
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12 Jan 2022
There are no official numbers indicating how operators are faring after lockdown. In the first part of this special report, HCM talks to big box operators. Next issue we talk to the boutiques
HCM issue 8 2021
For this unprecedented year, we asked a stellar line up of industry big hitters, from around the globe, to give their thoughts on how COVID has shaped the health and fitness industry and where we go from here
HCM Handbook 2021
The Cabinet Office has chosen leisure operator GLL as the "face" of England's COVID-secure physical
activity facilities.
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12 Feb 2021
GLL is the latest operator to throw its support behind a parliamentary petition calling for gyms to
reopen first after the current national lockdown. GLL, which manages more than 258 facilities under
its Better brand, is urging all its customers to sign the petition, which also calls for a Work Out to
Help Out scheme similar to last summer’s successful scheme in the hospitality sector.
news •
28 Jan 2021
More than 100 sport and physical activity bodies have sent a letter to UK Prime Minister Boris
Johnson, urging him to give the sector a central role in the nation’s COVID-19 recovery plans.
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21 Sep 2020
Bans on meal deals, stricter rules on food advertising and printing calorie contents on
menus are
among the measures introduced in the government's new anti-obesity strategy – but
there is little
mentioning of gyms or exercise.
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27 Jul 2020
What were we expecting for the industry in 2020 before the pandemic struck? According to our panel of experts, membership packages for Gen Z are ripe for a rethink, and savvy employers should be thinking about putting in place bespoke digital tools for staff wellbeing
HCM Handbook 2020
Greenwich Leisure Ltd (GLL) and Finesse Leisure Partnership are in advanced talks over a
potential merger.
news •
21 Dec 2017
A physical activity referral scheme is set to be introduced in the London Borough of Barnet
to help increase levels of exercise among the local community.
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15 Nov 2017
Charitable social enterprise Greenwich Leisure Limited (GLL) has been awarded a 10-year
contract to run eight West Oxfordshire sports facilities following a competitive re-tender
process.
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08 Jun 2017
The management of two leisure centres in Preston, Lancashire, will be transferred to
Greenwich
Leisure Limited (GLL) in a bid to boost fitness services in the city.
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18 Jan 2017
Greenwich Leisure Limited (GLL) has grown its network of Better gyms with the purchase
of FitSpace - strengthening its position in the low-cost market.
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15 Dec 2016
Charitable social enterprise Greenwich Leisure Limited (GLL) has taken over the
management and operation of eight Cardiff leisure centres.
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06 Dec 2016
Greenwich Leisure Limited (GLL) will run leisure centres and other sports facilities,
currently
owned and maintained by Cornwall Council, from April 2017.
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14 Nov 2016
London’s first permanent ‘ninja run’ obstacle course has been established in a new leisure
centre in Waltham Forest as part of the council’s £30m (US$38.7m, €34.4m) upgrade
plan.
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03 Oct 2016
North Country Leisure (NCL) and Greenwich Leisure Limited (GLL) are to join forces and merge their
operations later this year.
news •
05 Aug 2016
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