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ukactive has won the Trade Body Campaign of the Year award for its Turning the
tide of inactivity campaign at the Public Affairs Awards 2014.
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10 Dec 2014
Is ukactive's campaign to tackle inactivity on track to achieve its goals?
HCM issue 4 2014
A brand new industry event aiming to bring together a wide range of sectors to tackle the
physical inactivity crisis will take place at London Olympia next year.
news •
06 Oct 2015
ukactive wants physical activity to rise 1 per cent a year for the next five years. Is this really achievable?
HCM issue 5 2014
Physical inactivity is killing twice as many Europeans as obesity, according to a
landmark report from the University of Cambridge.
news •
15 Jan 2015
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.
news •
30 Apr 2014
Premier Training International is to launch a new health and wellbeing course
geared towards those working on community schemes aimed at tackling the
UK’s physical inactivity crisis.
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24 Jun 2014
Physical inactivity among young people could cost the UK economy up to £53bn.
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01 Apr 2014
CEO of ukactive David Stalker discusses the parliamentary group set up to examine physical inactivity
HCM issue 2 2014
Key stakeholders from a range of relevant UK industries will gather at five
regional forums next month to develop a cross sector approach to tackling
inactivity across the nation.
news •
26 Jun 2014
The fitness sector needs to ensure it's maintaining ambitious targets when it comes to getting more people more active, says Liz Terry
HCM issue 4 2014
Speaking at the ukactive Summit held today in London (7 November 2013), Sir
Keith Mills, founder of Nectar and Air Miles and former deputy chair of
LOCOG, criticised the way in which efforts are made to increase participation in
sport.
news •
07 Nov 2013
Tackling physical inactivity must become a frontline health priority for the UK’s next
government, ahead of the separate issue of obesity, says a new Health Select Committee
report published today.
news •
25 Mar 2015
ukactive CEO David Stalker has warned of the dangers of focusing public health policy
solely on tackling obesity, after a trio of scientists said it was time to "bust the myth"
about exercise.
news •
23 Apr 2015
Key academic thinkers in the area of physical activity and exercise met with
leaders from the leisure industry and public health in London on Wednesday, to
discuss solutions to the UK’s inactivity crisis.
news •
21 Feb 2014
MPs attending the first ever first Parliamentary
Debate on physical activity
have agreed the government has a large role to
play in kickstarting a reversal
of the current trend towards inactivity.
news •
19 Nov 2014
The new director of health and wellbeing at Public Health England talks to Steven Ward about his mission to tackle the ‘wicked problem' of physical inactivity
HCM issue 2 2014
Public health spending on tackling England’s inactivity epidemic will double next
year, marking a “seismic shift” in local authority thinking, according to a new
ukactive report.
news •
12 Nov 2014
Sport England’s evolution – encapsulated in its new strategy – means sport and fitness are now on the same page, says ukactive’s Steven Ward
HCM issue 7 2016
Public Health England (PHE) has today (23 October) published Everybody Active,
Every
Day, a framework for nationwide action to combat the physical inactivity
epidemic.
news •
23 Oct 2014
Talk of addressing the problem of inactivity levels in the UK has grown in
prominence in recent years, with 25 per cent of Britain’s population now being
classed as inactive.
news •
20 May 2014
An influential new report from a British think tank has given further support to
the notion that inactivity, not obesity, is at the root of the UK’s health crisis.
news •
19 Aug 2014
UK Health and fitness education provider Premier Global has partnered up with global
fitness educator the National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM) to transform the
education and training available to the UK's fitness professionals into the best in the world.
news •
28 Jun 2017
Increasing physical activity levels by just one per cent a year would save the
UK economy £1.2bn over the next five years, according to a new report from
industry body ukactive.
news •
31 Jan 2014
Three in ten Britons admit they rarely or never do sport and exercise, with
many citing lack of motivation and expensive facilities as their main source of
dissuasion, according to new research from Mintel.
news •
13 Mar 2014
ukactive has promoted its executive director Steven Ward to the position of CEO, the
health body has announced today (8 May).
news •
08 May 2017
The new Sport England strategy is a huge triumph for ukactive, and an equally significant opportunity for the fitness sector, says Kate Cracknell
HCM issue 6 2016
The majority of UK adults spend five times longer in front of a TV, tablet, PC or mobile screen than they do exercising in a normal week, according to a recent poll.
news •
30 Sep 2014
Britain is in the grip of a perilous health crisis, with the average person failing to
follow seven out of eight basic health guidelines, according to a new report.
news •
05 Aug 2014
One year after it was added for the treatment of hypertension, physical activity
is set to be dropped from the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) in April.
news •
27 Feb 2014
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