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Construction is to start next month on the University of Birmingham’s new £55m
red brick and copper-clad sports centre on its Edgbaston campus.
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18 Mar 2014
The University of Birmingham has officially opened an indoor sports centre, designed by
British architecture studio Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands, with the ambition “to provide
future generations of the city’s athletes with world-class sports facilities.”
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14 Sep 2017
A second stage of development work has now commenced at Aston University's Doug
Ellis Woodcock Sports Centre in a bid to further enhance the institution's
sporting provision.
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21 Aug 2012
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
Far from setting people up to be physically active for life, school PE lessons
can put people off sport forever, according to research carried out by the
University of Birmingham. Of the 1,800 people surveyed for The Big PE
Conversation, half said school PE didn’t help them to become more physically active.
One quarter of males and one third of females said they never, or rarely enjoyed, PE.
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05 Jan 2015
Vince Mayne from BUCS reports on the importance of
Higher Education influencing students to get active and
boost their mental wellbeing and perceptions of attainment
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The Chartered Institute for the Management of Sport and Physical Activity (CIMSPA) is
partnering UK higher and further education institutions to help increase student employability
within the sector.
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16 Nov 2016
Birmingham’s LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender) community has opened a new sports
and
fitness studio at the Health and Wellbeing Centre on Holloway Centre in Birmingham City Centre.
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05 Jun 2013
The health and fitness industry is “close to appalling” at how it uses data to
justify its efficacy.
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20 May 2014
Older people who have never taken part in sustained exercise programmes have the same ability to
build muscle mass as highly trained master athletes of a similar age.
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10 Sep 2019
Outdoor fitness specialist British
Military Fitness has launched a
new Level 4 qualification
in Strength and Conditioning
aimed at exercise professionals
looking to take their career
to the next level.
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31 May 2016
Serco Leisure has won a 15-year contract with Birmingham City Council to manage nine
leisure centres across the city, including the design, build and operation of four new
swimming pools.
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27 Mar 2015
Erdington Leisure Centre in Birmingham will open to the public today (4 September) as part of
Birmingham City Council’s (BCC) £40m investment programme in the city’s ageing leisure
centre stock.
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04 Sep 2017
A new collaboration betwen the national government agencies responsible for sport, arts, heritage, the built environment and museums and libraries in the UK has been launched to deliver creative, cultural and sporting opportunities.
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14 Feb 2006
Sportspark, the University of East Anglia's (UEA) multi-million pound sports facility, has seen a 12 per cent increase in annual turnover to nearly £3m.
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14 Apr 2010
Doug Ellis, former chair of Aston Villa Football Club, has helped mark the
official unveiling of Aston University's new-look Woodcock Sports Centre,
following a £5m revamp.
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17 Oct 2011
The school of sport and exercise sciences at Loughborough University has announced that The Peter Harrison Centre for Disability Sport – the only centre of its kind in the UK – will be formally launched in January 2005.
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07 Oct 2004
Mike Farrar has been announced as the new chair at UK Active. His tenure will
start in August 2022 when he takes over the position from Tanni Grey-Thompson, following her
six-year stint
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15 Jun 2022
Birmingham City Council (BCC) and DC Leisure have launched the new £12.2m
Harborne Pool and Fitness Centre, which is located on the site of the city's
former Harborne Baths.
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18 Jan 2012
Actor Will Mellor has been in Birmingham to raise awareness of the Together We Will
campaign, which aims to encourage and motivate disabled people to be more active.
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02 Sep 2016
Former sports minister Richard Caborn has claimed that plans to increase sports participation in the UK as part of legacy plans for London 2012 are in danger of "failing completely".
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21 Sep 2011
Kingston University in London has reopened its fitness centre following a £0.5m revamp.
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16 Oct 2006
The TLV University Sport Centre has officially re-opened in Tel Aviv, Israel, following a US$200,000 gym refurb.
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02 Jul 2010
British Universities & Colleges Sport (BUCS), the new national organisation tasked with promoting the benefits of sport and physical activity on university and college campuses, launched today, creating the largest higher education sports organisation in Europe.
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13 Jun 2008
Oxford University's plans for a major overhaul of its Iffley Road sports complex have been given the green light by Oxford City Council.
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30 Nov 2010
The University of Brighton has opened a new £6m sports centre at its Falmer Campus in East Sussex, which has been designed by S&P Architects.
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11 Nov 2010
The Robert Gordon University has officially opened RGU: SPORT – a new £11m sports centre on its Garthdee campus on the outskirts of Aberdeen city centre.
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02 Mar 2005
Organised sport should not be used to engage children in physical activity as it
alienates them from taking part in regular exercise, according to the chief
executive of Fit For Sport.
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20 Sep 2016
Indoor cycling specialist Wattbike has teamed up with Loughborough University (LU) in
order to
explore the scientific underpinnings of how power measurement is shaping the nature of
cycle sport.
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08 Aug 2018
The University of Warwick is building a £49m (US$64.6m, €54.9m) sports and wellness
hub in a bid to become the “most physically active higher education campus” in the UK by
2020.
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20 Nov 2017
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