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The UK’s Department for Transport (DfT) is likely to miss the targets it has set
itself for boosting
walking and cycling.
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16 Jun 2023
The UK government is to invest £338m in transforming active travel through infrastructure
upgrades, changes to The Highway Code and new requirements to ensure that active
travel schemes' effects are properly assessed.
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17 Aug 2021
The paralympic champion is backing Sheffield City Region’s proposals to create safe, active travel routes
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Eleven local authority areas in England are sharing £12.7m as part of a multi-year funding
programme to deliver social prescriptions for walking and cycling.
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22 Aug 2022
London Sport has announced the launch of a new insight and data portal as it seeks to
make good on its goal of transforming London into the most active city in the world.
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25 Apr 2016
Scotland plans to roll-out 'The Daily Mile' scheme to all educational facilities and workplaces in a bid
to tackle obesity in the country.
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27 Oct 2017
The government's pledge to invest £2bn in improving the UK's cycling and walking
infrastructure has been described as a 'once in a generation opportunity' to create a
sustainable active travel network.
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11 May 2020
An area north of Sheffield City Centre in the UK is to be designed as an Active
Neighbourhood, with the view to creating an environment which promotes physical
activity.
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12 Feb 2021
From secret music events for fitness to sports heatmaps and AI coaches, 16 innovative
start-ups have been selected to launch London’s new Sport Tech Hub.
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06 Oct 2017
British Medical Association: government must tackle 'stark inequalities' in physical activity levels
Doctors have called on the Conservative government to take "urgent action" to improve low levels of
physical activity across the UK.
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28 Oct 2019
The London Assembly has called for leisure operators and schools to increase and
improve efforts to help disabled Londoners stay physically active.
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14 Mar 2012
Far from being a barrier to activity, the workplace can be an excellent place to
promote active lifestyles, according to impressive statistics from My Team 2015 –
a national eight week, workplace-based activity challenge.
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11 Mar 2015
The government has unveiled a new attempt to tackle obesity in the UK by appointing a ‘minister for fitness’.
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23 Aug 2006
Ukactive has urged the incoming Conservative government to invest heavily in physical activity – in
order to improve the nation’s health.
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16 Dec 2019
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.
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20 Jul 2016
A conference held in London this month will discuss the "next frontier" in health-
and wellness-based urban design and civic architecture.
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05 Oct 2022
As Strava today (10 May) kicks off its first ever Global Bike to Work Day, the cycling app
has revealed that more than 70 cities and regions around the world are harnessing its
data to inform transport policy.
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10 May 2016
The government will invest £140m in cycling in an attempt to help half a million children cycle safely and a generation of adults rediscover their bikes.
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21 Jan 2008
A number of main roads in London city centre were closed on 22 September to encourage Londoners
to cycle, walk, use public transport and have street parties.
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23 Sep 2019
Primary schools across the country will see PE and sport funding doubled this month in a
bid to change the lives of a generation.
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18 Oct 2017
The physical activity sector has called for the UK's party leaders to commit to improving the nation's
health in their election manifestos.
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31 Oct 2019
Representatives from the three main political parties have backed the view that physical activity has
a major role to play in the nation’s health by reducing the burden on the NHS.
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09 Dec 2019
Health club members expect wearable technology and Netflix-style workout services to “transform”
their traditional gym experience over the next decade.
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07 Sep 2016
Steven Ward offers an overview of ukactive’s new vision document
HCM issue 11 2015
The government has unveiled a new blueprint to boost physical activity and sustainable
transport by encouraging more walking and cycling across Britain.
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29 Mar 2016
Sport England’s evolution – encapsulated in its new strategy – means sport and fitness are now on the same page, says ukactive’s Steven Ward
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Health and wellbeing should be at the heart of all government policymaking according to a new
report from UK member of Parliament Kim Leadbeater, who has called for a major
transformation in the way the government protects the health and wellbeing of all citizens.
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21 Mar 2023
The latest chapter of the government’s Childhood Obesity Plan – published this
week – has
received a mixed reaction from the physical activity sector.
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26 Jun 2018
ukactive CEO David Stalker outlines the work that lies ahead for the health and fitness industry as it progresses through 2015
HCM issue 2 2015
Over 100 experts in health and wellbeing gathered in central London yesterday (Friday 8
September) at the invitation of Kim Leadbeater MP, to discuss how a future Labour
government in
the UK could deliver policies for a "healthier happier and more productive Britain."
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10 Sep 2023
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