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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
Leisure Connection has launched a disability inclusion policy as part of its commitment to customers and team members with disabilities.
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15 Oct 2004
Industry body ukactive has joined the chorus of organisations across a number of sectors calling the
government's new National Disability Strategy a "missed opportunity".
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30 Jul 2021
Many gym operators are still falling short when it comes to catering for disabled people – but there are some positive cases where the industry is getting it right
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Nationwide building society has become the first organisation to receive the English Federation of Disability Sport’s (EFDS) Count Me In award, in recognition of its support of disability sport.
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08 May 2006
The prospect of the European Court of Justice ruling obesity as a disability due
to an escalated employment tribunal is distracting focus from the key message
of how to combat the condition, according to ukactive CEO David Stalker.
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18 Jun 2014
A consortium headed up by the English Federation of Disability Sport (EFDS) has bagged a
£4.5m (US$6.4m, €5.9m) grant to get people active across 18 locations in the UK.
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18 Jan 2016
The European Court of Justice is considering a test case which could oblige
employers to treat obesity as a disability, potentially leaving them with a duty to
make adjustments to work environments.
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13 Jun 2014
Employers across Europe may be forced to make adjustments to work
environments to accommodate overweight employees, after the European Court
of Justice (ECJ) ruled that obesity can constitute a disability within European
law.
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18 Dec 2014
DC Leisure is encouraging disabled visitors to use its local authority leisure centres now that half of them have received accreditation from Inclusive Fitness Initiative.
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11 Oct 2005
Pent Valley Leisure Centre was officially opened last month by Olympian Colin Jackson and Paralympian Noel Thatcher.
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07 Jun 2005
The third phase of the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) came into force today and means the UK’s 10 million disabled people now have greater rights on the high street and in the workplace.
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01 Oct 2004
This year’s LIW/FIA/FitPro Business Convention is set to be the biggest show in the event’s history.
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14 Aug 2006
Leisure operator Greenwich Leisure Limited (GLL) has signed a deal with Disability Sports
Coach (DSC) to improve disability provision by creating community clubs.
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05 Dec 2016
Organisations have pledged to back a programme aimed at encouraging more people with
disabilities to take part in sport and physical activity.
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25 Jan 2018
Eight national disability sports organisations (NDSOs) have joined forces to launch a
campaign to get more people with impairments active.
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15 Jul 2016
Physical activity providers should reach out to supporters of disabled people through
effective marketing to boost their participation, according to a new study.
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14 Jan 2016
Leisure operators have joined a new scheme to give disabled people and those with long-
term health conditions better access to physical activity opportunities.
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09 Nov 2017
A new campaign looks to get more disabled people physically active by making sport and fitness
activities more accessible.
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09 Nov 2018
Sports trust Impulse Leisure relaunched Blackshots gym in Essex as an Inclusive Fitness Initiative (IFI) facility this month.
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25 Oct 2005
Plans for a new £10m sports arena on the site of a former fruit and vegetable market in Worcester are to be submitted by the University of Worcester (UW) next week.
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26 Nov 2010
The Muscular Dystrophy Campaign is carrying out an undercover investigation of disabled facilities at leisure venues nationwide.
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16 Nov 2009
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
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
The English Federation of Disability Sport has published a new set of
guidelines for sport and fitness providers. The guidelines form a part of the Talk To
Me report – published on 31 October – and draw from consultations with both active
and inactive disabled people.
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04 Nov 2014
Young disabled people and providers of disability sports should have more opportunities to
bid for funds for equipment and specialist support to counter participation drop-off after
their school years, says a new research paper.
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09 Dec 2015
Mencap has revealed plans to establish 27 activity hubs across England in order to get people with
learning disabilities more physically active.
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29 Jan 2019
UK leisure centres are not doing enough to ensure their facilities are accessible
for older people with sight issues, causing many to become inactive, according
to a new report.
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25 Jun 2014
Accepting obesity as something to be catered for, rather than a tide to be
turned, would go against everything the health and industry believes in,
according to Health Club Management editor Kate Cracknell in her August leader
column.
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07 Aug 2014
Former Cabinet Secretary Lord Gus O’Donnell and the chair of the Royal College of General
Practitioners (RCGP), professor Helen Stokes-Lampard, have been named as keynote speakers for
this year's ukactive National Summit.
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24 Aug 2019
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New research has found BMI to be a highly inaccurate measure of childhood obesity, leading current thinking and policy based on it into question
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Members are telling us they need support with their mental and spiritual health and the industry is starting to see this need. Now’s the time to fast-track our response
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