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How can you attract the hard-to-reach groups, and how do you make this pay?
HCM issue 3 2016
The ASA has appointed Nick Caplin as its new director of participation, tasked with
spearheading efforts to increase swimming and aquatics participation in England.
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21 Apr 2015
New research published today by Sport England has revealed that only 21 per cent of adults in England are hitting recommended targets for participation in sport and active recreation – taking part in moderate intensity, three times a week.
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07 Dec 2006
Places for People Leisure (PfP) is using Sport England’s National Benchmarking Service (NBS)
alongside clever tactics to increase participation in deprived areas across its Rotherham contract
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10 Jul 2018
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
The number of adults taking part in regular sport has increased, with the over 55-year-olds leading the way.
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14 Apr 2008
Canadian software company Geosports is developing an app to try and increase
participation in sport in an age in which the developer believes people are less
involved in sports and physical activity.
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18 Feb 2014
Hyde Park’s Serpentine pond – the venue for the London 2012 open water marathon
swims – will host a new mass-participation swimming festival in September.
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10 Feb 2016
Sport England has called for "everyone in sport" to do more to increase participation by people with learning difficulties after announcing that it would be investing £200,000 at this year's Special Olympics GB Summer Games.
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26 May 2009
Less than a quarter of adults are hitting the recommended targets for sport and active recreation, according to Sport England’s Active People Survey.
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23 Jan 2007
The results of a survey detailing public participation in cultural, leisure and sporting activities between 2006-7 have been released by the DCMS.
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28 Aug 2008
Sport England and Hugh Robertson, the minister for sport and the Olympics, have unveiled plans to establish a 'mass participation legacy' from the London 2012 Games.
news •
15 Nov 2010
Many gym customers who regularly work away from their
home club, find the rigid operational procedures enforced by
public sector gym operators prevent them from enjoying
exercise.
product innovation •
18 Mar 2014
Abigail Harris looks at a number of recent participation-boosting club refurbishment projects
HCM issue 2 2013
Young people living in poverty are being priced out of
sport participation, with the cost of
leisure centres and sports facilities “too high”,
according to a recent report by the London
School of Economics (LSE).
news •
08 Dec 2015
Women in Sport is attempting to counter
female physical activity drop-off rates
during the winter months by issuing
recommendations to its partners
following an extensive piece of insight
work.
news •
08 Feb 2016
Sheffield International Venues (SIV) has invested £35,000 into providing specialist fitness equipment for people with disabilities at Concord Sports Centre in Sheffield.
news •
04 Sep 2008
The number of people taking part in outdoor exercise and recreation in the US reached an all
time record of 168.1 million in 2022 following year-on-year growth of 2.3 per cent.
news •
06 Jul 2023
Scottish sports minister Shona Robison has helped mark the start of work on a new £31.5m swimming pool being developed in Dundee.
news •
01 Feb 2011
More than 400 gyms throughout the UK are offering free use of their facilities this month in an initiative being run by the Fitness Industry Association (FIA) in partnership with Sport England.
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29 Mar 2006
Aberdeen is aiming to become the “most active city in Scotland”, with key stakeholders
launching an ambitious participation drive.
news •
19 Sep 2016
The number of people engaged in regular physical activity in England fell 1.4 per cent
between October 2014 to March 2015, with swimming and fitness suffering the largest
exoduses.
news •
11 Jun 2015
Five national governing bodies (NGBs) have pledged to work 'more closely' with the leisure sector as
part of efforts to increase sports participation numbers.
news •
04 Dec 2018
More than 10,000 inactive young Londoners
have taken part in physical activity since April
2015 in projects funded by Sportivate, Sport
England’s £56m youth engagement
programme.
news •
05 Apr 2016
British Rowing and British Triathlon have signed a new partnership to integrate their
indoor products in a bid to increase engagement in gyms.
news •
15 Nov 2017
The Scottish Government has launched a scheme to tackle physical inactivity among girls across all of Scotland’s 381 secondary schools.
news •
02 Apr 2008
The number of women participating in sport and physical activity has increased
by more than one million since 2005, according to the latest Taking Part survey.
news •
25 Mar 2013
Business In Sport and Leisure (BISL), the umbrella organisation for the sport, leisure and hospitality industry, is calling for more government funding for leisure-related Private Finance Initiative (PFI) schemes.
news •
09 Oct 2007
Sports trust Edinburgh Leisure has revealed that a record number of people are using the council's sports and leisure facilities.
news •
08 Oct 2008
Sport England has announced a major funding package for athletics, worth £14.6m, to encourage greater participation in support of the structural changes made after the publication of the Moving On review.
news •
17 Feb 2006
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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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offerings to meet growing consumer demand, Steph Eaves takes a
look at what cryotherapy and ice bathing can add to the equation
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