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Welsh sports minister Alun Pugh has announced that the Welsh Assembly is to invest a further £11.8m in sport and physical activity over the next two years.
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01 Aug 2006
North Yorkshire Sport has announced the appointment of David Watson to the newly created role of executive director.
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28 Jul 2006
Games consoles have been fitted to workout equipment at a south Wales gym to encourage youngsters to do more exercise.
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27 Jul 2006
The Fitness Industry Association (FIA) is set to launch a new membership sales promotion to appeal to those who blame a lack of time for not taking regular exercise.
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26 Jul 2006
SALTO Gymnastics Club in Luton has expanded its present facilities to include a dedicated youth gym.
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21 Jul 2006
The LivingWell Premier health club in Inverness, Scotland, has become the first company in the country to be awarded the Scotland’s Health at Work (SHAW) Commendation Award for Mental Health and Wellbeing.
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05 Jul 2006
Officials at the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) and the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) have strongly denied reports that swimming is to be dropped from the list of sports that pupils are expected to practice in PE lessons at secondary school.
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03 Jul 2006
On 1 July, £400,000 of new health and fitness facilities will officially open to the public at the Stoke on Trent and North Staffordshire YMCA.
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28 Jun 2006
The Inclusive Fitness Initiative (IFI) and the Fitness Industry Association (FIA) are applying for a grant from the National Sports Foundation to expand the inclusive fitness concept to the private sector.
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16 Jun 2006
Somerset-based leisure trust, Crewkerne Leisure Management, has opened the new £1.2m Active Lifestyle Centre at Crewkerne Aqua Centre.
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15 Jun 2006
Independent health club Fitness 2000 in Great Yarmouth has received a £16,000 grant from the Neighbourhood Renewal Fund to fully finance a new weight management programme for children using a Zig Zag Sportwall.
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14 Jun 2006
The Inclusive Fitness Initiative (IFI) is investigating the potential delivery of the scheme in Europe, following its success in the UK over the past five years.
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08 Jun 2006
Purely Nutrition – a nutritional and physical activity advisor – has devised a training scheme called Phunky Foods to teach young people about the importance of good health.
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18 May 2006
Public Health Minister Caroline Flint has announced the publication of new practical tools for GPs and other health professionals to help patients lose weight and improve their health.
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04 May 2006
The Amateur Swimming Association has announced that Kellogg’s – the sponsors of the ASA Awards since 1997 – has signed a new extended deal worth £3m.
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25 Apr 2006
A pilot programme to tackle the issue of obesity in children diagnosed as either overweight or clinically obese has been a success in Northern Ireland.
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11 Apr 2006
The message that we should all do five sessions of vigorous exercise a week is entirely counter productive, claims health club chain Esporta after conducting a three-year review of the government’s physical activity initiatives.
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04 Apr 2006
A new study into the nation’s attitudes towards health and fitness has shown that the greatest barrier preventing people from exercising was not a lack of convenient facilities, but a lack of time.
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29 Mar 2006
The Fitness Industry Association (FIA) has established a new charitable trust, the Health and Fitness Foundation, to promote activities which encourage physical activity.
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16 Mar 2006
Children who regularly take part in physical activity are 20 per cent happier than those who shun exercise in favour of computer games or television, according to recent research commissioned for the launch of Sainsbury’s Active Kids campaign.
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24 Feb 2006
North Ayrshire Leisure in Scotland has launched a mobile health and fitness unit this month to promote participation in regular physical activity in the local area.
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23 Feb 2006
Staff from Hillsborough Leisure Centre in Sheffield hosted a presentation recently to promote active lifestyles for people with disabilities.
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23 Feb 2006
The Chief Medical Officer for Wales has recently published guidelines for exercise referral schemes, stating that they must only be made to instructors who are registered with the Register of Exercise Professionals (REPs) at level 3 as an Advanced Instructor and with qualifications for working with specialist populations.
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09 Feb 2006
The FIA-led activity initiative, Active at Work, is due to commence next month (March) and the FIA is currently in discussions with several Sport England regions to further fund the initiative.
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09 Feb 2006
Due to the continual success of the Fitness Industry Association’s (FIA) Adopt a School (AAS) scheme, nearly 60 programmes are expected to help to increase the activity levels of 1,800 school children this spring.
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09 Feb 2006
Wigan Leisure and Culture Trust’s (WLCT) Getting Wigan Active campaign is moving forward following improvements at two of its fitness facilities.
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19 Jan 2006
Advanced instructors at level 3 on the Register of Exercise Professionals (REPs) who are responsible for designing and delivering structured and tailored physical activity programmes for referred patients/clients, or assigning them to an appropriate physical activity, must have a range of knowledge and skills specific to the referral process, specified medical conditions and relevant health risk factors related to physical activity participation.
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10 Jan 2006
Canada has set its sights on becoming one of the healthiest countries in the world, following a CAN$300m (£150m, 212m euro, US$260m) investment in health promotion over the next five years.
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10 Jan 2006
Tees Active has secured funding from the Big Lottery Fund to finance a new scheme called Active Start, designed to increase children’s participation in physical activity in the Stockton-on-Tees area.
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09 Jan 2006
Leisure operator DC Leisure has received accreditation from the Institute of Leisure and Amenity Management (ILAM) for being the first leisure contractor to introduce the institute’s Active programme.
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22 Dec 2005
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