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Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced that gyms may be able to reopen in a ‘couple of weeks’.
Johnson made the comments during an interview with radio station LBC on 3 July.
"We are going to reopen gyms as soon as we can do it in a COVID-19-secure way and I think that the
date for reopening gyms at the moment, if we can do it, is in just a couple of weeks’ time," Johnson
said.
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03 Jul 2020
Swimming pool users will have to adapt to a ‘new normal’ to ensure the safety of everyone visiting
and working at the UK's pool facilities – according to guidance published by Swim England.
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23 Jun 2020
Independent gym owners in Ohio have filed a lawsuit against state officials,
challenging the decision to keep fitness facilities closed.
news •
19 May 2020
Kirklees Active Leisure has reopened Dewsbury Pool in West Yorkshire after phase one of a £3m investment scheme was completed.
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09 Nov 2005
Building work on a multi-million pound overhaul of Gateshead's Dunston Leisure Centre has been officially completed after the keys were handed over to the local authority.
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31 Mar 2011
Budget health and fitness operator Fitness4Less has bought the Fitness First gym in Newport, south Wales, for an undisclosed sum through property agents Christie + Co.
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15 Jul 2010
Pubs are to open before gyms, to the bitter disappointment of the health and fitness
sector.
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23 Jun 2020
Industry body ukactive has today (1 July) hosted a delegation of government and public health
officials on visits to a number of gyms and leisure centres.
news •
01 Jul 2020
The trade body for the German fitness sector, Deutscher Industrieverband für Fitness und
Gesundheit (DIFG), has published a detailed road map for the reopening of the country's
gyms, health clubs and fitness studios.
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05 May 2020
The Gym Group aims to raise £31m from investors to fund 40 new sites around the UK.
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03 Jul 2021
A new, Europe-wide initiative will look to chart the case rates for COVID-19 across European gym
sector.
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20 Nov 2020
PureGym expects lockdowns to last "until at least 31 March" – and that it will be reopening its
Danish and Swiss operations before the UK.
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16 Feb 2021
Waterlane Leisure Centre in Lowestoft, Suffolk, is preparing for a reopening
following a £6.5m redevelopment.
news •
03 Nov 2011
The government has announced that it will keep the Moratorium of Forfeiture, which protects
businesses from rent enforcement activity, in place for a further three months.
news •
19 Jun 2020
The UK government has given its clearest signal yet it may be about to announce gyms
can reopen early in July.
news •
17 Jun 2020
The re-opening of gyms in Wales has been pushed back by the country's First
Minister – just two
weeks after one of his ministers promised that health clubs and leisure centres
would be among the
first businesses allowed to reopen.
news •
22 Feb 2021
Boutique gym operator, Gymbox, faced threats of legal action over its bid to reopen on 4 July,
with CEO, Marc Diaper deciding not to proceed as a result.
news •
06 Jul 2020
Tanni Grey-Thompson, Chair of ukactive, Humphrey Cobbold, CEO of Pure Gym and ukactive
board member and Huw Edwards CEO of ukactive, all appeared on BBC prime time TV last night
(24 June) to represent the gym sector and challenge the government's "pubs before gyms"
decision which looks likely to delay reopening of the activity sector until mid-July at the earliest.
news •
25 Jun 2020
Gymbox has broken ranks and announced it will reopen all its gyms on 4 July, unless
the UK government explains why it should not.
news •
26 Jun 2020
An industry-wide campaign will provide fitness operators with the practical resources needed to
ensure a safe and successful return to business for the UK's gyms and leisure facilities.
news •
10 Jun 2020
Placing gyms and leisure centres at the front of the queue for reopening would be making a
"statement of intent" to building a healthier and better Britain after the pandemic.
news •
18 Feb 2021
Gyms in the UK are continuing to successfully control COVID-19 transmisssion, according to the
latest figures released by industry body, ukactive.
news •
21 Sep 2020
Pure Gym's overseas clubs returned to pre-COVID-19 profit levels in the first month of
trading after reopening, according to the company's Q2 2020 financial results, which are
out today.
news •
27 Aug 2020
UK consumer confidence has improved significantly since the beginning of the lockdown, with a
fifth of households now thinking they will be better off in the next 12 months.
news •
02 Jul 2020
High-end fitness operator Equinox will not rush to reopen its clubs and studios even if given
permission by authorities to do so, according to executive chair Harvey Spevak.
news •
28 Apr 2020
Irlam and Cadishead Leisure Centre in Salford has reopened following a £2.8m redevelopment. Works
included a complete refurbishment of the centre's swimming pool and an extension to the health and
fitness club.
news •
12 Sep 2012
Ex-sports minister Kate Hoey and Olympic gold medallist Duncan Goodhew are supporting calls for the reopening of the Haggerston Pool in Hackney, London.
news •
16 Jan 2006
A Nuffield Health fitness and wellbeing centre in Norbury, South London, has
reopened its doors after an arson attack during the 2011 riots caused £1m worth
of damage to the venue.
news •
27 Jan 2012
Announcing the company's half-year results today (2 September), Richard Darwin, CEO of
The Gym Group (TGG), said the company was cashflow positive in the first month of
trading when gyms reopened and it was able to turn on its direct debit pipeline.
news •
02 Sep 2020
Industry body ukactive has launched an Independent Operators Steering Group, catering for
members who run independently-owned sites or a small number of locations.
news •
10 Jul 2020
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