North West news

Global developer and wellbeing destination operator Therme Group is one step closer to breaking ground on its flagship thermal wellbeing and leisure resort development in ... More

The recently-transformed Bamford Wellness Spa in Gloucestershire has been recognised as the UK’s Best New Spa at the sixth annual Good Spa Guide Awards ceremony. ... More

The growth of budget health club chain JD Gyms has been accelerated by "at least three years" thanks to the company's acquisition of Xercise4Less during ... More

Gyms and leisure facilities in south-east England are to close from midnight tonight as part of new restrictions announced during an emergency press this evening ... More

Lifestyle Fitness and V1BE are partnering to open a new, £1m health club in Manchester. Scheduled to open in early 2021, the club is part ... More

Gyms in Liverpool,UK, have been given the go-ahead to reopen, following a dramatic week of negotiations. The city had originally been excluded from the UK ... More

"Dozens" of gyms in Liverpool, UK, have defied the government and stayed open for business – despite being ordered to shut their doors – with ... More

Manchester United has launched a new initiative to increase its engagement with local schools and grassroots clubs across Manchester and the North West of England. ... More

A planning application has been submitted for a £23m leisure centre in Coalville, Leicestershire. The plans include replacing the ageing Hermitage Leisure Centre with a ... More

Leisure operator Everyone Active has secured management deals for 11 new sites. The new contracts will take the number of facilities in the company's managed ... More

Andy Tee, co-founder of boutique fitness studio V1BE, has revealed plans to expand the concept from a single site in Manchester using a combination of ... More

US-based boutique fitness operator Orangetheory Fitness is preparing to open its first club in the North West of England. The £1m studio is set to ... More

Life Leisure has become a facility owner after acquiring the Stockport Sports Village (SSV). The charitable trust – which manages sports and leisure facilities in ... More

Winners of this year's Good Spa Guide Awards were announced last night (13 November) at a gala dinner at the SpaLife Conference in Birmingham, UK. ... More

Spa operator Champneys has appointed Darling Associates to provide the designs for a £10m redevelopment of the historic Mottram Hall, which it acquired in September ... More

Leading spa group Champneys has expanded its property portfolio with the acquisition of Mottram Hall in Cheshire. Purchased from real-estate investment company Aprirose, Mottram Hall ... More

Plans have been lodged by the National Trust for Scotland (NTS) to build a vertical gallery and bird hide in a 19th-century botanical garden in ... More

VisitEngland has named 11 regional tourism projects which will each receive up to £250,000 of funding from the Discover England Fund. The initiatives to receive ... More

Architecture firm Purcell will create an extension to the historic home of the University of Manchester - Manchester Museum, after winning planning and listed building ... More

Offering free access to gyms and leisure centres – and promoting them heavily – could have dramatic results on the health of communities. That is ... More

A Leicestershire council has rubber-stamped plans to build a £20m (US$26.6m, €22.5m) leisure centre after admitting its current provision has “become disjointed, inefficient and inflexible”. ... More

The Spa at Gleneagles by ESPA has been named the best UK spa at this year’s 2017 Good Spa Guide Awards. The awards, organised by ... More

Professional clubs playing in the second tier of English rugby have signed up to a grassroots rugby development programme which will see a selection of ... More

Low-cost gym chain Xercise4Less is collaborating with Lancashire Sport Partnership to help people recovering from drug and alcohol dependency by providing them with free gym ... More

School summer holidays are creating a class divide between the fitness levels of deprived children and their more affluent peers thanks to a lack of ... More