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Europe’s largest fitness chain, Basic-Fit, has consolidated its position in France with the launch of its 800th club on the iconic Champs-Élysées, in Paris, confirming ... More

A new campaign is promoting the benefits that swimming can offer to people struggling with mental health issues. The Get Set to Go initiative – ... More

The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has published the country's first ever National Youth Sports Strategy, described as a "blueprint for increasing ... More

Disabled people should be offered more opportunities to play sport alongside non-disabled people. That is the finding of a report based on a two-year research ... More

London-based architecture practice Foster + Partners have revealed plans to create a community-centred boathouse and rowing facility in Washington Heights, New York. Commissioned by competitive ... More

Rosewood Baha Mar in The Bahamas is partnering with Yogi Beans, an educational and transformative yoga–for–kids company, to offer upbeat activity and foster healthy habits ... More

Fitness operator HITIO Gym has signed its first franchise agreement in the UK. The Norway-based chain, which combines a traditional gym and studio offering with ... More

The spa at Ramside Hall Hotel in Durham, UK, has partnered with life coach and psychotherapist Jude Daunt to launch a two-day event designed to ... More

A new initiative is set to launch in early 2019, encouraging spas to cater its offerings to guests suffering from cancer-related hair loss. A first ... More

Dr Marc Cohen, professor at Australia’s RMIT University and board member of the Global Wellness Summit, has launched a series of ‘extreme’ wellness retreats focusing ... More

Chia Laguna, Italian Hospitality Collection’s five-star family resort in Sardinia, has unveiled a series of ‘Mini Mindfulness’ children’s activities designed to help little ones step ... More

Sport England has earmarked £1.5m to extend the Get Set To Go scheme, which encourages people with mental health issues to join mainstream sports clubs, ... More

Rugby will touch the lives of thousands of young people from under-represented communities, as part of an ambitious new project from Premiership Rugby and England ... More

Everyone Active has teamed up with on-demand fitness and dance content provider iDEA to launch virtual activity classes for children. The leisure centre operator will ... More

A group of unemployed people has taken part in an innovative health and fitness programme designed to help them find work. Twelve people, who had ... More

Virgin Active is teaming up with children's television characters The Octonauts as part of an initiative to encourage more youngsters to learn to swim. Working ... More

The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) has appointed 17 young people from across the UK as heritage ambassadors, with the group selected to allocate millions of ... More

Grassroots athletics clubs across England will support members and people in their wider community with mental health problems by appointing designated volunteers. The Mental Health ... More

The Ricardo Fisas Natura Bissé Foundation is working with hospitals via an assistance programme to provide free treatments to cancer patients. It also trains professional ... More

Clubbercise, the dance fitness class that claims to ‘bring a night out to a workout’ has joined forces with Street Step to help disadvantaged young ... More

A pioneering Danish health scheme that enforces a series of strict lifestyle changes is being touted as a potential solution to the global childhood obesity ... More

A new £2m programme using sport to improve the lives of people with mental health problems will be launched in England next year (2015). The ... More

Several physical activity organisations are among the nominees for the 2014 Body Confidence Awards – an event bidding to tackle the growing problem of body ... More

KidsSTOP – an interactive science centre aimed at children – has become the first such attraction to open in Singapore. Designed and planned by Jack ... More