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Dr Steve Mann, former research director at industry body, ukactive, has been appointed director at sports and physical activity consultancy 4global. Mann has been tasked ... More

Almost a quarter of public swimming pools across the country remain closed – nearly a month after they were given the green light to reopen. ... More

Almost 60 per cent of UK parents plan to resume their children’s swimming lessons – even if spectator restrictions imposed to meet social distancing guidelines ... More

DataHub has launched a contact tracking app, specifically designed for the fitness and physical activity sector. The customer-facing Tractiv8 allows gym, health club and leisure ... More

In a major headline figure for operators, nearly 90 per cent of consumers say they intend to spend the same or more on being active ... More

A new report has revealed the likely timescales and shape of the UK fitness market's recovery from the COVID-19 lockdown, finding that 88 per cent ... More

How will customers engage with gyms and health clubs after lockdown? What will their new spending patterns be? How regularly will they attend? In a ... More

Plans have been revealed for a four-stage strategy to reopen the UK's physical activity sector, once the government begins to ease the COVID-19 lockdown restrictions. ... More

ukactive has launched two major new reports as part of its Business Intelligence service. The first product is a new series of quarterly business reports ... More

Creating opportunities for older people to get physically active represents a major driver for growth in public leisure, according to new research. A study by ... More

Group training is a trend that is here to stay. It first appeared in the top 20 of ASCM’s worldwide survey of fitness trends in ... More

A new report has called for a "major culture shift" in order to get older people more physically active. The Reimagining Ageing report, by ukactive, ... More

Indoor cycling has been identified as the most popular group workout in the UK – beating pilates and yoga – by a new industry report from ... More

Ray Algar, managing director of business insight specialist Oxygen Consulting, has called for the leisure sector to get better at understanding the data they hold ... More

Health club operators will benefit from the type of insights used by supermarkets to plan developments based on optimum location and size, following the launch ... More

A landmark study of the wider social value of public leisure facilities in Britain has shown they contribute more than £3.3bn (US$4.3bn, €3.7bn) a year ... More

More than 5.1 million Britons, including three-quarters-of-a-million schoolchildren, got active on National Fitness Day 2017, ukactive figures have revealed. This year the health body commissioned ... More

Growing numbers of leisure centre members are swapping traditional activities like swimming for spin bikes and other group workouts, a ukactive report has revealed. Data ... More

A wide-ranging facilities audit has been launched by Sport Wales in an attempt to improve its provision through “better informed investment decisions”. The grassroots sport ... More