England news

The Rugby Football League (RFL) has been awarded £660,000 from the Youth Endowment Fund to launch and evaluate Inspiring Futures – an initiative aiming to ... More

The latest edition of the highly-successful This Girl Can Campaign has been celebrated for its "taboo-busting" and "brave" take on what female fitness really looks ... More

Sport England is providing ukactive with funding that has allowed the non-profit organisation to expand its management team with four new appointments. According to ukactive, ... More

Swim England's Learn to Swim Programme has been adopted by a Lithuanian swimming club – marking the project's international entry. Plaukimo Klubas Banga contacted Swim ... More

Online fitness company LRG Fitness has launched a new on-demand service. LRG On Demand will offer access to a library of exercise videos, with each ... More

Former UK Sport chair, Baroness Sue Campbell, has received a damehood in this year's New Year's honours list. The long-time sports administrator – who was ... More

It has been another momentous year in the attractions industry, and Attractions Management has been there reporting the big news, good and bad, all the ... More

New figures show that Sport England's playing field safeguarding measures, designed to protect sports provision in planning applications affecting playing fields, have been successful in ... More

Sport England is investing in a programme which aims to offer children from some of the country's poorest areas the opportunity to get physically active. ... More

Plans for a £175m (US$228.7m, €205.7m) indoor tropical waterpark and spa in Manchester, UK, will have to wait until March for approval, with the local ... More

A push to get millions of more people to hit the pool in the UK has reached a significant landmark. At the start of the ... More

Mid-market health club operator Total Fitness has acquired Pro-Fit Personal Training. The deal follows a five-year partnership between the two companies and will result in ... More

England Netball has published its new Disability Strategy, in which it outlines plans to increase participation numbers among deaf and disabled women and girls. The ... More

More than 40 sports industry leaders from across the UK have signed an open letter urging the main political parties to address the “alarming public ... More

The Conservative Party has promised to invest £550m in grassroots football – if it wins the general election. The funding is part of a larger ... More

The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) and the English Premier League are partnering to encourage primary school children across England and Wales to celebrate ... More

Almost half of children and young people (46.8 per cent) in England are doing the recommended average of 60 or more minutes of physical activity ... More

The £18.1m (US$23.4m, €21.2m) renovation and reimagining of the Geffrye Museum of the Home in London, UK will come to fruition in Q3 2020, with ... More

English hotel collection, De Vere, has announced a partnership with JustBe Botanicals. Spas at De Vere Tortworth Court and De Vere Cotswold Water Park have ... More

Zara Hyde Peters will not take up her role as the next chief executive of UK Athletics as planned. The former international long-distance runner and ... More

The Institute of Swimming (IOS) is set to continue its Disney-inspired, fun swim sessions as part of a strategy to get more families into the ... More

Palazzo Daniele, in Italy's Gagliano del Capo, has been named the best new hotel in Europe at the Awards for Hospitality Experience and Design (AHEAD), ... More

England Athletics is looking to expand its Funetics programme across schools and the physical activity sector by actively looking for new partners to deliver the ... More

The Themed Entertainment Association (TEA) has announced the winners of its annual Thea awards, with the likes of Universal Orlando, Warner Bros World Abu Dhabi ... More

Sport England has published an update on its digital strategy, in which the grassroots organisation offers insight into its handling of Spogo, a now defunct ... More