Manchester news

With Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, announcing his resignation this morning and Andy Burnham as a possible successor, the fitness, health and wellness sector is evaluating ... More

Freedom Leisure and Ebbsfleet Garden City Trust have opened the £13 million Weldon Wellbeing Pavilion – a new community wellbeing and sports facility. Weldon Wellbeing ... More

PureGym is encouraging people to step away from their screens and go for a walk, in a new initiative timed to coincide with Mental Health ... More

Therme Manchester’s 28-acre development, which will include interconnected glass pavilions that measure 65,000sq m, will be the largest bathing and wellbeing attraction in the world ... More

The Yard Gym (TYG) is to become Nike Training’s official global training partner in a new global partnership. The two will co-create training experiences, activations ... More

Therme Group’s Romanian bathing resort Therme Bucharest is currently hosting its Herbarium Festival (4-17 May), offering guests a chance to explore sauna and steamroom experiences ... More

Manchester City Council has launched an ambitious programme to offer free gym memberships and access to fitness classes for 11- to 16-year-old secondary school pupils. ... More

Therme Manchester has signed up to the Circularity in Practice pledge, which is a UK-wide sustainable manufacturing initiative to make 'reuse' the default construction method, ... More

Trafford Leisure has launched a 12-month pilot of Hydrohex – the Finnish virtual aqua fitness system – to expand pool programming and addresses problems caused ... More

Hot on the heels of launching its first London site, Everlast Gyms opened a flagship location at Manchester Trafford Palazzo this weekend. The 28,000 square ... More

PureGym has focused on the post-exercise, feel-good glow in an advertising campaign that launched on Christmas Day across tv, radio, in cinemas and social media. ... More

The Gym Group has announced it will expand its partnership pilot with Wellhub ahead of the January rush and will finish the year with seven ... More

Everlast Gyms+ will be opening a site at shopping and leisure destination, Trafford Palazzo, early next year. The 28,000 square foot site will be one ... More

Be Well Wigan Council has introduced a new evidence-based, healthy ageing programme that aligns with national and international guidelines.  Developed by clinical exercise physiologist, Dr. ... More

The UK government has announced a National Youth Strategy, backed by £500 million, to rebuild youth services, train youth workers and other professionals to support ... More

Therme Group has acquired three renowned German thermal spas in Euskirchen, Sinsheim and Titisee-Neustadt from the Josef Wund Foundation. The transaction, which is still subject ... More

Independent operator, Fitness Worx, will open a site in Rugby, UK on 6 December. The self-funded chain was founded by former bodybuilder and PT, Jack ... More

Sport England has announced 27 new partnerships that will benefit from its place-based approach, which aims to reduce the postcode lottery by targeting areas of ... More

Nuffield Health is set to roll out its new Long-Term Conditions Rehabilitation Programme, aiming to offer 50,000 free places across the UK every year from ... More

Construction management company Sir Robert McAlpine has been appointed to lead the development of the Therme Manchester project in the UK, which is slated to ... More

NRG Gyms has announced the acquisition of Pump Gyms, expanding its UK estate from seven to 12 sites and almost doubling the number of members. ... More

Trafford, in Greater Manchester, UK, has a new wellbeing facility following a £20 million upgrade by operator Trafford Leisure, to improve provision and sustainability. Supported ... More

The finalists of the UK Active Awards 2025 have been announced today (19 August) following a record number of entries from across the UK’s physical ... More

A new clinic will open soon in Manchester UK offering science-backed health optimisation therapies, elite physiotherapy services and aesthetic wellness treatments. The team of healthcare ... More

Everlast Gyms is nearing the launch a new London Flagship, along with three other flagship gyms in Liverpool, Manchester and Dublin that will showcase the ... More