Oliver Dowden news

Nadine Dorries has replaced Oliver Dowden as the Secretary of State for Digital, Media, Culture and Sport in the UK – becoming the 10th person ... More

Discount rail and bus travel and £10m in vouchers to key attractions – funded by the National Lottery – are among the measures announced in ... More

Ten creative teams from across the UK have been selected to develop a series of events, public engagement programmes and virtual projects for the Festival ... More

The UK government has announced an independent review to assess the way destination management organisations (DMO) operate across England. The review, led by Nick de ... More

Some of the UK’s largest arts and heritage organisations have been given a lifeline in the form of £165m worth of emergency loans. The loans ... More

Major spectator sports in England will receive a combined £300m emergency cash injection to protect their immediate futures over the winter period. The Sports Winter ... More

Hundreds of heritage attractions and organisations in England will share a £103m government rescue fund to help them through the COVID-19 pandemic. The funding, announced ... More

The UK government has provided a lengthy response to a petition which demanded that gyms stay open in England, even if there's a new spike ... More

The government has pledged to invest £100m in supporting public leisure centres this winter, as part of a £1bn additional support package for local councils. ... More

Health clubs, swimming pools, leisure centres and other indoor sports facilities have reopened to the public for the first time since March. In order to ... More

England and Scotland have become the most recent countries to announce their spas will reopen, following a hard-fought campaign by industry associations, operators and the ... More

The UK's fitness industry can finally get back to business on Saturday 25 July, following the government's announcement today (9 July) that gyms and leisure ... More

HCM understands a decision on reopening dates for gyms and also for spas will be made today at a one-off government press briefing by culture ... More

Industry body ukactive has today (1 July) hosted a delegation of government and public health officials on visits to a number of gyms and leisure ... More

Momentum is gathering pace in the push for a U-turn on the government's decision to open pubs before gyms, with the industry and consumers joining ... More

Gyms in the UK could reopen by mid-July, according to a tweet, just posted by culture minister, Oliver Dowden. In a bid to contain the ... More

UK spas will continue to remain closed until further notice, following an announcement by Prime Minister Boris Johnson today (23 June 2020). There were already ... More

The UK government has given its clearest signal yet it may be about to announce gyms can reopen early in July. At a Downing Street ... More

Baroness Martha Lane-Fox, Sir Nicholas Serota and former BBC and ITV chief Lord Grade are among a new post-COVID-19 taskforce, aimed at getting the country’s ... More

Leisure centre operators are facing crisis point without access to emergency government funding or support, the Local Government Association (LGA) has warned. The LGA has ... More

The UK government has begun stepping up its plans for the return of sport, according to culture secretary Oliver Dowden. Dowden revealed that the DCMS ... More

The UK government has launched a "major effort" to tackle loneliness and social isolation during the coronavirus outbreak. Led by Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden, the ... More

A total of £195m of National Lottery funding has been made available to help the sport and physical activity sectors through the ongoing coronavirus (Covid-19) ... More

The UK's Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee (DCMS) will meet this week to hear from charities over the level of government support needed to ... More

Almost 700 figures from arts and cultural organisations across the UK have raised objections to the UK government's decision to withdraw from Creative Europe (CE), ... More