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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

Grassroots sport and exercise boost the UK economy by £36.2 billion every year, according to Sport England’s latest social value of sport and exercise research. ... More

According to a new report by McKinsey Health Institute, the potential social and economic impacts of new weight management drugs extend beyond healthcare. The authors ... More

The UK government has got behind Joe Wicks’ latest initiative – Activate – a new animated series of five minute workouts for kids. Wicks – ... More

The Health and Fitness Association (formerly IHRSA) is calling on US club operators and members to reach out to their elected officials in support of ... More

The UK's Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has announced £900 million for major sporting events and grassroots sports across the UK, as part ... More

UK Active and Swim England are urging the government to provide support for swimming pools and leisure centres as part of the upcoming Comprehensive Spending ... More

The UK government has announced £100 million of new funding to support grassroots sports and physical activity, targeting deprived areas and supporting participation among under-represented ... More

Sport England has announced investment into 53 areas highlighted in the top 10 per cent of the UK in terms of inactivity, social need, deprivation ... More

More than 700 world-class leaders across health, wellbeing, technology and business are set to gather at The Lake Nona Impact Forum in Orlando, Florida, this ... More

UK Active has written to chancellor, Rachel Reeves, asking for measures to offset the cost increases the fitness sector will incur as a result of ... More

Chanchellor, Rachel Reeves, talked about fixing the NHS and rebuilding Britain in the budget, but failed to give any detail about the role sport and ... More

Lisa Nandy, secretary of state at the UK government's Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) gave a speech to the sector this week at ... More

In a bid to get girls more active, Nuffield Health has launched a campaign, Move Together, encouraging parents to exercise with their daughters. Nuffield Health ... More

Thirty one per cent of adults worldwide – approximately 1.8 billion people – did not meet the recommended levels of physical activity in 2022, according ... More

Global restaurant brand, Subway, has teamed up with GB Basketball, Breaking GB and Skateboard GB to promote physical activity in these three emerging sports. The ... More

The UK government has declared that boys and girls should have equal access to sports in schools, and is asking schools to dedicate at least ... More

The UK government has announced it will be scaling back financial support for businesses as part of the updated Energy Bill Relief Scheme (EBRS). Treasury ... More

A report issued by the UK Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has accused Sport England of losing track of how £1.05bn in grants have been ... More

Construction work has begun on a £13m community sports hub in Barking, East London. The new facility will replace the existing Parsloes Park Sports Pavilion ... More

A number of UK local authorities and their leisure management partners are in crisis due to rising energy costs, with 40 per cent saying leisure ... More

The Football Foundation is to invest 40 per cent of its total funding over the next three years in multi-sport facility projects. Worth a projected ... More

Hotel giant Accor has launched a new podcast series exploring hot topics in wellbeing with cutting edge speakers from a wide range of fields. Health ... More

Sport England says it's introducing "new and innovative" ways to increase participation – by doing a better job of listening to local communities and networks ... More

A "significant majority" of the UK's swimming teachers and aquatic professionals feel that swimming excludes some groups and communities. The finding comes from a study ... More