kids active news

UK Active and Nike have launched the 2022 Open Doors programme. The scheme provides children and young people with the opportunity to connect, be active, ... More

The government has pledged to invest more than £10m to open school sports and swimming facilities in England to the public in the evenings, at ... More

ukactive Kids and sports equipment giant Nike have launched a service designed to help children achieve the recommended target of 60 minutes of daily exercise ... More

Les Mills has made its Born to Move programming – which targets children as young as two – available in box set mode. The move ... More

The fitness of children falls dramatically during the holidays – but the problem could be solved by keeping school sports facilities open during the summer ... More

Enjoyment is the single biggest factor in motivating children to be active – while "physically literate" children do twice as much activity. These are among ... More

Primary school staff that are helping and inspiring children in London to be active are to be celebrated in a new initiative from ukactive Kids ... More

All primary schools in England could be offered the opportunity to get involved in the Daily Mile fitness programme, after the initiative secured a £1.5m ... More

More than £346m in "wasted" childcare funding should be used to get children more active and fight the growing epidemic of health issues among the ... More

Never underestimate the positive social and mental effects of activity – that was the message to parents from Colin Jackson CBE and Darcey Bussell CBE ... More

Imoves - a digital teaching platform to help get schools active - has been named inaugural winner of ukactive’s innovation accelerator programme ActiveLab. Beating 11 ... More

The first 12 physical activity disruptors to benefit from the ActiveLab startup mentoring scheme have been named. Set up by not-for-profit health body ukactive, ActiveLab ... More

Fitness instructor Mr Motivator has said he’s on a new mission to tackle youth inactivity and believes he has the perfect solution in the form ... More

Disney and Creative England have named Liverpool-based tech firm Citrus Suite as the winner of an £80,000 development fund to create an app that inspires ... More

Spafinder Wellness 365 announced its 2016 Spa & Wellness Top Ten Trends Forecast in a webinar yesterday (12 January), identifying health, fitness, technology and cultural ... More

Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and the entire Looney Tunes gang could soon be putting UK kids through their paces as part of a new collaboration ... More

Les Mills UK has added four new members to its team as it gears up for a busy couple of months in terms of events ... More

Fit For Sport commercial director Paul Bowman, is set to leave the company this month to take up a new post with virtual group exercise ... More

Oldham Community Leisure (OCL) has appointed two new health and physical activity development officers to work within their health and wellbeing team. The officers will ... More

Active Nation has launched a new signature event designed to get more children active. The 'Active Nation Kids Tryathlon' is a series of events running ... More

Youngsters interested in taking part in this year's Suffolk Youth Games are being called to training this week. The event focuses on those who don't ... More

Interactive gaming attraction provider MagiQuest has opened its newest site at the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota, US. The 12,000sq ft adventure complex is ... More

The Child's Play family activity centre in Las Vegas, which opened earlier this year, has now unveiled its latest innovation - a new GestureTek WallFX ... More

More than 177,000 young people have taken part in Sport Unlimited, a programme aiming to get more youngsters playing sport outside of school. The £36m ... More