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With between 18 and 30 per cent of the populations of developed countries living in rural locations, this market will be the next frontier for ... More

Mark Sesnan, co-founder and CEO of GLL (Greenwich Leisure Limited), has announced that he will be standing down as chief executive at the end of ... More

With an additional bank holiday announced in the UK out of respect for Queen Elizabeth II and to observe the state funeral on Monday 19 ... More

Mark Sesnan, co-founder and CEO of GLL, has been awarded an OBE in the New Year Honours List 2022. Sesnan founded the social enterprise in ... More

UK Health clubs, gyms, hotels, pubs and other leisure businesses will all receive a 50 per cent cut in business rates over the next year. ... More

Investigations by HCM have revealed a correlation between countries with lower obesity rates and those where governments have kept gyms open during lockdowns. HCM found ... More

Glasgow Life, which runs leisure and culture facilities on behalf of Glasgow City Council, has said that it will begin opening its gyms and fitness ... More

Technogym has announced the launch of live streaming and on-demand classes. The new content will be delivered via the Technogym Mywellness app. The service will ... 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

Pubs are to open before gyms, to the bitter disappointment of the health and fitness sector. Following a week of leaks and briefings, which indicated ... More

Leisure trust Vivacity, which terminated its contract with Peterborough City Council council last week, has confirmed it's lost £8m as a result of the COVID-19 ... More

Mark Tweedie has been named as the new CEO of Community Leisure UK (CLUK), the organisation representing charitable leisure trusts. Tweedie joins CLUK after spending ... More

Smithsonian Open Access, an initiative to provide copyright-free access to millions of digital collection images and data, has been launched, with anyone now able to ... More

A team led by Schmidt Hammer Lassen (SHL) is one of two left in the running to create a new library in Skien, Norway, with ... More

The City of Portland in Maine, US is investing in a customised wellness programme, which it will make available to its workforce. The local government ... More

When Perkins and Will (PW) bought Schmidt Hammer Lassen (SHL) last year, it knew it was getting the Danish firm's expertise in human-centred design. SHL's ... More

maison h have unveiled designs for a Winter Olympics Museum to be built in the mountains north of Beijing in Chongli, China, that is aimed ... More

Elizabeth de Portzamparc has argued that cultural buildings like libraries and museums shouldn't just preserve knowledge and heritage, but should forge social links too by ... More

Thai architects Onion have created a community reading space in Bangkok called Samyan Co-op that offers different types of seating and atmosphere to suit different ... More

Funding support for York's National Railway Museum, Coventry's 2021 UK City of Culture programme and infrastructure and maintenance work at local and regional museums across ... More

New York-based studio Love is Enough has created a new social and cultural destination with spaces to lounge, work and eat in a former railway ... More

The winners of the Museums + Heritage Awards were announced in London last night (15 May), with museums large and small being honoured and Sir ... More

Crowdfunding is being used to raise money for a pop-up climate change museum for the UK. The brainchild of cultural consultant Bridget McKenzie, Climate Museum ... More

The Chinese government has commissioned Scandinavian architecture firm Snøhetta to design the Shanghai Grand Opera House. Described by the architects as an "accessible canvas for ... More

Latest figures from the County Council Network (CCN), which represents all county councils in England, show that councils in England have seen their arts budgets ... More