public leisure news

According to the latest Moving Communities Impact Report visits to leisure centres are rising and there are encouraging signs of progress with tackling inequalities. The ... More

Mark Tweedie has joined the Devon-based Plymouth Active Leisure (PAL) board as a non-executive director a week after Justin Musgrove's appointment was announced. Tweedie has ... More

Leisure DB has released its State of the UK Swimming Industry Report 2025. In the UK 82.8 per cent of the population live within two ... More

Sport England has renewed the contract for its Moving Communities study for another four years. Going forward Moving Communities will follow the quango’s place-based agenda. ... More

The UK health and fitness industry is growing exponentially, with revenue up by 8.8 per cent in 2024 and penetration reaching 16.9 per cent. These ... More

According to a major Moving Communities study, participation in public leisure centre activities saved the NHS £397.8 million in 2023. The findings – analysed from ... 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

Moving Communities, the data platform which tracks participation at public leisure centres, has teamed up with Saturday morning 5k run organiser, Parkrun. This collaboration will ... More

The latest Moving Communities Impact Report from Sport England is out today (16 August) and includes two full years of operational data about public sector ... More

The HCM Summit, which will be held in London on 24 October, has announced EGYM as its Platinum Partner for the next three years. The ... More

Swimming pools need to be repositioned so they're prized as assets rather than considered a drain on budgets, says LeisureDB founder, David Minton. Introducing LeisureDB’s ... More

In the latest edition of HCM magazine, Mark Tweedie talks about his hopes for the health and fitness and physical activity sector, which he believes ... More

The first annual Private Sector Benchmarking report was released today (27 March). A collaboration between UK Active and 4Global, the aim of the research is ... More

Two new research reports have highlighted the impact of the UK's cost of living crisis on people's physical activity levels and there have been calls ... More

In an announcement made today in advance of tomorrow's Spring Budget (15 March), the UK government has pledged £63m to support publicly-owned swimming pools and ... More

Dave Wright, CEO of Myzone, has re-joined UK Active’s board of directors for a three-year term. He previously served from 2009 to 2014 and will ... 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

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

Sport England has released the Future of Public Sector Leisure report which looks at how to evolve the sector from a traditional leisure service into ... More

As the UK’s new prime minister Liz Truss prepares an energy bailout, UK Active has sent a letter to the government warning of a “major ... More

Key organisations from the UK’s leisure industry are lobbying the government for financial support to help operators manage the impact of rising energy prices. A ... More

Those looking to have a dip in Berlin's famous heated outdoor pools this summer will be in for a chilly surprise. Water temperatures at the ... More

Lobbying is gearing up in advance of the Spring Budget this week, with UK Active calling on the government to support the sector in tackling ... More

Two staff were injured and Twenty Six GLL leisure facilities had to close their doors on Friday 18 February, as Storm Eunice swept west across ... 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