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Manchester Metropolitan University and the UK Sports Institute have joined forces to launch the Centre of Excellence for Women in Sport: a global hub for ... More

EuropeActive is launching a new event dedicated to promoting health-enhancing physical activity and its impact on communities and individuals. The Exercise for Health Summit (EfHS) ... More

Nike is ramping up its plans to grow market share in the health and fitness and wellness market with the launch of a new initiative ... More

Educational company, CAWS, has launched a new programme to help educate trainers on how to support members recovering from COVID-19. The company launched in July ... More

Prince Harry has launched a mental fitness support initiative for veterans and people working in the defense industry. Called HeadFIT for Life, the initiative's website is ... More

Scotland's new multi-million pound Regional Performance Centre for Sport has opened in Dundee. The £32m multi-sport facility houses a full-size indoor artificial pitch and an ... More

The new National Tennis Academy at Loughborough University has officially opened its doors to the next generation of talented British tennis players. Developed by the ... More

Robert Gordon University (RGU) has launched a new degree aimed at helping exercise professionals "change the public’s perspective of exercise and keeping fit". The new ... More

England Rugby has teamed up with Virgin Active to create a training programme aimed at improving physical strength and mental wellbeing. Devised by the Rugby ... More

School summer holidays are creating a class divide between the fitness levels of deprived children and their more affluent peers thanks to a lack of ... More

Dame Katherine Grainger, the incoming chair of UK Sport, has dismissed calls to review the quango’s ‘no compromise’ approach despite 11 sports claiming that the ... More

Nik Diaper, the former head of sport science and medicine for Paralympic sport at the English Institute of Sport (EIS), has joined the British Paralympic ... More

Ten teams have been selected to compete in the new Women’s Super Rugby competition, as the game’s governing body steps up its efforts to improve ... More

More than £5m (US$6.1m, €5.8m) in funding has been earmarked for potential British Tokyo 2020 Olympic athletes by the support programme set up by leisure ... More

British Swimming has made changes to the way its National Centres operate in an attempt to capitalise on a strong Rio 2016 Olympic Games. From ... More

UK-based DNA profiling company DNAFit will start offering its services to members of the Gold’s Gym health club chain in Egypt. The partnership deal, signed ... More

The organisation behind Team GB’s sport science and medicine programme will plough more of its resource into maintaining the mental health of elite athletes. In ... More

The charitable arm of Greenwich Leisure Limited (GLL) has produced a £1.2m (US$1.7m, €1.5m) funding pot for 2,000 young athletes hoping to make the Olympic ... More

Architects are being invited to submit “sustainable” stadium plans in a competition to design a new ground for non-league football club Forest Green Rovers. The ... More

Nottingham has been named as the latest host city for the Amateur Swimming Association’s (ASA) Beacon Programme – the body’s elite swimming pathway. The city ... More

Sport England’s National Sport Centre at Bisham Abbey has benefitted from a £7m facelift of its facilities. Funded by Sport England National Lottery funding, the ... More

Celebrity fitness advisor and sports and exercise science expert Professor Greg Whyte is to become the first chair of the ukactive Research Institute’s Scientific Advisory ... More

Steve Cram is to step down as from his role of chair of the English Institute of Sport (EIS) after more than 10 years. UK ... More

Wolverhampton Wanderers FC has opened a £1m interactive museum in the new Stan Cullis Stand at Molineux Stadium. Wolves Museum features 25,000 pieces of memorabilia, ... More

Image: Thomas Rieger will take over the Standards Council European Health and Fitness Association (EHFA), has appointed Dr Thomas Rieger as the new chair of ... More