Sport England news & features
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HCM issue 5 2016
The Sport England CEO talks to Matthew Campelli about the government’s new sporting strategy, and the opportunities this presents all physical activity providers
HCM issue 3 2016
How can you attract the hard-to-reach groups, and how do you make this pay?
HCM issue 3 2016
We’ve reached a tipping point in the healthy living revolution, with Healthy New Towns and Sporting Future two huge opportunities to embrace, says Liz Terry
HCM issue 3 2016
The coming together of sport and fitness – encapsulated in the new DCMS strategy – marks a huge opportunity for health clubs and leisure centres to play to their strengths and tap into new funding streams, says Kate Cracknell
HCM issue 2 2016
Dance-based fitness classes are booming. Hayley Price takes a look at how health clubs and leisure operators are responding to the growing variety of offerings on the market
HCM issue 2 2016
We’re consistently wrong about how much physical activity people actually do – and it affects our own inclination to exercise. Hannah Shrimpton reports on the findings of Ipsos Mori’s research
HCM Handbook 2016
Mobile developers and coding experts from across the UK are being invited to create an app that
“facilitates social change through sport” at the inaugural Sport England Sport Technology Awards
Hackathon.
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10 Aug 2015
The stats show that women are less active than men and more likely to drop out of sport. So how can the industry tackle this?
HCM issue 5 2015
ukactive strategy director Steven Ward considers what might be in store for the physical activity sector following the 2015 General Election
HCM issue 4 2015
Here come the girls – Matrix offers an overview of its initiatives to promote, develop and encourage women’s sport and activity
HCM issue 3 2015
Will 2015 prove to be a turning point for the health and physical activity sector? ukactive CEO David Stalker offers his thoughts
HCM Handbook 2015
The four words ‘everybody active, every day’ are more than just the name of PHE’s framework to combat inactivity: they’re also a rallying cry for our sector, says Kate Cracknell
HCM issue 1 2015
Will 2015 prove to be a turning point for the fitness and physical activity sector? ukactive CEO David Stalker offers his thoughts
HCM issue 1 2015
Researchers at the University of Wollongong (UOW) in Australia have developed
a smart bra which tightens and supports during exercise, using minuscule
sensors which detect breast movement.
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11 Dec 2014
The Child Protection in Sport Unit is turning its attention to helping the leisure sector put safeguards in place
HCM issue 8 2014
Could adopting a different approach to city design and planning help make the UK population healthier? Jacqueline Bennett reports
HCM issue 8 2014
The CEO of Life Leisure talks to Kate Cracknell about challenging the public health commissioners, and about totally rethinking the model of fitness facilities
HCM issue 8 2014
Key topics of discussion from this year's SIBEC UK event
HCM issue 7 2014
A scheme to get more disabled people into fitness careers, created by the charity behind the Aspire National Training Centre, is gathering pace. Rhianon Howells reports
HCM issue 6 2014
Lauren Applegarth looks at a council scheme to open multiple sites, each with their own specialism
HCM issue 4 2014
In the second part of our management series, Carl Bennett looks at the importance of understanding a community's needs
HCM issue 4 2014
The new director of health and wellbeing at Public Health England talks to Steven Ward about his mission to tackle the ‘wicked problem' of physical inactivity
HCM issue 2 2014
ukactive CEO David Stalker reports on how the latest round of spending cuts are likely to affect the physical activity sector
HCM issue 8 2013
Health and fitness operators must recognise and embrace the diverse 'tribes' that exist among their member base, says Kate Cracknell
HCM issue 7 2013
ukactive joins forces with Sport England to put more weight behind its drive to see a fitness professional in every GP surgery
HCM issue 5 2013
A new report into outdoor fitness found that 100 per cent of respondents were planning outdoor classes for 2013. We take a closer look at some of those plans
HCM issue 4 2013
Stakeholders are being encouraged to register and try out spogo, the main
digital legacy project for the 2012 Olympic Games now available online in beta mode. A customer-facing
online service, www.spogo.co.uk has been designed to make searching and finding physical activities as
simple as other consumer-friendly online services.
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27 Jul 2012
David Stalker, CEO of the Fitness Industry Association (FIA) has revealed
details of a new joint venture with Sport England which aims to secure a digital
legacy for the London 2012 Olympic Games.
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11 Apr 2012
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