Trafford residents were treated to a special surprise when celebrity personal trainer, Pierre Pozzuto, head coach at London’s famous Third Space health club, dropped in to the borough’s local leisure centres to teach his classes. The five group exercise classes, which took place on Saturday 30...
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Blackpool Council has outsourced its leisure marketing and business development in a bid to increase its commercial focus, using strategic marketing to promote health and wellbeing to the local community. Leisure marketing specialist, Bigwave media has won the contract to support the council in the expansion...
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Changes at the top have seen former Regional Sales Manager, Andrew Marshall, promoted to Pre Sales Architect at Gladstone Software. The brand new role will see Marshall take a three-pronged attack, creating a seamless link between customers, the entire sales team and Gladstone’s development team, whilst...
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With the industry showing no slow down in the redevelopment of old, outdated leisure centres and the launch of boutique and low cost health clubs, Createability has bolstered its team of 39 with four new joiners. Mark Beckett has been appointed as Mechanical and Electrical Technical...
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A new app enabling Exercise on Referral (EOR) clients to fill out questionnaires online could collectively save operators millions of pounds, according to its developer, software specialist ReferAll. The app massively reduces staff administration, freeing up valuable time for them to concentrate supporting clients through a...
Continue ReadingA one-day conference to examine how operators and active communities teams can increase participation and reduce inactivity in line with the Government’s latest sports strategy will take place in October. Making it Happen, the third Active Communities Conference organised by Quest, Sport England’s industry improvement and...
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Gloucestershire’s Jumptastic has become the first trampoline park to undergo Quest, the sport and leisure industry’s leading quality scheme. In addition to Quest Plus status, Jumptastic also achieved Right Directions’ new Trampoline Park Quality Mark - the first of its kind to be awarded in the...
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In 1992 Life Leisure established one of the first Exercise on Referral (EOR) schemes in the country. Called PARiS (Physical Activity Referral in Stockport), it is a joint partnership between the trust and NHS Stockport. Following a conversation with a commissioner early in 2014, the...
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Community Interest Company (CIC), Brio Leisure has demonstrated the success of its Exercise on Referral (EOR) Smoking Cessation and Weight Management programmes with an impressive set of annual statistics. Over the last financial year, uptake rates are over 80% for both EOR and Weight Management programmes....
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Bigwave media will be helping clients to increase secondary revenue and tackle the obesity crisis on a local level through targeted food and beverage strategies and procurement. The new service offering comes as Theresa England is announced as the leisure marketing agency’s Contract and Partnerships Manager....
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