Ten sporting organisations in Greater Manchester – including the County Sports Partnership and the Football Association – have collectively completed a tough assessment by Sport England’s leading quality scheme, Quest. Set up last year, the Greater Manchester Quest Consortium is made up of GreaterSport, the region’s...
Continue ReadingThe 2017 conference of Sport England’s leading quality scheme for sport and leisure is expected to be its biggest ever, following a venue change. For the second year running, the quality scheme Quest and its sister initiative the National Benchmarking Service (NBS) have partnered with the...
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Former Leicester Tigers and England International rugby player, Leon Lloyd will tell active-net 2017 delegates how he made the difficult transition into the ‘real world’ when injury ended his career in 2008. The now highly successful businessman will address delegates as the after dinner speaker at...
Continue ReadingA bold new project is being undertaken by the ukactive Research Institute to establish the extent to which exercise referrals can change behaviour and increase physical activity. ukactive is now calling on operators of exercise referral schemes to aid the three-year research initiative. The project, a...
Continue ReadingA new Exercise Referral App, launched by software specialist ReferAll, enables participants to book, cancel and amend their appointments online. The intuitive platform aims to reduce the ‘scheduling’ burden for both staff and participants when booking, arranging and re-arranging appointments. Exercise Referral staff have the assurance...
Continue ReadingMillwall Community Trust – the charitable arm of Millwall Football Club – has become the first organisation to receive a new ‘sport for development’ accreditation since the scheme was rolled out in June. Quest Sport for Development is aimed at agencies using sport to improve personal...
Continue ReadingThe introduction of a new unannounced assessment from Quest, the UK’s quality scheme from sport and leisure, is helping operators already registered with the scheme to take their service delivery to the next level. One of the requirements of Quest registration is that centres must undergo...
Continue Readingactive-net is offering a leg up for new businesses with the launch of Start-UP, an annual competition that will see one new supplier offered a free* place worth £2,000 at the business networking event each year. Launched in 2014 and managed by Leisure-net, the leading customer...
Continue ReadingLifetime Training, the multi-award winning training provider, has launched a new Beauty Academy in Brentwood. The Academy is part of an ambitious roll out to cities such as Manchester, Birmingham, London and Liverpool during 2016. The launch was attended by Academy suppliers Aston & Fincher and Your...
Continue ReadingLeading customer insight provider for the active leisure sector, Leisure-net has added a sales tool to its web-based e-Focus Customer Insight Platform on the DataHub. sales-Focus offers a unique set of tools to manage, monitor and measure results from the membership enquiry stage through to the...
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