Abigail Harris, Author at BigFish

15th September 2015

£2million funding boost for local communities to help get women, older people and inactive groups into sport

Areas benefitting from the scheme include: Tadcaster, Newcastle, south Dorset, Exeter, Northampton, County Durham, Lincolnshire, Stockton on Tees, Test Valley, Sheffield, Tandridge, Ashford, Newham, South Downs, Dover and Northumberland. Older people, women, and inactive groups in England are set to benefit from thousands of pounds in...

10th September 2015

In Bigwave media

Bigwave Media expands the team further

Bigwave Media is continuing its eight-year period of growth with the appointment of David Johns as Business Development Manager. Formerly working as a Partnership Development Manager with sport and exercise charity Active Nation, Johns, 54, has enjoyed a long career in sports and exercise management, across...

5th September 2015

In Retention Guru, The Gym Group

The Gym Group launches price-based retention model

Retention Guru, Dr. Paul Bedford and Rob Gregory, former global director of member experience at Fitness First, have created a statistical model for The Gym Group to understand the impact of price changes on behaviour and to predict future outcomes for the business. The data model,...

30th August 2015

In Leisure-net

Leisure-net launches new industry networking event for 2016

Leading leisure insight specialist, Leisure-net Solutions is launching a new industry networking event. Innovate 2016 will be a one-day event for organisations looking for new and innovative activities to enhance both participation and income streams. Building on Leisure-net’s successful two-day active-net conference, Innovate 2016 will take...

28th August 2015

In Lifetime Training

Lifetime Training takes fitness ‘naked’ at Fitness Directors’ Summit

Lifetime Training encouraged top industry operators to get ‘naked’ at its sixth annual Fitness Directors’ Summit. The theme focussed on ‘stripping’ back to the corporate ‘bare’ essentials, to review what is at the heart of each business and why it is being delivered in this way:...

25th August 2015

In Leisure-net, Quest, Sport England

Leisure centres see financial upswing but throughput falls

There has been a remarkable improvement in the financial efficiency of leisure centres across the UK, according to an annual report released by Sport England’s National Benchmarking Service (NBS) – but there is still much work to be done to increase usage and widen participation...

20th August 2015

In Right Directions

Expansion for quality and health & safety specialist Right Directions

Quality and health and safety specialist Right Directions has welcomed four new members to its team. Tricia Lewis, 69, joins the company from 1Life Management Solutions where she was Head of Health, Safety and Quality, a national role with Corporate responsibility all sites. Lewis has been...

15th August 2015

In Oldham Community Leisure

Local lifeguard recognised at one of the UK’s top 50 workers

Local lifeguard, Janet Appleyard has been honoured as one of Britain’s best older workers in People Management magazine’s top 50 over 50 workers. Janet, 61, came 7th in the prestigious awards, which included names like Prof. Stephen Hawkins, as well as a Lord, a Dame, doctors,...

10th August 2015

In ReferAll

Customer support and integration teams expanded at Refer-all

Refer-all, specialist in software solutions for exercise referral has added two new personnel to its customer support and integration teams. Chief Support Officer, Hannah Bacon, is tasked with enhancing the fast and efficient service for which Refer-all is renowned. Alongside managing the support desk, Bacon provides...

9th August 2015

In Right Directions

STITCH Accident Benchmarking Tool first State of the Nation Statistics

Most accidents are outside of operators’ control, according to statistics from industry accident benchmarking platform STITCH. The online leisure management analysis tool, which captures, collates and aggregates accident and 'near miss' data, has published its first annual findings. Overarching figures from the ‘STITCH of the Nation’statistics show...