The Gym Hub in Wickford has beaten off competition from hundreds of gyms across the UK to be shortlisted for a prestigious fitness industry award. The national awards are organised by leading fitness industry magazine Workout, with support from headline sponsor ServiceSport, and up to seven...
Read MoreAreas 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...
Read MoreBigwave 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...
Read MoreRetention 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,...
Read MoreLeading 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...
Read MoreLifetime 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:...
Read MoreThere 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...
Read MoreQuality 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...
Read MoreLocal 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,...
Read MoreRefer-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...
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