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4th September 2026

VIPs help celebrate the reopening of Waterlooville Leisure Centre’s gym following major £500k refurbishment

VIPs, sporting legends and Horizon Leisure customers gathered to celebrate the reopening of Waterlooville Leisure Centre’s gym at the end of August following a £500,000 refurbishment designed to boost regional health and community fitness. Former Great Britain Olympic swimmer Katy Sexton MBE took centre stage to cut the opening ribbon. The launch event also featured plenty of entertainment on the gym floor. Horizon Leisure’s staff went head-to-head in a friendly gym challenge, alongside interactive gym floor taster...

4th September 2026

Oldham Active partners with Oldham College to inspire the next generation of sports and fitness professionals

Oldham Active and Oldham College have developed an innovative Workforce Academy, designed to bridge the gap between education and employment. It offers sports and fitness students from Oldham College the opportunity to gain work experience through structured placements alongside industry-specific qualifications. With similarities to an apprenticeship model, the students divide their time between college-based learning and practical experience on site. The Workforce Academy welcomed its first cohort of 12 students earlier this year, with the programme...

10th August 2026

Mytime Active helps families make their money go further this summer

Leisure trust, Mytime Active, is rolling out free breakfasts, discounted activities and low-cost family sessions this summer, to help families stay active without straining household budgets. The summer programme is designed to lower barriers to physical activity at a time when many families are cutting back on discretionary spending, but still juggling how to keep children entertained over the six-week break. Free breakfasts are available on Monday to Friday from 9.15am to 10.15am at The Pavilion Leisure...

23rd July 2026

Top score for Mytime Active’s golf courses

Mytime Active’s golf courses have never been busier, following a £75,000 investment over the last year, with figures revealing a surge in players teeing off and hitting the driving ranges. This summer’s glorious weather looks set to keep the momentum going. From March 2025 to March this year almost 700,000 rounds of golf were played on Mytime Active’s courses, that’s around 50 million balls! Just under half a million balls were also hit at its driving...

9th July 2026

Horizon Leisure invests £500,000 in ‘new-look’ gym at Waterloovillle Leisure Centre

Horizon Leisure is investing £500,000 in a complete transformation of its gym at Waterlooville Leisure Centre. Funded exclusively by the charitable leisure trust, this major upgrade includes brand new cardio equipment being installed on the mid floor, a full strength upgrade on the ground floor and a refreshed free weights area with new racks and layout. There will also be a new 10-metre sprint track on the top floor along with self-powered cardio and functional equipment,...

7th July 2026

12 months free swimming from Oldham Active to boost school children’s water safety and health

Tragic recent drownings during the summer heatwaves have highlighted the critical importance of water safety, prompting Oldham Active to remind schools of its free swimming initiative. Schools that sign up for its Swim School programme unlock 12 months of free pool access for their pupils. Since launching four years ago, the ongoing programme has helped more than 2,000 local children practice vital safety skills through regular practice outside of school hours. Swimming and water safety are...

2nd July 2026

Charity digitalises referral process to increase access to cancer support for young adults

A national charity has partnered with the social prescribing, exercise and wellbeing referral platform, ReferAll, to give more young adults diagnosed with cancer access to its life-changing health and wellbeing support. The Ella Dawson Foundation supports young adults aged 18 to 30, their families and carers, through tailored psychological, emotional, physical, nutritional and wellbeing support at any stage of cancer. Working with healthcare professionals and people with lived experience, the Foundation helps young people rebuild confidence,...

23rd June 2026

BC SoftWear expands its presence in Middle East

BC SoftWear has appointed its first dedicated staff member in the Middle East. Alba Oliveras joins the brand as Regional Manager to help grow BC SoftWear’s presence across the GCC region, which includes Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE. Oliveras brings extensive local experience in hospitality, having worked in the industry since moving to the UAE in 2009. Her experience spans business development, marketing, PR and sales, with a focus on strategy, storytelling...

28th May 2026

CoverMe extends matching engine into personal training, rewriting how members and personal trainers connect

CoverMe, the global leader in fitness workforce management, today launches CoverMe PT, an on-demand personal training platform that connects the right personal trainer to the right client in under 10 seconds. At the centre of the launch is CoverMe’s AI matching engine. Built and refined over four years across millions of instructor-to-club matches, it now powers personal training too, learning from every booking, cancellation and session and getting smarter each time. CoverMe PT is the second product...

27th May 2026

Mytime Active celebrates 21 years leading Team Bromley in London Youth Games

Mytime Active is celebrating 21 years supporting Team Bromley at the London Youth Games as they are crowned the 2026 ParaGames swimming champions at the leisure trust’s Spa at Beckenham. In total, 76 young people from 13 London boroughs took part in the ParaGames swimming competition in May. Bromley claimed both boys’ and girls’ team gold, winning medals across a range of categories throughout the day. The Bromley team included 15 young people aged between 12 and...

26th May 2026

Oldham Active’s ‘lifesaving’ REACH programme hits 20-year milestone

A pioneering partnership between Oldham Active and NHS Greater Manchester Integrated Care is celebrating a monumental landmark as its REACH exercise referral programme enters its 20th year of transforming lives across the borough. Since its launch, REACH (Referrals Encouraging Activity, Confidence and Health) has supported 3,906 local people recovering from life-impacting conditions, including cardiac and pulmonary issues, as well as those recovering from long Covid and peripheral vascular disease. The group functional exercise programme is specifically designed...

19th May 2026

Mytime Active helps decrease loneliness by more than two thirds

To mark Loneliness Awareness Week (15-21 June) Mytime Active has released figures from its community outreach projects, showing its initiatives increase contact with other people and decrease both isolation and loneliness in the communities it serves by 69%. Research by the Marmalade Trust , which spearheads Loneliness Awareness Week, shows that half a million older people (over 65) go at least five days a week without seeing or speaking to anyone at all. The number of...