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7th March 2016

In Leisure-net, Quest, Sport England

Quest announces exciting changes to support new government strategy

Quest, the sport and leisure industry’s leading quality scheme, has announced a raft of changes aimed at making it even stronger and more relevant, in line with both government and Sport England thinking. The changes, unveiled at the annual Quest & NBS Conference in Loughborough on 10 February, will be rolled out this autumn and are designed to support Sport England as it works towards the goals of the government’s new strategy on sport. Caroline Constantine, Quest’s...

2nd February 2016

In Right Directions

Right Directions offers guidance around new health and safety fines

Rather than posing a threat, the new sentencing guidelines for safety offences, which came into effect on 1 February 2016, should provide an easy reference for operators, who until now may not have fully understood the implications of a lack or disregard of health and safety. The figures from our latest industry accident benchmarking tool STITCH show that 84% of recorded incidents, such as running into a squash racquet, colliding with a wall during 5 a...

30th January 2016

In Leisure-net

Public starting to understand correlation between activity and health says HAFOS

The public are truly beginning to understand the importance of physical activity in improving or maintaining health, according to the Health and Fitness Omnibus Survey (HAFOS), which saw a leap from 25% of people citing this as their motive to exercise in 2011 to 55% of people in 2015. The stats are part of a six-year review of HAFOS released by Leisure-net Solutions ahead of this year’s research, which will take place in March and focus...

30th January 2016

In Right Directions

Oxygen Freejumping and Right Directions join forces to create sector safety guidelines

Oxygen Freejumping, the UK’s largest trampoline park operator, has joined forces with health and safety and quality management expert, Right Directions, to create a Trampoline Park Safety Operating Plan (TPSOP). Right Directions, which delivers Sport England’s quality scheme Quest, as well as ukactive’s Code of Practice, has been working with Oxygen Freejumping since July 2015 to develop specific guidance for trampoline parks, similar to the industry-recognised swimming pool guidance. Following a risk assessment process, the TPSOP sets...

29th January 2016

In Impulse Leisure

The Gym Hub shortlisted for marketing awards

Essex-based charitable leisure trust Impulse Leisure has been shortlisted for a prestigious national marketing award for its work on the new budget gym, The Gym Hub in Wickford. Organised by the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM), the CIM Marketing Excellence Awards recognise and celebrate excellence within marketing. Impulse Leisure are a finalist in the Brand Experience Award category for their branding of The Gym Hub, successful pre-launch campaign and on-going brand experience. Impulse Leisure’s internal marketing team...

28th January 2016

In Precor, ukactive

Focus on solutions at education round table

Heads of leisure and education came together for Precor’s third annual round table event in January, where experts debated the challenges and recommendations for engaging young people in physical activity. The event, hosted by leading fitness equipment supplier and manufacturer Precor, was chaired by Dave Stalker, CEO of ukactive. The live panel included Karen Rotary from BUCS, Ellen Rowles from Skills Active and Paul Dickinson from 3D Leisure, as well as attendees from a range of...

25th January 2016

In Lifetime Training

Lifetime Training prioritises customer care with ICS course

Lifetime Training has prioritised customer care by working with the Institute of Customer Service (ICS), the independent professional membership body for customer service, to launch new courses in customer service training for Managers and Frontline teams. An associate member of ICS, Lifetime Training recently enrolled its own Commercial Customer Services Team onto the ICS FirstImpressions course. The training programme has been designed to develop customer service knowledge, skills and understanding for those who deliver customer service...

24th January 2016

In FitPro

New Middle East distributor for MOSSA

FitPro has announced that (MEESA) Middle East Exercise Sports Academy is to become the new distributor for MOSSA in the Middle East MOSSA produces in-club group exercise programmes with regular quarterly releases that maintain motivation for instructors and participants. The programmes can be branded by the club for differentiation, feature PPL licence-free music and boast an easy transition structure for instructors already teaching other group classes. The MOSSA series of group fitness programmes have been carefully designed...

24th January 2016

In Lifetime Training

Award winning training company launches new beauty qualification

Lifetime Training, the multi-award winning training provider, is launching a new range of accredited qualifications for Beauty Therapists. Initially their Level 2 and 3 Beauty Therapy Diploma will be offered through three new Lifetime Beauty Academies in Birmingham, Manchester and Brentwood, with a wider roll out to cities such as London and Liverpool during 2016. Celebrating its twentieth year in business Lifetime Training is renowned for its innovative approach to training, putting the quality of the learner’s...

20th January 2016

In Gladstone Health & Leisure

New MD for Gladstone amid internal moves

Tom Withers has been promoted to Gladstone Health and Leisure’s Managing Director. Withers, previously Gladstone’s Sales and Marketing Director, has worked for the market leading software provider for 17 years. The shift comes as Arthur Morris, Gladstone’s previous Managing Director for the past four years, moves up with the Jonas Group to become a Business Unit Manager, overseeing nine companies within the UK including SDA, TRP and CAP2. Morris will work closely with all the brands and...