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ReferAll announces price cuts to help leisure operators struggling with budgets

The UK’s leading exercise referral and wellbeing services platform, ReferAll, is reducing its pricing this year, in a bid to help leisure operator customers who are finding it difficult to cope with spiralling costs.   With the physical activity industry under immense pressure and budgets particularly tight, ReferAll has adapted its pricing structure for 2024 to ensure its exercise referral software is accessible to anyone who wants to use the system. It has introduced a new tiered...

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Give your body a free New Year MOT at Mytime Active

We wouldn’t dream of driving our cars for years on end without a regular service, so why do we expect our bodies to keep performing without getting the once over from a health expert? Mytime Active is now offering free Health Assessments for all its members – a 45-minute, full-body check, providing a confidential analysis of your overall health and fitness. Carried out by Mytime Active’s fully qualified fitness team, the Health Assessments include height, weight and waist...

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Oldham Active partners with Oldham College to provide specialist support for local children and young people

Oldham Active (Oldham Community Leisure), which manages the leisure facilities in the borough, is partnering with Oldham College to upskill its staff to provide specialist health and fitness support for local children and young people looking to use the leisure facilities, ahead of the launch of new young people-only group exercise classes in the new year. The partnership will initially see 30 members of Oldham Active’s workforce completing the specialist Level 2 Qualification in Leading Physical...

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BC SoftWear tackles sustainability, one bathrobe at a time

The hospitality industry remains focused on seeking new ways to meet sustainability targets and become ever more environmentally friendly, according to BC SoftWear.   New figures released by the leading towelling supplier reveal that almost half (45%) the bathrobes selected by hotels in 2023 were from its eco-friendly SupremeSoft range, compared to just 17% in 2019. BC SoftWear’s energy saving ranges – SupremeSoft and SmartKnit – now equate to 20% of turnover; this figure was just 8%...

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Fitter Stock launches new e-commerce platform offering instant access to on-demand fitness and wellness content

Fitter Stock, the white-label digital health, wellness and fitness content provider, has launched a revolutionary e-commerce platform, giving a range of health and fitness providers instant access to premium downloadable wellness content from anywhere in the world at any time.   The ‘build your own’ subscription service enables immediate access to an extensive library of content, which extends beyond fitness, encompassing the worldwide health agenda and addressing holistic wellbeing, including sleep, nutrition, fitness and mental health, including...

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Join the Quest brigade

Sport England’s quality assurance scheme, Quest, which has been defining industry standards and good practice for more than 25 years, is on the look out for new assessors. With so many of the UK’s 2,000+ leisure centres now undertaking Quest, and the number steadily rising, opportunities for new assessors to join the team are currently available. Sarah Lobo is Head of External Accreditations at Right Directions, which manages Quest on behalf of Sport England. She says: “Pre...

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Award success for 1FitLife’s work to support people living with Parkinson’s

Health and wellness content creator, 1FitLife, was Highly Commended at the Parkinson’s UK Excellence Network Awards for the creation of specialist activity videos developed to encourage people living with Parkinson’s to become and stay as active as possible.   The videos form the basis of a 10-week online ‘Get Started’ programme for people living with Parkinson’s, delivered in collaboration with Reach Your Peak, Neurological physiotherapists providing an online community for people using exercise to treat Parkinson’s.  1FitLife’s...

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Horizon Leisure’s Havant Leisure Centre wins Local Authority/Leisure Trust Gym of the Year

Horizon Leisure’s Havant Leisure Centre was crowned Local Authority/Leisure Trust Gym of the Year at the UK’s National Fitness Awards on Friday 24 November at The Athena in Leicester.   The annual event, which is the UK’s largest free-to-enter fitness awards, recognises excellence and achievement in the active leisure sector across the country.  Horizon Leisure’s Waterlooville Leisure Centre was also shortlisted at the awards in the prestigious Regional Gym of the Year (South) category.   Havant Leisure Centre scooped...

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Barnsley Premier Leisure reports exercise referral successes

For Barnsley Premier Leisure working with data has transformed the way the Trust’s exercise referrals are managed and the popularity of its schemes   Barnsley Premier Leisure (BPL) runs two successful health referral schemes within its Barnsley contract and is soon to launch a third. Its focus is improving community health at the local level.   The exercise referral programme, BPL Health Referral, is aimed at improving the health of people with medical conditions such as asthma, diabetes, high...

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Everyone Active teams up with ReferAll to manage its Health and Wellbeing projects

Everyone Active, a leading operator in the leisure industry, has partnered with ReferAll to manage all its health and wellbeing referral schemes. Everyone Active, which operates more than 200 leisure facilities across the UK, is now using ReferAll’s data management platform to collate real-time information for its community health and wellbeing programmes.   Everyone Active currently supports more than 13,000 people affected by health conditions, disabilities, inequalities and multiple deprivation to get active and stay active every...

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