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The prescription of physical As reported by Leisure activity by medical professionals Opportunities in March, the and increased funding to report also prioritised funding support the inclusion of sporting initiatives that help refugees are two of several to integrate refugees during recommendations made in a a period of mass-migration, new grassroots sport report as part of a number of social published by the European inclusion recommendations. Commission this month. To facilitate integration, Grassroots Sport – Shaping member states are being asked Europe was delivered by the to organise physical activity Commission’s high level group – opportunities specifically for which contained EuropeActive migrant people and to design president Sir Graham Watson – multi-cultural sport events. to commissioner for Education, In terms of using grassroots Culture, Youth and Sport, Tibor sport to contribute to Navracsics, to provide ideas on Europe’s economy, the developing grassroots sport The high-level group presented their findings to commissioner Tibor Navracsics report recommended that within wider life and “strengthen the European Commission the network of sports clubs”. states of the European Union (EU) should “considers the positive economic impact and Key recommendations included using encourage medical professionals to prescribe multiplier effect” to grassroots sport when grassroots sport to positively impact other physical activity “in place of, or in addition allocating funds. In addition, member nations areas of European society, such as health, to” medication, while the EU should provide should consider incentivising participation social inclusion and the economy. Of the funding for sport and physical activity through through “tax reductions and subsidies”. former, the report suggested that member its EU Health Funding Programme. Details: http://lei.sr?a=V8S8M_O

London mayor suspends £9.4m Newark work on Garden Bridge The new mayor of London, Centre opens Sadiq Khan, has suspended work on Thomas Heatherwick’s A new £9.4m leisure facility has been unveiled controversial Garden Bridge in Newark, replacing the ageing Grove Leisure project over concerns that more Centre which was built in 1968. Newark public money will be required to and Sherwood District Council funded the complete the £175m project. project, which saw contractor R. G. Carter Khan – who took office in May working to Watson Batty-designed plans to – officially supports the plans to create Newark Sports and Fitness Centre. Archtects Watson Batty designed the new centre build the 367m long plant-filled The 4,260sq m (45,854sq ft) building bridge, but only if no more than the includes a four-court sports hall, a 25m trust Active4Today, which the executive agreed £60m in public funding is swimming pool and a 20m teaching pool, as approved creation of in January 2015. Southwell made available to build it – and has well as squash courts and an 850sq m (9,149sq Leisure Centre, the Dukeries in Ollerton and now has stepped in to halt works. ft) fitness suite supplied by Life Fitness. the Blidworth Community Leisure Centre are Continued on back cover The new site is being operated by Newark also being run by the not-for-profit company. and Sherwood District Council’s new leisure Details: http://lei.sr?a=G6Q6b_O

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The Leisure Media Company Portmill House, Portmill Lane, Call for more cycling paths Hitchin, Herts SG5 1DJ, UK Tel: +44 (0)1462 431385 British Cycling has called on Fax: +44 (0)1462 433909 the government to explore e-mail: please use contacts' the possibility of opening up [email protected] more public paths for use by Subscriptions cyclists to boost participation [email protected] and help deliver on sport strategy outcomes. Editor Writing a letter to Liz Terry 01462 431385 environment secretary Liz Head of News Truss and Welsh environment Matthew Campelli 01462 471912 secretary Lesley Griffiths, the Journalists national governing body (NGB) said those cycling responsibly Tom Anstey 01462 471916 should have the same public Jane Kitchen 01462 471929 access to the outdoor places Kim Megson 01462 471915 enjoyed by walkers. Giving cyclists access to more paths would also boost tourism Products Editor According to statistics Kate Corney 01462 471927 referenced in the letter, people using bikes only The NGB said such legislation would provide Design have access to less than a third of the 140,000 a platform to achieve the desired outcomes of miles of public paths in England and Wales and the Sporting Future strategy, such as improv- Ed Gallagher 01905 20198 little access to Open Land Access and Coastal ing physical and mental wellbeing, social and Internet Access sites. British Cycling highlighted the community development. Michael Paramore 01462 471926 Scottish Land Reform Act – which gives cyclists “There is a clear recognition that differ- Dean Fox 01462 471900 freedom to more paths north of the border – as ent government departments need to work Tim Nash 01462 471917 “sustainable, manageable and highly beneficial together to create the right conditions for Emma Harris 01462 471921 to tourism, health and the economy”. more people to get active,” said British Cycling. “We believe that a version of this responsible The body went on to highlight that one in six Publisher access model should be explored in England,” deaths are caused by lack of physical activity. Julie Badrick 01462 471919 the letter to the ministers continued. Details: http://lei.sr?a=A5h4d_O Associate Publisher Paul Thorman 01462 471904 Associate Publisher/ Property Desk Simon Hinksman 01462 471905 Elite talent ID scheme launched Account Manager UK Sport has launched what Chris Barnard 01462 471907 it has described as “the biggest Jed Taylor 01462 471914 multi-sport talent identification Financial Administrator campaign in British history” Denise Adams 01462 471930 in an attempt to fast-track Circulation Manager aspiring athletes towards glory Michael Emmerson 01462 471932 at Tokyo 2020 and beyond. In partnership with the English Institute of Sport Subscribe to Leisure Opportunities, (EIS), the elite sports quango Online: www.leisuresubs.com Email: [email protected] revealed #DiscoverYour Tel: +44 (0)1462 471930 Gold, which is targeting Annual subscription rates are: UK £34, 15-24 year-old males and Europe £45, Rest of world £68, students UK £18. females with the talent Leisure Opportunities is published 26 times and determination to a year by The Leisure Media Co Ltd, Portmill succeed in more than 20 House, Portmill Lane, Hitchin, Herts SG5 1DJ, UK. The views expressed in this publication high-performance sports. London 2012 medallist Helen Glover came through a talent ID scheme are those of the author and do not necessarily Identifying young athletes represent those of the publisher The Leisure who have the potential to win medals at women’s boxing under its #DiscoverYour Media Co Ltd. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored future Olympic Games is the ultimate goal. Fight strand, while the search for free- in a retrieval system or transmitted in any The campaign has five strands, the first of style snowboarders and skiers will form form or by means, electronic, mechanical, which – #DiscoverYour Power – was launched #DiscoverYour Freestyle. photocopying, recorded or otherwise, without the prior permission of the copyright holder, in March to identify potential Olympians in Those with the potential to be elite rowers Cybertrek Ltd. Printed by Warners Midlands the fields of cycling, skeleton and canoeing. and Paralympians will be able to prove their PLC. Distributed by Royal Mail Group Ltd As reported by Leisure Opportunities in worth under the #DiscoverYour Giant and and Whistl Ltd in the UK and Total Mail Ltd globally. ©Cybertrek Ltd 2016 ISSN March, UK Sport will also seek out talent #DiscoverYour Para Potential strands respectively. 0952/8210 (Print). ISSN 2397-2394 (Online). in martial arts such as judo, taekwondo and Details: http://lei.sr?a=z3s8M

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Everton gets £4m council Women in Sport study launched loan for training ground Equality body Women in Sport Everton Football Club has received a has received backing from banking £4m (US$5.3m, €4.8m) cash injection specialist Investec to compile and from Liverpool City Council to make publish a report examining the improvements to its training ground, includ- role sport plays in progressing the ing the development of a new show pitch. careers of female professionals. Liverpool City Council purchased the The Sport for Success investiga- Finch Farm training complex in 2013 and tion will look at the the skills and subsequently let the facility back to the qualities women can develop playing Premier League football club on a 40-year sport which can lead to personal lease, making a profit from the rental progression in the field of work. It income. Now the local authority has will also try to discover what impact earmarked the funds after Everton secured the increased effectiveness of female planning permission from Knowsley staff has on the workplace. Council. As well as a show pitch with While the work is yet to be spectator seating the improvements will published, Women in Sport chief 77 per cent of women in management positions play sport also include a new education hub, a new executive Ruth Holdaway said the groundsman building and classroom space. research found that “a significant majority sport that men do and with almost 1.7m Details: http://lei.sr?a=K9B4v_O – 77 per cent – of women who are in fewer women than men playing sport every management roles play sport”, while women week, this research is yet another reason to who play sport are “more likely to be in those be clear that until we close this gender gap we management roles in the first place”. are doing a disservice to women, to society “This makes clear the importance of having and to the success of our economy.” a greater number of opportunities for girls to The research follows on from Women be active and play sport from a young age in Sport’s From Barriers to Benefits report – schools, colleges and community groups – commissioned in 2015 – which laid should take note,” added Holdaway. out the significant health and economic “We want to see every woman and girl benefits of women participating in sport. across the UK gain the same benefits from Details: http://lei.sr?a=m4w5J_O

Badminton faces cuts in funding The development will include 605 new homes

Badminton England has QPR plans housing project lost 10 per cent of its Sport close to new stadium site England funding after failing to achieve required Championship football club Queens participation figures for the Park Rangers (QPR) has won planning 26+ demographic. permission to build a £175m (US$231.4m, The national governing €209.2m) mixed-use development on the body (NGB) was informed site it has identified for a new stadium. of the decision in June and The football club and Genesis will now have £234,000 Housing Association have received (US$303,349, €274,334) the green-light from the Old Oak and of its 2016 funding award Park Royal Development Corporation decommitted by the grassroots (OPDC) to establish 605 new homes – sport quango. After making 40 per cent of which are being described the commitment to engage Badminton England fell short of its target in engaging participants as affordable – and commercial space. with a certain number of 26+ While the Oaklands development year-olds over 2015/16, the organisation fell to meet the agreed participation figures for does not include a new stadium, the short resulting in Sport England’s decision. the key 14-25 year-old age category. move is a step towards winning planning The latest Active People Survey results revealed Leisure Opportunities understands that the permission for the ground which has that Badminton England lost 28,300 overall RYA will present KPIs around awareness, proved elusive for QPR thus far. It had participants between March 2015 and March connection, trial, outcomes and regularity earmarked land in the area – owned by 2016, with 421,600 active players registered. of participation to Sport England before the Cargiant – to build a stadium to replace Also under threat of losing funding is the funding body makes its decision next month. its current Loftus Road home, although Royal Yachting Association (RYA) which has Key to the RYA’s pitch will be its ‘Push the its acquisition has so far been prob- been told it will lose 20 per cent – £193,000 Boat Out’ initiative – which gives people the lematic. The housing development will (US$250,198, €226,319) – of its 2016 award if it opportunity to try sailing out for the first time. not be built on the same piece of land. does not meet special conditions after it failed Details: http://lei.sr?a=k4d9d_O Details: http://lei.sr?a=V8q7X_O

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Th e ukactive Kids board has produced a new long-term strategy to tackle youth inactivity – a growing issue described as “a ticking time-bomb for the NHS”. ukactive’s groundbreaking Generation Inactive report last year revealed that only half of seven-year- olds are meeting recommended physical activity guidelines of 60 minutes per day. Th e ukactive Kids board has now finalised its new strategy to get the nation’s children moving by engaging teachers, parents and policymakers to help deliver this mission. Engage to Compete scheme – aimed at primary school kids Th e plan aims to support eff orts to Hit the Ground improve standards and regulation around primary and secondary education, approved quality assurance for children’s activity the plan presented by ukactive research Running with an professionals, while developing and expanding director Dr Steven Mann, who is the executive relationships with Whitehall and government lead on the programme at ukactive. Former departments into specifi c projects. Driving for ukactive Kids’ chair Dean Horridge was Active IQ policy change will play an integral role. reinstated in this role, while David Lloyd Data capture and the use of research will also Leisure’s Group Family Manager Sinead Qualification play a big part in the updated strategy – with the Johnson has taken the position of vice chair. Board agreeing a blueprint which aligns research As part of the new plan, ukactive Kids programmes and work with government to will be broadening membership benefits ensure that schools are recording and analysing and also working with individual schools Discover the opportunities data on activity trends in children. and parents groups to ensure that physical available to your learners when The board, which now includes activity is working across all areas of society. you become an Active IQ representation from headteachers in both Details: http://lei.sr?a=B9N2x_O approved centre. We will ensure you are fully prepared to offer students everything they need to start their careers in the active Cuts ‘hamper’ war on obesity leisure sector. Local councils in England have warned that government cuts to public health funding could thwart efforts to tackle obesity. Introducing our PROFESSIONAL Newly published figures from RECOGNITION the Local Government Association SERVICE (LGA) show that councils expect Gain our quality kite to spend £127m on tackling obesity mark on your CPD during the fi nancial year 2016-17 – courses. down from £140m spent in 2015-16. Th e spending is used on providing leisure facilities, weight management services, exercise referral schemes and extending the offer for free Connect with us or reduced-cost sport, such as swimming. Th e numbers also include Free swimming – among the investments in physical activities the cost of running the government’s #activequalifications National Child Measurement Programme, amount of money councils are having to which councils are responsible for. plough into obesity prevention work shows Public health became the responsibility the sheer scale of the crisis we face. Visit of local authorities in April 2013, when they “We would like assurances from the www.activeiq.co.uk/join took over the role from the NHS. government’s new administration that the Since the transfer of responsibilities, the long-awaited childhood obesity strategy to become approved and get your LGA estimates that councils have spent £505m is still on track and that it includes tough first 5 registrations free - quote on tackling obesity in adults and children. measures that will help to reverse the rise ‘5REG15’ Izzi Seccombe, LGA’s community wellbeing in costs and children becoming obese.” portfolio holder, said: “The staggering Details: http://lei.sr?a=x9D9w_O

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HEALTH & FITNESS David Lloyd lands exclusive ‘Get more gyms on the high street' deal with Spartan Race David Lloyd Leisure (DLL) has announced The boss of the UK’s only a new exclusive partnership with Reebok listed gym chain has called Spartan Race UK as the operator moves to on planning authorities to gain a foothold in the burgeoning outdoor reconsider the role that race market. DLL is offering Spartans the gyms have to play in creat- chance to shape up ahead of their gruel- ing healthier and resurgent ling obstacle race with a free 14-day trial high streets. at their local club. The Gym Group CEO Spartan-inspired group exercises have John Treharne told Leisure been devised to prepare and encourage Opportunities that fit- them to take on one of the world’s tough- ness operators can bring est obstacle course races. huge benefits in terms of Reebok Spartan Race UK has employment, footfall and three options: a 5km ‘sprint’, a 13km health, at a time when ‘super’ and a 20km ‘beast’ course. many of the the country’s Details: http://lei.sr?a=b2f7X_O high street businesses are struggling to survive. Treharne says health clubs have a role to play in reinvigorating high streets “It’s a slow process, but planning authorities should be considering Treharne’s comments reflect the sentiments the benefit to local people from more gyms on of many health club operators, who have found the high street,” said Treharne, who added that that obtaining suitable properties – partly due each Gym Group site brings around 20 jobs to cumbersome planning laws. when you include personal trainers. Under England’s planning use classes frame- “The bulk of our members come from work – which hasn’t been updated since 1987 within five minutes of our sites and par- – gyms and leisure centres can only occupy ticularly where some high streets need buildings designated under the ‘Class D2’ cat- regeneration, the fact that we drive high foot- egory, whereas shops retail outlets sit in the far fall to our sites brings added benefits to other more abundant ‘Class A1’ category of building. businesses in the same location.” Details: http://lei.sr?a=M8c7t_O

L FX founder Hinde is scaling up the network Facebook launch for May urged to ‘run with activity baton’ National Fitness Network As Prime Minister Theresa May A new fitness membership network put together her first cabinet, for sector professionals to share ideas ukactive has called on the new and benefit from trade discounts has administration to continue the launched via Facebook today. work of its predecessor in taking The National Fitness Network is the strides to tackle the UK’s physical brainchild of former club operator and LFX inactivity epidemic. network founder Graeme Hinde, who has David Cameron’s six-year brought in fitness entrepreneur and The premiership saw a number of Apprentice star Katie Bulmer-Cooke, plus positive steps forward for the Burnley Leisure head of operations Neil physical activity agenda and Hutchinson to join him as directors for the coincided with a period of new network. The trio aim to create a com- sustained growth for the sector. munity of like-minded fitness professionals Some of the government’s standout ukactive called on Theresa May to make physical activity a priority and enthusiasts who want to share ideas, as achievements in that time include well as receive useful information and deals the 2013 launch of Public Health England, however ukactive executive director Steven on trade supplies and training. the publication of last year’s groundbreaking Ward is hopeful May’s government will pick “For many years I have listened to Sporting Future strategy and the announce- up the physical activity baton and run with it. industry colleagues talking about how we ment in March of a £520m ‘sugar tax’ on fizzy Ward welcomed the stability the should pay our people more for the fantastic drinks to fund physical activity in schools. appointment of a new leader so soon after work they do on the front line, but things ukactive and the wider physical activity the referendum brings for business and don’t seem to have improved,” said Hinde. sector is eager for the new-look government said it will be vital for the new government “I decided that it was time to to maintain this momentum and drive for- to ensure that access to the single market is give something back and so we are ward with further policies that will help to maintained. He also highlighted the poten- creating a fantastic range of exclusive create an active Britain. One area of concern tial for new trade deals to create additional member offers and discounts.” among industry sources is the fate of the opportunities for physical activity firms. Details: http://lei.sr?a=d7j8c_O much-delayed childhood obesity strategy, Details: http://lei.sr?a=J5N9V_O

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Wembley launches ‘world’s most advanced’ stadium tour BME prepares for 2017 opening Wembley Stadium has launched what it The British Music calls “the world’s most technologically Experience’s (BME) new advanced stadium tour”, using beacon home has set an opening technology and augmented reality to date of 11 February 2017 provide interactive experiences for visitors. amid plans to position itself Interaction design agency Nock has worked as one of the UK’s most in collaboration with the Football Association prominent and compelling (FA) and mobile network operator EE on the music attractions. tour, which launched on 18 July. Liverpool – musically Connected by an EE Harrier smartphone renowned for giving the converted into an EE SmartGuide, world The Beatles – will host users can explore the famous stadium the BME, which moves from while utilising 360 video and AR to its home at the O2 arena in relive key sporting and music moments London following a five-year that have taken place at Wembley. run. Making its new home The BME will move to Liverpool from the O2 Arena in London Details: http://lei.sr?a=U4H7P in the iconic Grade II-listed Cunard Building, the experience will offer an a further £2.6m (US$3.4m, €3m) into the extensive collection of music and more than project, with a £2.6m grant also coming 600 artefacts paying homage to the impact from the Regional Growth Fund. British music has had on culture, fashion, art “Music is inherent and entwined with and politics. TBL International – operator of Liverpool’s history, present and future,” said the award-winning Titanic Belfast attraction Tim Husbands, BME chief executive. “By – will take charge of the experience, which capitalising on the Unesco City of Music covers 16,000sq ft (1,500sq m) and includes and Liverpool’s existing tourism platforms, eight interactive spaces exploring a variety together, with the project’s stakeholders, we of music genres dating back to 1945. will deliver a unique and successful attraction.” The BME Trust brings both a physical When open, the site will create 35 jobs and and digital collection valued at more than is forecast to attract 200,000 visitors a year. £5m. Additionally, the trust has invested Details: http://lei.sr?a=p8E7j_O

Visitors will embark on a journey full of illusions Beatrix Potter attraction debuts Madame Tussauds seeks out Sherlock Holmes experience A new tourist attraction has opened at the location where An innovative live walk-through adventure famous Victorian children’s author called Sherlock Holmes: The Experience Beatrix Potter penned some of her debuted on 15 July at Madame Tussauds most famous works. London, just a stone’s throw from the Baker Opened to the public on 2 Street home of the fictional detective. July to celebrate the 150-year Visitors to the permanent interactive anniversary of the birth of experience will enter the mysterious world Potter, the attraction on the of Sherlock Holmes, theatrically staged in Lingholm Estate near Keswick in the basement of the Marylebone-based Cumberland now features a café, attraction. Embarking on a journey full shop and Victorian walled garden. of illusions and sound effects featuring The attraction complements the actors and multi-textured theatrical sets, unveiling of a new jetty offer- visitors will be immersed in the most ing scheduled boat services for famous places featured in the popular the first time in half-a-century. The attraction is located on the Lingholm Estate near Keswick detective stories, such as the drawing The work has cost around £1m. room, lamp lit Victorian streets and dark Lingholm, where Potter spent ten The new café can seat up to 180 people and moors – all magically recreated. summers between 1885 and 1907, is the place includes a dedicated art wall featuring the Madame Tussauds global brand director, where she wrote such children’s classics as works of Rob Miller. The jetty will become Jules Heaton, explains: “The creation of Squirrel Nutkin and Mrs TiggyWinkle. a regular stop for The Keswick Launch immersive theatrical experiences – which In addition, the Lingholm Kitchen Garden Company, which offers boating tours. are not wax figure based – is a very has been credited as the original inspiration “This is a whole a new visitor experience for exciting development for Madame for Mr McGregor’s garden in The Tale of the Lake District, in a previously little-known Tussauds and a model which we intend Peter Rabbit. The new Victorian garden corner of this world-renowned landscape,” said to roll out to our attractions worldwide.” built from reclaimed materials, now sits on Jenny Seymour, Lingholm Estate director. Details: http://lei.sr?a=n3N4Q_O the land where those gardens were located. Details: http://lei.sr?a=w6R9S_O

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12 HOTELS W Hotels to operate ‘ribbon’ hotel Starwood Hotels & Resorts has announced it will debut its W Hotels brand in Scotland at the 12-storey ‘ribbon’ building designed by Jestico + Whiles in Strategic Data at your the heart of Edinburgh. The striking building – which Fingertips has proven controversial due to its eye-catching steel façade and mooted location in the centre Xn Insight of the historic city – is set to complete in 2020. It will be the centrepiece of the Edinburgh St James scheme – a 1.7million sq ft development, designed by Jestico + Whiles and Allan Murray The hotel will be the centrepiece of the Edinburgh St James scheme Architects, incorporating retail, entertainment, leisure and residential confident that there will be a huge appetite apartments. The hotel will have 214 guestrooms, for our innovative lifestyle brand in the including 20 suites. The rooftop will feature a Scottish capital,” said Michael Wale, president destination bar and outdoor terrace looking over of Starwood’s European operations. the famous skyline. Other areas will include a “W Edinburgh’s location at the pulsing heart signature restaurant, a workout facility and an of the new Edinburgh St James development, AWAY-branded spa offering W’s signature health combined with its innovative design, contem- and wellness experiences. porary interiors and the W brand’s signature “As an established business hub with a programming, will create a perfect setting.” thriving global tourism industry, we are Details: http://lei.sr?a=b7d2M_O See your data Berkeley’s glass canopy ‘a first’ ÚĜýåųåĹƋĬƼĜĹƖLjŎƅ

Landmark London hotel The Berkeley has unveiled its new entrance, created by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners (RSH+P) to “create the ultimate sense of arrival”. The building, designed for the hotel by architect Brian O’Rorke in 1972, has had an extensive redesign, particularly to its façade. RSH+P added a huge glass canopy supported by sixteen sculpted carbon fibre beams, each 9m long, using materials and technology more often seen in the The hotel’s glass canopy is supported by sixteen carbon fibre beams ‰ŅĀĹÚŅƚƋĘŅƵ±ĹÚüŅų construction of Formula 1 ĵŅųåĜĹüŅųĵ±ƋĜŅĹÏŅĹƋ±ÏƋƚŸ cars and elite racing bikes. incredible architectural skill and sensitivity, The creation of the canopy – a feat the bringing light and drama to The Berkeley.” studio said “has never been seen before in Two ceiling glass pavilions flank the T +44 (0)870 80 30 700 hotel architecture” – was undertaken by entrance doors and the extended outer Spanish engineer firm Bellapart. walls of the hotel’s Blue Bar and Collins E [email protected] “The carbon fibre beams bring a lightness Room – which have both been redesigned and elegance to the glass structure, creating by Robert Angel. A subtle honeycomb an open, transparent and welcoming point of detailing reflects light throughout the day arrival,” said studio founder Richard Rogers. and night allowing for a constant sense xnleisure.com “It is a tribute to my late colleague Amo Kalsi of illumination, shadow and movement. [who worked on the project] as it shows off his Details: http://lei.sr?a=n9e2M_O

© CYBERTREK 2016 Twitter: @leisureopps Read Leisure Opportunities online: www.leisureopportunities.co.uk/digital 13 SPA & WELLNESS SPA & WELLNESS ‘Shark Tank of Wellness’ announced Seasons to The Global Wellness be cheerful Summit has announced that its first-ever “Shark Tank of Wellness” competition has already attracted more than 70 entries from 17 countries; JO GOODMAN submissions continue until Sales & marketing August 1, 2016. In addition, director at Habia – the the Summit revealed spa, hair and beauty its panel of judges, the arm of SkillsActive “Wellness Sharks.” “The enthusiasm for he summer is one of the busiest ‘Shark Tank of Wellness’ times of the year for our has been incredible and industry, so push the boat out illustrates that ‘wellness Tand make sure it counts. Even innovation’ is truly a global Susie Ellis is the chair and CEO of the Global Wellness Summit the most well-established salons and spas phenomenon,” said Susie can run into trouble if they fail to grasp Ellis, GWS chair and CEO. “This radical re-think Wellness Sharks represent leading wellness the basics of stock control. of our traditional Student Challenge has been companies/industries and come from all A host of summer social occasions can embraced not only by student participants, but over the world of spa and wellness. bring an influx of new clients, but don’t also by the sponsors who will also be the judges, The Wellness Sharks for the inaugural think of this as a one-off seasonal uplift. or rather, our ‘Wellness Sharks’.” competition include Simon Casson, Your goal should be to convert every new The six Wellness Sharks will engage regional vice president & general manager, customer into a regular repeat client. students in a lively discussion/debate Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts; Tracey So it’s time to be proactive, starting with during the 10th Anniversary Global Chappell, senior vice president, Global Spa the basics. Ensure that you have the correct Wellness Summit to determine the viability Solutions, ESPA and Jane Iredale, president stock levels for treatments and retail of their new wellness concepts, which can and founder, Iredale Mineral Cosmetics. sales, check your booking procedures to span any aspect of the wellness spectrum. Details: http://lei.sr?a=X6h3k_O guard against overbooking and consider implementing staff incentives to keep everyone at the top of their game. That goes for you, too. Don’t be lulled Accor acquires FRHI Hotels & Resorts into a false sense of summer security that results in a dip in standards. Maintain a AccorHotels Group has officially professional approach at all times and acquired FRHI Hotels & Resorts resist any temptation to cut corners (FRHI) and its three luxury hotel however busy you might be. brands: Fairmont, Raffles and But don’t stop there. Get creative Swissôtel. The deal was finalised with seasonal offers by putting together following shareholder approval. pick-and-mix packages to meet the needs “Today is a great day for our Group,” of your clients while also introducing said Sébastien Bazin, chair and CEO them to new treatments that they might of AccorHotels. “The acquisition of not have considered previously. these three emblematic luxury hotel It amazes me how many salons do brands is a historical milestone for not recognise the benefits of offering AccorHotels. It will open up amazing customer consultations. It is well growth prospects, lift our international documented that businesses that offer presence to unprecedented heights, Fairmont Grand Del Mar in San Diego – now owned by Accor consultation services achieve much and build value over the long term. higher retention rates because they are “By leveraging the operational synergies and global operations of AccorHotels Luxury meeting customers’ needs and expecta- between FRHI and AccorHotels, we are well- Brands. This new structure will include Raffles, tions while keeping them aware of the positioned to accelerate the growth of our Fairmont, Sofitel Legend, So Sofitel, Sofitel, latest products and trends. luxury brands and offer guests even more MGallery by Sofitel, Pullman and Swissôtel. Having done all you can to offer the exciting hotel choices and destinations to Cahill is an experienced hotelier who has best experience possible to customers, explore,” added Bazin. led several successful integrations, is familiar all that’s left is to go the extra mile by As part of AccorHotels’ larger strategy to with multi-brand management and brings an offering them loyalty incentives to keep strengthen its luxury business, the company extensive background in luxury operations, them coming back. This attention to has also appointed Chris Cahill as the group’s sales and marketing, the company said. detail will help your salon to stand out CEO of luxury brands. In this newly created He boasts more than 30 years of hospitality from the competition and ensure that a role, Cahill will lead the FRHI integration industry experience to the role. hot summer leads to year-round growth. process and be responsible for the strategy Details: http://lei.sr?a=x2H8P_O

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VisitBritain has said it is anticipating a “strong summer” based on the latest numbers released by the Office of National Statistics (ONS), which has announced record-breaking numbers for inbound tourists. Revealing its Q1 statistics for January to March, the ONS report said that visits from the US, UAE, Australia, Spain and Germany all grew. The US was the most significant of these, with the UK’s most valuable foreign market growing 9 per cent to 542,000. Within the EU, visitor Visitor numbers are set to be strong after a record first quarter numbers were up overall by 10 per cent, with Germany marking a 24 per cent affordable destination for potential overseas rise to 602,000 inbound visitors and Spain visitors. Combined with the solid Q1 figures, GYM growing by 12 per cent to 548,000. Australia VisitBritain believes the UK tourism sector and the UAE also marked a 10 per cent could expect a “great summer”. FLOORING increase, with 157,000 visiting the UK’s shores 2015 set a record for inbound tourism to from Australia and 77,000 from the UAE. the UK on visits and spend with 36.1 million SPECIALISTS One positive identified as a result of the visits – a 5 per cent increase on 2011 – with UK’s decision to leave the EU was that that spending also up 1 per cent to £22.1bn. weakened pound makes the country a more Details: http://lei.sr?a=h1q6K We off er: QFree Weights Flooring BA launches in-flight meditation Q Sprint Tracks Q Playground British Airways customers can Accessories now meditate their way to a more relaxing flight, thanks to a new Q Acoustic Solutions in-flight entertainment channel in Q Installation partnership with meditation app Headspace that’s being offered on the airline’s long-haul routes. The Headspace video channel features content designed to help travellers unwind in the air by practicing meditation and mindfulness exercises. Guided by Headspace co-founder Andy Puddicombe, each exercise focuses on a different topic, such as enabling stressed parents and anxious travellers to feel happier and more relaxed, or to overcome jet lag; there The channel will help travellers unwind in the air by meditation are even several guides designed For more information specifically for children to create moments of Puddicombe said the specially-curated call us now on: stillness and calm, or to encourage happiness content has been designed to enhance every +44 (0) 1706 260 220 and wellbeing. stage of the journey – before, during and after the “We know our customers really value making flight – with specific exercises to help passengers Or email us at: the most of their time on our aircraft, and feel relaxed, refreshed and recharged. sales@fl oors4gyms.com the new Headspace channel on our in-flight “It is also an opportunity to learn a entertainment system offers them a fantastic beneficial new skill – something you way to make their flight more fulfilling and can use at your destination and beyond www.fl oors4gyms.com relaxed,” said Troy Warfield, British Airways’ – for a healthier and happier life.” director of customer experience. Details: http://lei.sr?a=J4n4A_O

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Two leisure projects have made the shortlist for the prestigious 2016 Stirling Prize for the UK’s best new building. Newport Street Gallery in Vauxhall by Caruso St The project is due to be completed by 2017 John and Weston Library in Oxford by WilkinsonEyre Contractors hired for multi- are among six projects level indoor skatepark in the running for the UK’s highest accolade for The main contractor has been appointed architecture. The winner will for the construction of Urban Sports be announced by the Royal Park (USP) – a multi-level indoor Institute of British Architects skating complex in Folkestone, UK (RIBA) on 6 October 2016. designed by Guy Holloway Architects. The other buildings in the Caruso St John’s Newport Street Gallery in Vauxhall is nominated The developer of the project, Shepway running are a partly-subterra- Sports Trust, has commissioned Westridge nean home in the Forest of Dean, called the bookended by Caruso St John’s two new Construction to carry out the main work Outhouse; the Blavatnik School of Government buildings creating a seamless new sequence. on the building, which received approval in Oxford by Herzog & de Meuron; the The £50m Weston Library project is a from the district council in February. Trafalgar Place housing development in south restoration and reinvigoration of a Grade II listed Preparations will take place soon for London; and a new college campus for the City building home to one of the world’s greatest construction to begin, with a target date of Glasgow College. research libraries. The main lobby has been re- of late summer 2017 for completion. The The Newport Street Gallery is a free public opened to the public with a first floor glazed site for the park is being provided by museum housing artist Damien Hirst’s private mezzanine that forms a direct visual relationship the Roger De Haan Charitable Trust, collection and his restaurant Pharmacy 2. with the books, while windows and floors have which is also funding the £10m cost of Three Victorian workshops once used to been refurbished to herald the original features. development and construction. create sets for West End productions were Details: http://lei.sr?a=X2o7G The USP – designed in collaboration with skate park specialists Maverick Industries – will incorporate facilities for skateboarding and scootering over Paddington Cube proposal unveiled seven configurable floors. Details: http://lei.sr?a=y3v4i Developers hoping to build a mixed-use complex near London’s Paddington Station Old Oak developers reveal have revealed Renzo Piano’s leisure-focused masterplan latest vision for the project. A previous tower proposal A fourth public consultation is underway nicknamed ‘the Paddington to determine the masterplan design of west Pole’ drew a barrage of London’s Old Oak and Park Royal Common; criticism from some quarters the UK’s largest regeneration project. about its height, and the plan Used car dealer Cargiant plans to build was abandoned in January. a canal-side new town on its 46 acres of However, Piano was retained land in Old Oak Park, which will unlock by the Sellers Property Group opportunities created by the area’s future (SPG) and Great Western transport links with Crossrail, HS2 and Developments to compre- the Great Western Rail Line. hensively rethink the design. The Paddington Cube is Piano’s revised design for the site Cargiant and development partner The result is the London & Regional Properties have teamed Paddington Cube – a 360,000sq ft (33,400sq the ground,” said Piano. “We are obsessed up with PLP Architecture, engineers Arup m) 14-storey mixed-use complex lifted 12m with lightness and have given the build- and Dutch landscape architects West 8 to above new public realm stretching over an ing a sense of flying above the ground and create the proposal, which would cost a acre. Around 80,000sq ft (7,400sq m) of retail defying the laws of gravity. The façade will reported £5bn to create. and restaurant accommodation will feature be crystalline, like a fine lace of steel and Around 6,500 new homes for Londoners over five levels, including a rooftop eatery. glass in a clear pattern like the beautiful are planned – of all types and price ranges The building would be constructed on the arches and skylights of Brunel’s station.” – revised down from an initial 9,000 home site of a former a Royal Mail sorting office. The new proposals follow extensive consul- target in order to free up more space. “When you exit the train station you will tations with local residents and stakeholders. Details: http://lei.sr?a=s5y4h see a clear floating cube ‘levitating’ above Details: http://lei.sr?a=i1v6T

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Government plans for a major than answers shake-up of Post-16 vocational education have been met with disappointment from the leisure industry, after the newly-proposed routes into skilled employment appear to have overlooked the sector. Skills minister Nick Boles has TARA DILLON tabled plans to remove thousands is chief executive of “ineffective courses that short- of CIMSPA change employers and young people” and replace them with 15 “straight- forward routes” into technical f there’s one thing that Lord employment covering key industries. The word ‘leisure’ did not feature once in the 60-page Post-16 Sainsbury’s Report of the Independent The recommended reforms are based skills plan published by skills minister Nick Boles Panel on Technical Education has on a report into technical education I achieved it is getting people talking by an independent panel, chaired by Labour across different pathways: “As the routes have about further education. However, it Party peer Lord Sainsbury. been developed to group skilled occupations prompts many questions. Among the new routes are Construction; with shared knowledge, skills and behaviour, The report recommends that young Transport and Logistics; as well as Legal, leisure sector careers will be spread across people choose between taking an Finance and Accounting; however there is no different routes,” said the spokesperson. academic or technical pathway through clear route for entering the leisure industry. “For example, jobs such as health and fitness further education. It proposes a radical In fact, the word ‘leisure’ did not feature once trainers would be included within the Health overview of the technical education in Boles’ 60-page Post-16 skills plan, despite and Science Route. A job such as park ranger system, replacing the thousands of courses the £117bn leisure sector accounting for 7.4 per would be included within the Agriculture, currently in existence with 15 high-quality cent of GDP, according to Deloitte. Environment and Animal Care Route.” routes covering college-based and When contacted by Leisure Opportunities, Controversially, the Post-16 skills plan apprenticeship-based education. a Department for Education spokesperson includes the proposal to have just one Indications are that a sector has to said that the government had included leisure awarding organisation for each of the 15 routes. choose between an academic or technical industry jobs in the 15 Skills Plan routes, but Details: http://lei.sr?a=5K5n4_O pathway – it can’t have both. Sport and physical activity has not been given its own technical route and instead falls in a number of others. It does however Workforce-themed active-net 2017 have a number of academic qualifications approved by DfE. Unfortunately, there is no Workforce development has been clear information on academic pathways announced as the theme for active-net and how it aligns to the technical routes, 2017, with the two-day conference to and this prompts the first big question for explore efforts and initiatives from the the sector. Do we want to be seen as tech- likes of Sport England and CIMSPA to nical or academic occupation? professionalise the physical activity sector. All these routes – academic, technical The educational element of the either via college or apprenticeships conference will include a panel – require a single set of standards, discussion with Stephanie Maurel, developed by employers, which aligns the strategic lead for people at Sport closely with the work CIMSPA and the England, CIMSPA CEO Tara Dillion sector is currently undertaking. and Marcus Kingwell, MD of AoC Sport. The report also recommends one “Sport England’s Towards an Sport England’s Stephanie Maurel will share the finer detail awarding body for each of the 15 technical Active Nation five-year plan aims to of the organisation’s workforce development strategy streams. Our sector has lots of niche transform delivery through a new awarding bodies, but few that serve the workforce strategy,” said David Monkhouse, informative educational slots, networking whole sector. How do we maintain that director of event organiser Leisure-net. lunches and an evening meal. The fourth expertise in our awarding body network? “Couple that with the first anniversary of annual event will take place on 29-30 March Yes, the review has prompted uncertainty CIMSPA’s Affiliate and Practitioner scheme 2017 at Eastwood Hall in Nottingham. and unanswered questions, but for CIMSPA and active-net’s new link with AoC Sport, Sport England’s Stephanie Maurel added: it’s business as usual. Our work to define and it made perfect sense to theme the entire “Sport England is currently working on professional standards means we are conference around workforce development.” the Professional Workforce strategy for the ahead of the game. We will work to open active-net brings together more than 100 sector, to be published in December, and we a dialogue with government, to ensure we leading operators and suppliers within the look forward to sharing the finer detail of the have answers for all our partners so once active leisure sector for business-focused, pre- strategy with delegates at active-net 2017.” the dust settles we can negotiate the best selected one-to-one meetings, together with Details: http://lei.sr?a=L6b5Z possible outcome for the sector.

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