Our fantastic partners

Without our partners, much of what we do on behalf of the sector would simply not be possible.

Data and research is at its most trustworthy when it is independent, thorough and without agenda. That is what we do at Leisure DB.

We have commercial products, but we also invest time and resources in sharing data and knowledge across the industry. Our goal: to fuel discussion, debate, evolution, growth and continued success of the whole sector.

 It is in large part thanks to our partners that we are able to do this, and for that we are hugely grateful.

 

OUR STRATEGIC PARTNERS

Alliance Leisure is the leading development partner for local authority leisure facilities across the UK. Celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2024, it has completed over 230 projects with an investment value of more than £340m. Its focus: delivering transformational projects that create engaging active environments and support healthy, happy, prosperous communities.

With projects ranging from £40m new-build facilities and large remodelling of leisure spaces to splash pads and outdoor pitches, Alliance Leisure has been instrumental in changing the face of public sector leisure provision over the past two decades. 

 

PSLT Fitness Solutions is a premier provider of customised remanufactured gym equipment and upholstery services across the nation. It works across a wide range of markets and proudly collaborates with industry leaders such as PFP, Everyone Active, Snap Fitness and Active Nation.

Specialising in the manufacture of Core Gym Equipment, it’s the foremost supplier of British-made gym equipment. It also offers a wide range of maintenance contracts, with service engineers that cover the whole UK and most brands of equipment. Finally, with an in-house logistics team, it guarantees seamless delivery and gym relocations, with an unwavering commitment to excellence and customer satisfaction.

 

Les Mills is the global leader in group fitness and creator of over 20 programmes including BODYPUMP™ and BODYCOMBAT™. Its workouts are delivered by 130,000 certified instructors in 21,000 gyms across 100 countries and via the LES MILLS+ streaming platform.

The company was founded by Les Mills – a four-time Olympian who opened his first gym in 1968 with a vision to bring elite sports training to the masses.

Watch the Les Mills story.

 

OUR INDUSTRY PARTNERS

Active IQ is an awarding organisation recognised and regulated by Ofqual within the active leisure sector, designing qualifications that support clear career pathways. It prides itself on excellent customer service and strives to provide high-quality resources for its qualifications, enabling training providers to give a positive learning experience.

Airius is a world leader in destratification fan systems, which save an average of 35% on heating and cooling costs and provide a typical ROI of six to 24 months. Offering an extensive range of products ideally suited to indoor leisure applications, Airius supplies the only range suitable for indoor swimming pools.

Barclays Corporate Banking has the banking excellence you’d expect with the data and insights you don’t. Through its dedicated sector and regional specialists, and the power of the wider Barclays network, it can act on those insights together with its customers. It can provide innovative financing solutions that help businesses achieve a more expansive, better-connected future. See things differently with Big Picture Banking at Barclays.

Blu Leisure has accrued almost 20 years’ specialist experience in providing branded uniforms and promotional merchandise to major multi-site leisure operators. It currently stocks more than 200 retail units in gyms, leisure centres and hotels across the UK, with partners including Bannatyne Fitness, Macdonald Hotels, Everyone Active, Places for People and Freedom Leisure. Its extensive collection of trends-driven, eye-catching fitness apparel, swimwear and accessories is designed to maximise secondary income opportunities for leisure providers. With unbeatable trade prices, backed by exceptional customer service, partners benefit from unrivalled profit margins on their retail sales.

CAWS is a health content and fitness education company. It focuses on up skilling personal trainers or delivering content directly to communities, specifically on health events (such as cancer, long Covid or heart disease) or life stages like menopause and dementia. The team is based in the UK with operations spanning the globe. Known for integrating the evidence base of elite sports science and clinical health practise with everyday exercise activity and nutritional behaviour, CAWS uses a very realistic approach to deliver practical information in a modern and engaging way. Working in partnership with NASM, CAWS also certifies personal trainers and runs a number of university graduate schemes to help drive talent and knowledge into the UK fitness industry.

Core Health & Fitness is more than gym equipment; we offer innovative solutions for all your facility needs. Whether working with us directly or through our partners worldwide, we provide the highest quality equipment backed by a service and support team that will always go the extra mile to get you what you need, when you need it. Partner with us and see how our Core Values motivate our every decision. To learn more about our portfolio of brands and fitness products please visit corehealthandfitness.com

CoverMe is a management tool that helps clubs, studios, and facilities manage their existing team of instructors whilst helping them find new ones. The CoverMe app is a single channel for communication whilst digitally storing all compliance related documents securely. Our inventive algorithm pinpoints the most suitable cover and finds relevant, local, certified, insured and immediately available instructors.

Cover Ninja helps venues seamlessly manage their group exercise class cover, while providing a platform for instructors to pick up work and earn more money. Reduce class cancellations, increase instructor resource, save time and money with Cover Ninja.

EWA Controls (Energy.Water.Air) specialises in delivering vital services to various sectors, including education, manufacturing, health and leisure. Its nationwide network of skilled engineers ensures business continuity and rapid support, while its London-based team excels in building management system projects. With years of experience, it is well-versed in legacy and contemporary BMS products, allowing for seamless upgrades. It is also dedicated to staying current with evolving technology to meet ever-changing demands. From boutique fitness facilities to work on oil pumping stations in Iraq, it has it covered. 

Green Wing Energy Solutions burst onto the scene in August 2009 and since then has helped many home and business owners benefit from an array of proven energy-saving solutions. It now boasts over 25 different energy- and water-saving solutions to help customers significantly reduce energy consumption, carbon and costs. It understands that not every client has the same needs; offering an array of proven solutions allows it to tailor the support it offers.

Hutchi (formerly Hutchison Technologies) has been designing and delivering advanced tech solutions for the fitness industry for over 30 years. Through the intelligent integration of audio-visual, lighting, access control, automation, networking, and digital signage solutions, Hutchi creates impactful design-led experiences.

Hydrohex Fitness Classes are a new and exciting cinematic virtual aqua fitness experience. Combining clear underwater imagery with changing camera angles, inspiring instructors and motivating music, Hydrohex brings the full benefits of virtual fitness to your pool. Hydrohex Fitness Classes offer a variety of experiences through four class types, each with its own focus and style. Instructors always instruct from the pool, making following the class easy and engaging.

Independent Gyms champions independently-owned fitness facilities. Through supplier savings, resources and events, it helps its members run their fitness business better, for the benefit of them and their members. Independent Gyms partners with over 120 industry-leading brands to provide direct savings, and hosts two conferences each year bringing together the gym owner community.

Johnson Reed is the UK’s leading ‘common sense’ fitness finance specialist for equipment, fit-out and flooring finance and cash flow loans. Whether you’re a new start, boutique, multi-site or small PT studio, Johnson Reed has the facility to support and make the process easy. With in-house lending and access to the best UK banks for the cheapest rates and quickest decisions, there’s no need to dream. Expand and develop your facility with JR’s extraordinary ‘common sense’ finance.

Keiser has been at the cutting-edge of the fitness industry for over 40 years. Its pneumatic technology and dynamic variable resistance allow the user to build strength at any speed, offering an unrivalled opportunity to work towards any training goal for unmatched results. Its cardio products are smooth, silent, compact and designed with the user in mind. Built with Bluetooth integrated technology, the simple yet striking design offers unmatched user longevity. Keiser is proud to engineer and manufacture every component of every machine it produces exclusively in the USA. Simply put – Keiser equipment dynamically raises the bar in elevating human performance for everyone.

Konsileo are a multi-award winning, tech-enabled, commercial insurance broker. We are one of the leading insurance brokers for the health and fitness industry in the UK. We strive to provide the optimal insurance solution for all businesses within this industry, including gyms, training studios and associated businesses. We combine very competitive insurance premiums with expert advice and pride ourselves on our excellent service to ensure your business is properly protected. 

Love Recruitment helps matchmake candidates with incredible fitness and leisure opportunities across the UK. It offers an abundance of great job opportunities in sectors including commercial, boutique, independent, supplier and leisure. For Love Recruitment, it’s all about finding phenomenal companies the best talent while always putting both service and delivery first.  

 miha bodytec has been pioneering Whole-Body EMS for over 15 years – a transformative approach that combines traditional electric muscle stimulation with active exercise. Manufactured in Germany, its medical products offer a holistic solution to the health sector, addressing challenges posed by an ageing population and sedentary lifestyles. Its innovative blend of electrotherapy and personal care is globally recognised in healthcare, personal training and health-focused fitness. In partnership with scientific research and its loyal customers, it is committed to enhancing the therapeutic and preventive potentials of whole-body EMS technology and championing its benefits around the globe.

OS Gen (OS Generation) is an on-site energy generation expert that delivers material financial savings for its customers at no capital or ongoing cost, while bringing down the barriers to a lower carbon future, making cleaner energy a viable, affordable option.

P81 draws on over 25 years’ experience in the leisure sector to offer businesses the best solutions to their branding and product needs, working together with its customers to increase their sales, drive secondary spend and promote their brands. Its client service team can work closely with customers to ensure complete brand conformity across a wide range of products, from promotional items to uniforms. We’re proud that our success is built on a culture of service, with strong relationships with our clients, a determination to get the job done well, and, not least, worldwide network of manufacturing, logistics, and delivery solutions that is second to none. This has given P81 an enviable client list including some of the biggest leisure operators across the globe such as Basic Fit, David Lloyd, Pure Gym and Gym Group to name just a few.

Paragon Structures is the UK partner of Sprung Structures and specialises in premium tensile membrane swimming facilities. Its innovative insulated tensioned membrane structures are delivered with speed and cost-effectiveness. Committed to sustainability, its facilities can help you achieve a net-zero carbon footprint with cutting-edge technologies, sustainable materials and airtightness approaching Passivhaus levels.

Pinsent Masons does more than deliver legal services. Through its diverse networks, its well-renowned Retail and Consumer team has developed a very real and organic connection with the wellbeing industry. It provides a stable and well-structured legal foundation to allow companies to flourish, with a commercial understanding of the market that helps build and develop long-term, sustainable businesses.

Prospec is the UK’s leading leisure industry provider of locker, changing and shower room solutions. Established in 1977, Prospec isn’t just another locker and cubicle supplier: it prides itself on being the leading UK provider of high-quality storage and changing solutions, able to design, manufacture and install its products using its own in-house team.

Pulse Fitness is a market-leading provider of innovative commercial and home fitness solutions. With its award-winning portfolio, it works with over 30,000 leisure facilities in 30 countries, from private clubs, hotels and spas to rehabilitation centres, corporate gyms and universities. As well as offering 360-degree leisure solutions, Pulse Fitness is proudly the only company to research, design, develop and build technologically advanced equipment of this standard in the UK. Through the integration of its fitness app TRAKK, Pulse Fitness provides a fully-connected fitness experience.

Risk HQ is a specialist in insurance and risk management for the fitness sector. It has expertise in working with gym operators including many boutiques, and seeks to build long-term partnerships through its mission: helping leisure operators to thrive by making insurance simple, personal and relevant.

RLSS (Royal Life Saving Society) UK is the UK’s expert in water safety. It prides itself on providing the highest quality qualifications, training, guidance and consultancy to help operators to ensure everyone can enjoy water safely. The first choice for swimming pool safety, over 90% of all swimming pool lifeguards hold an RLSS UK qualification, and the organisation works with over 3,000 swimming pools.

Servicesport UK is the UK’s leading gym equipment service and repair provider, maintaining equipment from leading manufacturers such as Technogym, Life Fitness, Concept2 and Keiser in boutique studios and gyms across the country. Additional services include the manufacture of pads for boutique studio benches, upholstery repairs and the manufacture of functional training equipment such as plyo boxes.

Space & Place believes in creating ‘architecture for human beings’. Its view: it isn’t all about awards or badges, but about helping make a difference through the way people use the spaces and places it creates. Every year, the buildings it has designed are used over 100 million times by every type of person. That’s a lot of responsibility, but also a lot of opportunity to nudge and influence; to create environments to improve everyone’s life experiences; and to promote the re-thinking around improving community and economic benefit, zero carbon, and increased physical and mental wellbeing.

STA is a national governing body for swimming and an educational charity, and is dedicated to the teaching of swimming and water safety. For the last 90 years, STA has worked to deliver the highest standards of swimming teaching, and today represents 17,500 members. It partners with swim schools and leisure operators in the UK and internationally.

Swimming Nature offers a scientifically-backed methodology, along with a blueprint for profitable private swimming tuition nationwide. It offers a business model, training, technology and expertise that delivers sophisticated and tailored services to operators looking to expand their business and develop additional revenue streams. 

TANITA is the founder of Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis (BIA) and the first to bring a so-called body fat analyser to the market. By continuing to innovate and develop, we have become the world leader in health monitoring and the only manufacturer making it available to both professionals and home users. We work hard every day to do our bit for a healthier and happier world. We want to motivate people to take control of their own health. We do this through innovative technologies, development of new measurements and innovative products and partnerships.

Xplor Gym is an all-in-one gym management software, with embedded payments and integrated access control, that makes running a fitness facility easier and more profitable. Purposefully engineered to disrupt the status quo, Xplor Gym delivers new levels of speed, responsiveness and simplicity to its customers. Built with best-in-class, smart performance technology, it gives fitness club operators exactly what they need to improve operational efficiencies, supercharge member engagement and grow their fitness facilities, all without compromise.

 

OUR MEDIA PARTNERS