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The Park Playground, has opened its first Immersive VR franchise in Porto, Portugal. The Porto venue is the company’s fifth European location and includes a ... More

This summer's Nike’s Open Doors programme saved many children from a summer on the sofa by providing inclusive opportunities during the summer holidays, according to ... More

Vulnerable young people will be given opportunities to take part in sport and physical activity over the summer holidays by utilising school sports facilities that ... More

More than 100 sports clubs and organisations have already received grants from an emergency storm relief fund launched earlier this month. Set up by Sport ... More

The UK government is looking to create more physical activity opportunities for children by helping schools open up their facilities outside regular hours – and ... More

New figures show that Sport England's playing field safeguarding measures, designed to protect sports provision in planning applications affecting playing fields, have been successful in ... More

Waechter Architecture has created a 20,000sq ft (1,900sq m) hotel and spa complex called Society Hotel Bingen that incorporates a redeveloped schoolhouse into its design. ... More

The Cricket World Cup is set to provide English cricket a participation boost, as the tournament's legacy programmes saw more than one million children aged ... More

The City of Chicago's Department of Planning and Development (CPD) has greenlit plans to develop Lincoln Yards – a large-scale project that will see 50 ... More

Building work is set to begin in January 2019 on three community football hubs in Sunderland. The £18.04m project is being funded by the Premier ... More

Active Lives study shows group fitness classes and adrenaline sports are on the increase, Exeter aims to become the UK's most active city, RSPCA calls ... More

The Detroit West Riverfront regeneration project has been awarded an additional $50m (€43.6, £38.8m) grant from the Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation. Founded in 2014, ... More

Three new floodlit 3G artificial grass pitches, along with male and female changing facilities, car parking and an 80-station gym, have been opened at Liverpool’s ... More

English Premier League club Liverpool FC has confirmed plans to redevelop its academy site in Kirkby and the neighbouring Eddie McArdle community playing fields. The ... More

Greenwich Leisure Limited (GLL) and Finesse Leisure have finalised their merger, which will see GLL take over the facilities operated by Finesse on behalf of ... More

Sport England has updated and relaunched its guidance on playing fields planning applications, with the aim of further protecting the public spaces in which people ... More

Designs for a world-class aquatics centre have kicked off the race to get Birmingham ready for the Commonwealth Games in 2022. Existing sports facilities played ... More

The world governing bodies of football, rugby and hockey have agreed to a set of protocols to “revolutionise” the way shared sports grounds are used. ... More

Sport England intervention has saved or improved more than 1,000 playing fields over the last year. According to figures from the grassroots sports quango, 91 ... More

Tom Pursglove, MP for Corby and East Northamptonshire, has been recognised as the Grassroots Parliamentarian of the Year by the Sport and Recreation Alliance. As ... More

British Cycling has ploughed £10m (US$13.3m, €11.8m) of Sport England money into the development of purpose-built cycling facilities over the last seven years. The national ... More

Atlanta United FC – the football franchise joining Major League Soccer (MLS) in 2017 – has revealed plans for a new US$60m (£41.7m, €52.8m) training ... More

Sport England has doubled its emergency flood relief fund for sports clubs to £400,000 (US$591,736, €542,530) as large parts of northern England continue to be ... More

Scottish football club, Aberdeen FC (AFC), has earmarked the start of the 2019/20 season for the opening of its new stadium, despite not having secured ... More

Sports clubs at risk of having their playing fields or facilities sold off or closed should list them as an Asset of Community Value (ACV), ... More