ukactive is a not-for-profit industry association, promoting the interests of commercial fitness gyms and community leisure centres,[1] with more than 3500 organisations in membership.

[7] Current partners include Sport England, Argos, DHL, Coca-Cola, Essex County Council, Legal & General and the National Childbirth Trust.

In collaboration with the National Centre for Sport and Exercise Medicine and Public Health England, it is seeking to identify physical activity programmes that demonstrate good and promising practice in local communities, through surveys.

It found that one in four people in England fail to achieve more than 30 minutes’ moderate physical activity over 28 days, yet local authorities spent just 2.4 per cent of public health budgets on inactivity.

[11] It led to a doubling on local authority public health spending on England's 'inactivity epidemic', and also preceded the launch of 'Move More, Live More', a Government commitment to reduce the nation's physical inactivity levels.

The follow-up to this report was the November 2016 Blueprint for an Active Britain: Milestone Review,[17] which analysed the progress made in the post-Blueprint landscape.

It outlined fresh, practical policy recommendations across a range of areas that Government and other key stakeholders including ukactive should work towards in the future.

[18] ukactive's Public Affairs department engages with central government, including parliamentarians and ministers to highlight the importance of the physical activity agenda.