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Beacon
Beacon offers a refreshing approach to purchasing, with resourceful solutions tailored to reducing businesses’ costs. Its expertise lies in revealing ways to help businesses grow their profitability. Beacon supports over 2,000 companies across a range of sectors and industries including hospitality, leisure and healthcare.

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Consort House Amy Johnson Way Clifton Moor York YO30 4GP

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+44 (0) 1904 695 588
(Please mention leisure-kit.net)

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+44 (0) 1904 695 406

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http://www.beaconpurchasing.co.uk/
Beacon news

04 Sep 2014
Contract win for Beacon at Buckinghamshire country club’s new hotel

Beacon has been selected to manage the design and purchasing for a new hotel being built at a Buckinghamshire golf and country club.
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  Contract win for Beacon at Buckinghamshire country club’s new hotel

Beacon features

Jeremy McCarthy
Attention to detail is a superpower and necessity in the luxury spa arena, says our contributing editor

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Sponsored
The University of Portsmouth has partnered with Technogym to unveil the state-of-the-art Ravelin Sports Centre Gym

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Immersive experiences
Truly ambitious attractions providers need to push the boundaries of immersive design by engaging visitors’ senses of pain, danger, balance, justice and more, argues Roto’s CEO

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Origin Stories
The co-creator of enduring fitness app Zombies, Run! tells how story is a powerful motivator

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Editor’s letter
Spa and wellness businesses will reopen while COVID-19 is still circulating in the community, meaning we have to find models which work in this new reality, says Katie Barnes. So how will this change the industry?

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People profile
Creating new worlds and immersing people in them

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Theme Parks
Daniel Delcourt and David Wilson share more about Disney’s €2bn expansion of Disneyland Paris

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Urban Regeneration
FromLA'sRiver Projectto thetransformationof NewYork’s Erie CanalBuro Happold'sAliceShay explores some of the world's mostinnovativeadaptivereuseprojects

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Culture
The delicate beauty of one of China’s largest bamboo forests inspired the design of this dramatic theatre in the country’s southern Jiangsu province

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Interview
The MD of The Mirai explains the strategy behind McFIT’s 20,000sq m, free-to-use mega gym, which will include a trade show element and aim to attract both locals and ‘fitness tourists’

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UK Active Awards for excellence open for nominations
UK Active Awards for excellence open for nominations   16 Apr 2024

UK Active has announced details of its annual health and fitness industry awards ceremony, which will take place in Birmingham on the evening of .... more>>
Hospitality veteran Belinda Steward takes the helm at Places Leisure
Hospitality veteran Belinda Steward takes the helm at Places Leisure   16 Apr 2024

Social enterprise, Places Leisure, which is part of the Places for People Group, has appointed Belinda Steward as MD. Steward was previously MD at .... more>>
Go Fit CEO, Mário Barbosa, unveils expansion plans in this month’s HCM
Go Fit CEO, Mário Barbosa, unveils expansion plans in this month’s HCM   15 Apr 2024

Having redefined the model of public-private collaboration in Spain, Go Fit is now expanding into Italy and has ambitious plans to grow its estate, .... more>>
Dedicated recovery clubs tipped to become a trend
Dedicated recovery clubs tipped to become a trend   11 Apr 2024

Recovery, social wellness and longevity were talking points at PerformX recently, tipped by many speakers as upcoming trends, while the exhibition .... more>>
Top operators gather from across Europe for EHFF
Top operators gather from across Europe for EHFF   10 Apr 2024

Industry experts are gathering in Cologne for today's European Health & Fitness Forum (EHFF), followed by FIBO from 11-14 April, which will feature .... more>>
Oxygen Consulting deep dives into padel with forthcoming report
Oxygen Consulting deep dives into padel with forthcoming report   09 Apr 2024

Oxygen Consulting is about to launch its first UK Padel Report, which investigates this fast-growing sport. Brought to the UK around 2012, padel .... more>>
Global summit will bring together industry leaders in health, fitness and wellness
Global summit will bring together industry leaders in health, fitness and wellness   05 Apr 2024

Global publishing outfit, Leisure Media, has announced details of its new annual conference for .... more>>
New research shows BMI fails as a measure of childhood obesity, leading to flawed policy
New research shows BMI fails as a measure of childhood obesity, leading to flawed policy   04 Apr 2024

Disturbing new research has found BMI completely fails as an accurate measure of obesity in children, calling into question the foundation for all .... more>>
Jen Holland takes over leadership of one of the UK's largest trusts, Edinburgh Leisure
Jen Holland takes over leadership of one of the UK's largest trusts, Edinburgh Leisure   13 Mar 2024

Edinburgh Leisure has appointed Jen Holland as chief executive. She will take over from June Peebles on 18 March. A qualified accountant, Holland .... more>>
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