Physical Activity Facilities Forum Directory 2023

Marianne Boyle, Director of Membership & Sector Development, ukactive Title: “How ukactive are Supporting the Growth and Development of the UK Fitness and Leisure Sector.”

SYNOPSIS: Exploring Vision 2030, the vision for growth and development across the fitness and leisure sector, for more than five million new participants drawn from a greater diversity of backgrounds. We will look at progress made since the launch of the strategy in 2022 and the key milestones that need to be achieved for us to be successful in getting more people, more active, more often and securing a viable and sustainable sector for the future. BIOGRAPHY: Marianne Boyle is the Director of Membership and Sector Development at ukactive. Marianne’s career to date includes over 15 years working in the public sector within both Public Health and Leisure Services with extensive knowledge and experience in managing leisure services and delivering revenue and capital programmes including multi-million pound sport and leisure projects. Throughout her time with local government and in the Higher Education sector, Marianne has been responsible for steering significant strategic change to improve the development, management, and delivery of services in the long term. As Director Membership and Sector Development Marianne’s role is to provide ukactive’s membership with an outstanding experience, impactful events and marketing, and expertise that benefits the sector and consumers across areas such as health, inclusion, digital, children and young people, infrastructure, and campaigning.