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Top 25 Recreational facilities based in the United Kingdom
RevenueBase identified 392 recreational facilities headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 11,082 professional contacts across them, including 2,276 with verified work emails. London is the largest hub.
This list covers recreational facilities headquartered in the United Kingdom, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 21, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest recreational facilities based in the United Kingdom
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3,521 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Our track record in leisure operations demonstrates our devotion to the task of delivering high quality services together with our local authority partners.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 1,403 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Places Leisure is a social enterprise specialising in the development & management of leisure facilities on behalf of local authorities.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 575 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Fusion Lifestyle is a leading Sports, Leisure and Fitness operator.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 302 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “BH Live is a leading operator of leisure and event venues; a charitable social enterprise that designs and builds engaging experiences to inspire people and enrich lives.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 293 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Everybody is an independent non-profit distributing organisation (NPDO) with charitable status (Registered Charity No.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 206 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Sport Aberdeen is a registered charity, which delivers sport and physical activity on behalf of Aberdeen City Council.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 154 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Enable is a not-for-profit organisation, working in partnership with councils, charities and other organisations to deliver health, leisure and community services and events that…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 135 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are the largest operator of sport and leisure facilities in Trafford, with an annual turnover of £8 million and over 300 employees.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 123 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Live Active Leisure (LAL) is an independent ‘not for profit’ company limited by guarantee with charitable status.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 98 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Inspiring people to be happier and healthier, Newport Live runs The Riverfront Theatre and Arts Centre, Active Living Centre, Station a wellbeing and activity centre, the Newport…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 97 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We manage all leisure facilities and specialist services on behalf of Northumberland County Council, including Fitness Centres, Community Sites, School Sport and Sports…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 96 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Tees Active is one of the new breed of charitable leisure management organisations operating in North East England.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 86 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Thurrock Community Leisure (TCL), operating as Impulse Leisure, is a registered charitable trust dedicated to creating active and healthy communities.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 85 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Horizon Leisure Centres are a not-for-profit organisation that operates both Havant and Waterlooville Leisure Centres.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 85 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Sandwell Leisure Trust manages nine leisure centres in Sandwell.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 84 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Hull Culture & Leisure Ltd.(HCL) was established in 2015.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 78 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Tonbridge & Malling Leisure Trust (trading as tmactive) is a charitable, not-for-profit organisation responsible for the delivery of sport and leisure facilities on behalf of…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 71 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Pendle Leisure Trust is the leading provider of community leisure facilities in East Lancashire.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 69 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Doncaster Culture and Leisure Trust is a registered charity delivering leisure provision across eleven venues in Doncaster, offering a diverse range of health, fitness, leisure…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 60 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Newham's leisure services are now managed by GLL Ltd (trading as Better).” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 57 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Oldham Active offer members the largest choice of leisure activities in Oldham!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 53 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Bay Leisure Ltd is a leisure operator and currently works in partnerships with Swansea City Council in running the LC Swansea.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 52 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Inverclyde Leisure is a company based out of United Kingdom.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 52 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Sevenoaks Leisure Limited (SLL), operating as Sencio Community Leisure, is an Industrial Provident Society (IPS) registered with the Inland Revenue for exempt charitable status.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 48 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Enjoy East Lothian Ltd, with the trading name 'enjoyleisure' was established in October 2009 to provide and develop sport, leisure and recreational facilities and services, for…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: recreational facilities. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names recreational facilities.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of recreational facilities, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name recreational facilities. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Recreational facilities based in the United Kingdom at a glance
As of Sep 21, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United Kingdom, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United Kingdom, over 392 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among recreational facilities, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United Kingdom whose own description of what they do matches “recreational facilities”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names recreational facilities), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among recreational facilities, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United Kingdom are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 2,276 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 21, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names recreational facilities, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many recreational facilities are there based in the United Kingdom?
RevenueBase identified 392 recreational facilities headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Everyone Active - SLM, headquartered in Hinckley, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most recreational facilities?
London leads with 23 headquartered companies, followed by Manchester (7) and Bristol (6).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 2,276 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 392 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 21, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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