The UK's most significant physical activity and leisure industry conference — bringing together operators, policymakers, local authorities, and health bodies to shape the national agenda for sport, fitness, and active lifestyles.
The ukactive National Summit is the UK leisure and physical activity sector's most important annual event. Held in the heart of Westminster — the symbolic centre of British policymaking — it is explicitly designed to be more than a trade event: it is a political and strategic intervention, positioning fitness, leisure, and sport as central to the UK's health, economic, and social agenda.
The 2026 Summit's seminar programme examines three pillars of public life: "How We Live" (individual health behaviour, community wellbeing, and the social determinants of physical activity), "Where We Live" (the built environment, local authority leisure facilities, and place-based health infrastructure), and "How We Work" (corporate physical activity, employer health investment, and the workplace as a site of health delivery). These three pillars connect directly to the Belonging Economy framework — physical activity as social infrastructure, not just individual behaviour.
The Summit programme typically features keynote speakers addressing loneliness and social connection as acute public health crises intersecting with the leisure sector. Sport England takes a headline partnership role, leading a dedicated workshop on its Active Environments strategy.