News

EHFA's news archive holds the association's own record of its work, from the internships it advertised at its Brussels secretariat in 2008 to the industry summit it convened in November 2011. The items on this channel are the general news: notices about the standards work, the EREPS register, the association's EU-funded projects and the sector's engagement with the European institutions.

Two further channels ran alongside it. Events carried the meetings in the association's own programme, and press releases carried the statements it issued to the trade and national media. The three indexes together cover every article the archive holds.

• 9 November 2011 — Preliminary results of EHFA's Fitness Against Doping project
• 14 October 2011 — Latest EHFA newsletter: EHFA Update No.17/2011
• 20 September 2011 — EHFA offers an internship
• 18 August 2011 — Registrations now open: EHFA Brussels Summit
• 29 July 2011 — EHFA qualifications standards: TEG meeting in London
• 23 June 2011 — EHFA opens tender procedure
• 31 May 2011 — EU consultation on VAT: EHFA response
• 14 April 2011 — EHFA EQF level 2 standards adopted by general assembly
• 23 November 2010 — EU Commission at EHFA London Summit
• 22 November 2010 — Public pledge by fitness sector
• 4 October 2010 — Latest Eurobarometer on sport and physical activity
• 27 September 2010 — Low-cost gyms in the UK
• 30 July 2010 — EHFA 3rd National Associations Forum programme
• 6 July 2010 — Employer survey in fitness
• 7 June 2010 — EU affairs: EHFA offers an internship
• 19 April 2010 — EHFA 3rd European Fitness Forum, Madrid, 10 & 11 May 2010
• 22 March 2010 — EHFA Vision 2016 for members' comments
• 3 February 2010 — EHFA seeks coordinator of EHFA projects and EREPS programme
• 29 January 2010 — 2010 general assembly in Essen, Germany, on 23 April 2010
• 29 April 2009 — EHFA offers an internship
• 26 May 2008 — EHFA offers an internship

Read in sequence, the items trace a change of subject. The earliest are about the association's own machinery: internships at the secretariat, the annual general assembly, the consultation on Vision 2016. From 2010 the notices turn outwards - the Eurobarometer survey on sport and physical activity, the employer survey in fitness, the growth of low-cost gyms in the UK, the sector's response to the European consultation on VAT, and the adoption of the EQF level 2 standards by the general assembly in April 2011.

That change of subject is the record of an association that had stopped arguing for a framework and started maintaining one. The technical detail behind the notices sits under standards and in the work of the Standards Council; the register they describe is at EREPS, and the newsletter that carried the same material to members between assemblies is at EHFA Update.