About Lifetime

1995 may be remembered for many things: Take That released ‘Never Forget’ as Robbie Williams left the band. Manchester United won the Premiership. John Major was leader of the Conservative Party and Prime Minister and the movie ‘Toy Story’ grossed $192 million at the US box office. But at Lifetime, 1995 will be remembered as the year Heather Frankham, CEO established her own training and consultancy business in the fitness industry.

Ever since then, the company has grown from strength to strength developing the careers of thousands of individuals and through their teams, improved the performance of some of the biggest employers in the industry. And as a result, Lifetime is now the UK’s biggest and most successful training consultancies in the active leisure sector.

Today, Lifetime offers a wide range of solutions to our customers ranging from assessment of training and development needs for large corporates to course advice and industry recognised qualifications for individual learners. We work with the government to provide nationally recognised apprenticeships and deliver NVQ programmes within fitness, leisure operations, sales and hospitality. We even have our own awarding organisation – Lifetime Awarding – but more on this later.

We’ve a great track record and have received many awards and marks of quality to prove it.

Here’s some of our vital statistics:

  • We assess and train over 6,500 new learners a year.
  • We consistently deliver above the national average on learner completion rates.
  • 94% of learners gained employment or promotion after training with the Lifetime open courses division.
  • Over 180 people work for Lifetime ... and this grows all the time.
  • We’re the largest provider within the health and fitness sector delivering the greatest number of apprenticeships and NVQ programmes.
  • Awarded the Centre of Excellence for Fitness for National Employers' by the National Skills Academy for Sport and Active Leisure in 2008.
  • Winner of the 2009 BECTA Work-based Learning Awards for innovative use of technology in education and learning.
  • First in the leisure sector to achieve the Training Quality Standard.

“The founding principle was about supporting fitness businesses to perform better – consultancy and training to deliver outstanding fitness programmes. It was also about simplicity - finding the things that really made a difference and acting on these as well as presenting training information in a way that was easy for students despite the complexity of the subject.” Heather Frankham - Founder and CEO.

But that’s enough about us ... what about you? You’ll find everything you need to know about working with Lifetime on this site and so if you’d like to know more about the opportunities on offer, how to go about applying for a role and how to get in touch read on.