Tees Active

What Tees Active does

Tees Active is a UK-registered non-profit organization founded in 2004 and headquartered in Stockton-on-Tees. Its stated purpose is to raise the physical and mental wellbeing of the local community, implying it operates community-facing wellbeing services — typically leisure, sport, or health-orientated facilities — for residents in the Tees area of North East England. The organization employs between 51 and 100 people, placing it in the small-to-mid category for a UK community leisure or wellbeing operator.

No detailed product, pricing, customer, or revenue data could be extracted from the available sources. The corporate website (teesactive.co.uk) returned only a verification/loading page at the time of data capture, so information on specific facilities, programmes, membership models, partnerships, or funding sources is unavailable. No information was found on technology stack, digital products, AI capabilities, leadership team, ownership structure, or strategic transactions.

As a non-profit, Tees Active's revenue mechanics are likely a mix of user fees, memberships, local authority grants or service contracts, and possibly charitable donations, though none of these are confirmed in the input data. No financial statements, funding rounds, or disclosed investors were provided. Consequently, any analytical conclusion is bounded by very limited firmographic detail and the absence of operational disclosures.

Name

Tees Active

Website

https://teesactive.co.uk

Company type

Private

Founded year

2004

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Tees Active is a UK non-profit founded in 2004 in Stockton-on-Tees, dedicated to raising the physical and mental wellbeing of the local community through community-facing services, employing 51-100 staff.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Community Health & Wellness Services

NAICS

Fitness and Recreational Sports Centers (71394), Fitness and Recreational Sports Centers (713940)

SIC

Services-Membership Sports & Recreation Clubs (7997)

akta.pro primary industry

Lifestyle & Habit Change Coaching (HSADAGAB)

akta.pro secondary industry

HIIT & Circuit Bootcamps (HSADABAA)

Keywords

• Community wellness programs
• Physical health services
• Mental wellbeing support
• Non-profit fitness services
• Community health promotion

Headquarters

HQ city

Stockton-on-tees

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations

Core offering

Tees Active is a non-profit organization based in Stockton-on-Tees, UK, that delivers programs and services aimed at raising the physical and mental wellbeing of the local community. Founded in 2004, it operates community-facing health, fitness, and wellness activities through a small-to-mid sized staff team of 51-100 employees.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves1 record

Broad incumbents

• The Gym Group: Listed UK value gym operator with national footprint. Competes with Tees Active for price-sensitive fitness members, especially in regional towns across the North East.
• PureGym: Largest low-cost commercial gym chain in the UK. Represents a key competitive force to Tees Active on price and convenience, serving overlapping fitness customer segments though with a different ownership and funding model.

Direct peers

• 1Life: Management-intensive operator of public leisure facilities in partnership with UK councils. Comparable facility mix and contract-based operating model to a community leisure trust.
• Places Leisure: Non-profit social enterprise operating leisure and health facilities in partnership with UK local authorities. Same community wellbeing remit and council-aligned operating model as Tees Active.
• Everyone Active: A major UK leisure trust-style operator running more than 200 leisure and cultural venues on behalf of local authorities. Highly comparable mission, contract model, and facility mix to Tees Active.
• GLL (Better): The UK's largest public leisure charitable social enterprise, operating pools, gyms, and community programmes on behalf of local authorities in partnership with councils. Directly comparable to Tees Active as a non-profit leisure trust delivering physical and mental wellbeing services under council-aligned contracts.
• Halo Leisure: UK-based charity and leisure trust operating fitness, swim, and community programmes in the South West and Midlands. Comparable non-profit leisure trust model serving regional communities.
• Fusion Lifestyle: Charity-based leisure trust operating gyms, pools, and community facilities primarily in Greater London and the South East. Closely comparable as a non-profit community leisure operator.

Others

• Better (Local Government boundary leisure services): Beyond the GLL parent, the 'Better' brand and adjacent community wellness networks form a wider ecosystem of partnerships Tees Active could partner with or benchmark against for programming and digital services.

Regional players

• LiveWire (Warrington) / Brio Leisure: Regional leisure trusts operating community fitness and wellbeing facilities in the North West of England. Comparable local-authority-aligned operating model to Tees Active, though in a different geographic catchment.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/teesactive

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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