GE APA Santé

What GE APA Santé does

GE APA Santé is a French non-profit association (Association de loi 1901) founded on April 16, 2011 and headquartered in Pessac, France, that operates as a Groupement d'Employeurs (Employer Group) delivering Adapted Physical Activity (APA) services across 7 departments of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region. The organization employs 50+ staff — approximately 50 Enseignants en APA (EAPAs) all holding at minimum a Licence APA-S degree (with some at Master's or Doctorate), plus 2 dietitians — and serves 178 member organizations with 4,000+ people accompanied weekly. Its mission is to develop and promote adapted physical activity for people with chronic diseases, disabilities, frailty, or age-related health needs who cannot participate in standard physical activity.

The organization operates through three sub-organisms: GE APA Santé Nutrition (serving VAT-exempt public and non-profit structures), Form'AP / GE APA Formation (serving VAT-subjected structures, individual clients, and providing Qualiopi-certified professional training since September 2021), and Club GE APA Santé (collective workshops for individuals with specific needs, affiliated with the Fédération Française des Clubs Omnisports). Service offerings include individual and collective APA sessions, physical capacity assessments, dietetics, workplace wellness programs (TMS/RPS prevention), health education, team building, and Qualiopi-certified continuing education for APA teachers and medical-social professionals. There is no proprietary technology platform; the "product" is delivered entirely by credentialed human practitioners.

The business model is hybrid: a core staffing / mise à disposition motion where the GE employs EAPAs and deploys them to member healthcare and social-care structures under annual conventions; unit-priced individual sessions at €40/hour billed monthly; annual Club memberships at €305/year; fee-based Form'AP training (Qualiopi-funded); and donations, sponsoring, and mécénat (66% tax-deductible in France). Revenue is co-financed by public funders including ARS Nouvelle-Aquitaine, CARSAT, CPAM, AGIRC-ARRCO, Malakoff Humanis, and seven departmental Commissions des Financeurs. Go-to-market combines direct sales to professional structures, community-led referrals via healthcare prescribers, event-driven awareness, and self-service digital enrollment for individuals.

Name

GE APA Santé

Legal name

GE APA SANTÉ NUTRITION

Website

https://ge-apa-sante.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2011

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

GE APA Santé is a French non-profit Groupement d'Employeurs founded in 2011, headquartered in Pessac, that delivers adapted physical activity (APA) services across 7 departments of Nouvelle-Aquitaine using 50+ credentialed Enseignants en APA, serving 178 member organizations and 4,000+ people weekly.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Pessac

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Staffing / Mise à Disposition Services: The core revenue model is the mise à disposition (staffing) of Enseignants en APA to member structures. Structures pay membership fees and service fees in exchange for having qualified APA instructors deployed. The GE handles all HR administration, payroll, and staff management on behalf of member organizations. Services are provided through three organisms: GE APA Santé Nutrition (non-VAT structures), Form'AP (VAT structures and individuals), and Club GE APA Santé (open workshops).
2. Professional Training (Form'AP): GE APA Formation (Form'AP) provides continuing education and professional training to APA teachers and students. Since September 2021, Form'AP has been Qualiopi certified, enabling access to public funding for training. Revenue is generated through course fees charged to participants and organizations.
3. Individual APA Sessions: Individual APA sessions are charged at €40 TTC per hour. Sessions are billed monthly to individual clients. Individual clients may also receive financing support from retirement funds, local authorities, or mutual health insurers.
4. Club Membership Fees: The Club GE APA Santé offers annual membership at €305 per year for one APA session of 1 hour per week, including a license to the Fédération Française des Clubs Omnisports (FFCO). This provides recurring annual revenue from individual members.
5. Donations, Sponsoring, and Mécénat: GE APA Santé accepts donations (66% tax-deductible in France), sponsoring, and charitable patronage (mécénat) to fund APA programs and equipment purchases.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels9 records

Core offering

GE APA Santé is a non-profit association (Association loi 1901) that operates as a Groupement d'Employeurs (employer group) recruiting and seconding Adapted Physical Activity (APA) professionals to member healthcare, social, and sports organizations across seven departments of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France. It serves 178 member organizations and provides weekly services to more than 4,000 people through three sub-organisms: GE APA Santé Nutrition (staffing), Form'AP (training), and Club GE APA Santé (individual membership).

Product overview

GE APA Santé operates as a Groupement d'Employeurs (employer group) with three distinct sub-organizations: GE APA Santé Nutrition (serving VAT-exempt structures), Form'AP - GE Formation (serving VAT-subjected structures and providing individual sessions plus professional training), and Club GE APA Santé (offering collective workshops for individuals). The organization provides adapted physical activity services including individual and collective APA sessions, physical capacity assessments, dietetics services, workplace wellness programs, health education, team building, and professional training programs. Certified Qualiopi since September 2021.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• GE APA Santé Nutrition: Interventions en APA auprès des structures non soumises à la TVA
• GE APA Formation (Form'AP)
• Club GE APA Santé

Products and services

• GE APA Santé Nutrition (APA Staffing / Mise à disposition) Shared-employer staffing service that recruits, employs, and secondments Adapted Physical Activity (APA) professionals to member healthcare, social, and sports organizations across seven departments of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France. Targets the 178 member organizations of GE APA Santé.
• Form'AP (Training program for APA teachers) Professional training and qualification program for Adapted Physical Activity (APA) teachers, ensuring a pipeline of certified professionals for the network and the broader Adapted Physical Activity sector.
• Club GE APA Santé (Annual membership) Annual membership-based club providing regular Adapted Physical Activity sessions to individual members, priced at €305 per year. Targets individual wellness seekers and patients in Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
• Individual APA Sessions (Sessions ponctuelles) One-off individual Adapted Physical Activity sessions priced at €40 per hour, available to the general public; free for eligible populations (e.g., patients with chronic conditions) under the French healthcare pathway, funded through donations and sponsorships.

Quantifiable outcome

• 4,000+ people receive APA support weekly across 178 member structures in 7 departments
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers9 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Fédération Française des Clubs Omnisports (FFCO)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerClub GE APA Santé is affiliated to the FFCO, enabling it to issue federation licenses to members and benefit from the federation's structure, events, and insurance framework for organized physical activity clubs.
• ASDIA (Apnée du Sommeil)minorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorASDIA (a sleep apnea care network) referred a patient to GE APA Santé for APA sessions, acting as an informal referral channel connecting patients with specific pathologies to APA services.
• Local municipalities and collectivitéscoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorLocal town halls and public authorities provide facilities (halls, sports spaces) for collective APA workshops at no or low cost, facilitating access for residents and enabling GE APA instructors to run sessions in community settings.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves8 records

Expansion highlights7 records

Direct peers

• Réseau Sport-Santé Bien-Être: Federating regional sport-santé networks across France, the Réseau Sport-Santé Bien-Être is the national-level ecosystem in which APA services like GE APA Santé are delivered, sharing the same prescriber pathways and adapted-activity terminology.
• Siel Bleu: Siel Bleu is the largest French non-profit providing adapted physical activity (APA) sessions to seniors and people with chronic conditions, employing licensed APA instructors across France via a model highly analogous to GE APA Santé's mise à disposition and club-network approach.

Others

• Association Française des Diabétiques (AFD) – regional delegations: Patient association that prescribes and co-organizes adapted physical activity programs for members with chronic conditions in the same doctor-referral pathway used by GE APA Santé.
• Comité Régional Olympique et Sportif (CROS) Nouvelle-Aquitaine: Regional sport-governing body coordinating sport-santé policy and funding in the same 7 Nouvelle-Aquitaine departments that GE APA Santé serves, frequently co-financing APA instructor deployments and senior gyms.
• Klesia (Klesia Prévoyance): French social-protection group that co-finances adapted physical activity and prevention programs through CARSAT-style mechanisms, paralleling the role played by Malakoff Humanis and CARSAT for GE APA Santé.

Broad incumbents

• Fédération Française Sports pour Tous: National federation offering adapted physical activity, senior gym douce, and instructor training across a broad leisure-sport portfolio; FFCO, which GE APA Santé's club is affiliated to, sits in this same family of federations that license clubs and instructors for adapted activity.
• Fédération Française d'Éducation Physique et de Gymnastique Volontaire (FFEPGV): Federation running gym volontaire, senior gym douce, and adapted activity clubs nationwide, plus training of animateurs comparable in scope and pedagogy to GE APA Santé's Enseignants en APA.

Emerging players

• Cap Retraite / association Equilibr'Age: Regional French APA and senior gym douce associations focused on the over-55 cohort that overlap with GE APA Santé's collective workshop clientele and municipal-facility workshop model.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance1 record

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Valuation estimate

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Subsidiaries3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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