About Fit&Well: Who we are and how to contact us

We're here to help you live a better, healthier, happier and longer life

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Fit&Well is for everyone, regardless of age, gender and fitness levels. Our mission is simple: to help people achieve healthier, happier living. You’ll find a range of beginner-friendly workout ideas on our site alongside in-depth features on fitness, nutrition and wellbeing.

We place a particular emphasis on exercising at home at your own pace. We also recognise that people come to exercise for a range of benefits, so we feature workouts that can help with everything from building strength to improving balance and flexibility.

Contact the Fit&Well team

Contact the editorial team with feedback, suggestions and with PR enquiries using the email addresses listed below. You can also write to us at our London office address: Fit&Well, Future Publishing, 121-141 Westbourne Terrace, London, W2 6JR

Jonathan Shannon
Jonathan Shannon

Jonathan is the editor of Fit&Well, setting the editorial strategy and ensuring high editorial standards. He became the editor of Fit&Well in 2022, but began covering health and fitness with Coach since 2016. He began his career in journalism in 2008 at Time Out, first in New York and then in London. Jonathan began running while working at Coach and has completed the London Marathon twice. He is an advocate of active travel and commutes by bike.

Ruth Gaukrodger
Ruth Gaukrodger

Ruth is the fitness editor for Fit&Well. She joined the team in 2022, having previously worked as a commissioning editor for titles across Future Publishing's portfolio including Space, Live Science and Tom's Guide. Originally a print journalist at a national newspaper, she has worked in media since 2015. She's a keen runner, yogi and Pilates enthusiast, who enjoys a meditative stretching session as much as a sweaty dumbbell workout.

Lou Mudge
Lou Mudge

Lou is a fitness writer on Fit&Well. She joined the team in 2022, having previously worked as a health writer across Future Publishing's portfolio, including Live Science, Coach and T3 Multiple diagnoses in her early twenties sparked an interest in the gut-brain axis and the impact that diet and exercise can have on both physical and mental health. Good sleep practice, meditation and journaling have been a big part of Lou’s journey with health as tools for the improvement of overall quality of life. 

Background and History

Originally a print magazine, Fit&Well launched as a digital-only platform in 2020.

The website is part of the Future Publishing group, which also publishes T3, Tom's Guide, TechRadar, Cycling Weekly, Live Science, Woman&Home, and many other popular titles.

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Advertising and licensing inquiries

For advertising inquiries, please contact Richard Hemmings, Head of Commerical - Sports at Future.

For information on using our logos, quotes and review content visit Future’s licensing webpage or email licensing@futurenet.com.

Our PR, reviews and ethics policy

Our reviews are independent and free from commercial considerations. We never take payment for reviews. We always return products on request or at the end of our agreed loan period.

Separate to our editorial content and process, we publish advertorial feature content which is clearly marked and tagged as sponsored. We also run 'in association with' articles, which are independent editorial articles, created by writers employed by Fit&Well that have been funded through the support of a commercial partner. You can read more about content funding on Fit&Well.

Affiliate & Advertising disclosure

We are committed to helping you find the best products and services for your needs and connecting you with trustworthy retailers where you can purchase them at competitive prices. Within our editorial content, we often provide links to products and services on retailer sites for which we can receive compensation—called an affiliate fee—if you click on those links or make purchases through them. That affiliate fee is paid to us by the retailer and does not directly affect the price you pay for the product or service.

Our expert editorial teams are independent. This means the products and services they select to appear in our articles are chosen based on their unbiased, expert judgement and relevance to the readers' needs and article content. While our editors may be informed by commercial insights to understand the market, our goal is always to provide independent, objective, valuable and useful advice to our readers.

Our curated product widgets that you see in some of our articles are intended to help you find the best products and services, at competitive prices, at trusted retailers.

Those widgets are powered by our own software, called Hawk, which displays the latest product and price information from thousands of retailers. We will always do our best to ensure that we display the most up-to-date information possible. On occasion, a retailer may have updated their prices, up or down, before the adverts displayed by Hawk are updated. Retailers may also add delivery or other costs to the purchase—please see the retailer's site for more information.

The affiliate fees we receive help us to continue developing Hawk as well as helping to pay our teams and other website costs.

We also run advertising in various forms. Ads on our websites are designed in a way that makes them clearly identifiable as ads and distinguishable from our editorial articles.

From time to time, we also publish paid-for editorial content on the site. This content is labelled so you can see who has funded it and how it was created. We have a full guide to content funding on Fit&Well here.

Future PLC is Fit&Well’s parent company and you can read the full terms and conditions that apply to your use of its sites on this in-depth terms and conditions page.

Fit&Well and the IPSO

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Fit&Well is a member of the IPSO (Independent Press Standards Organisation) which regulates the UK print and digital news industry.

We abide by the Editors’ Code of Practice and are committed to upholding the highest standards of journalism. If you think that we have not met those standards and want to make a complaint, please contact legal@futurenet.com.

If we are unable to resolve your complaint, or if you would like more information about IPSO or the Editors’ Code, contact IPSO on 0300 123 2220 or visit www.ipso.co.uk

Privacy policy

Fit&Well is part of Future PLC. We are both fiercely committed to protecting your privacy. Please have a look at our in-depth privacy policy.

Community Guidelines

The Fit&Well comment section is for thoughtful discussion of article topics. Together we’re developing a space where people share your passion and where you can enjoy conversations built on a foundation of respect and common interests.

Our Fit&Well community team is dedicated to providing quality content—please keep that in mind and keep disagreements respectful. Not every comment needs to be a debate – it’s fine to just talk! – but please approach all disagreements in a spirit of openness and tolerance.

If you feel like you’re getting too invested, take a deep breath and step away. You are never obligated to reply to a fellow commentator. If someone is breaching our rules or making the comments a less welcoming place then please use the report button so that our Community team can investigate further.

Whenever someone joins the comment section here at Fit&Well they should find them welcoming and insightful. We want to build a community that you’re proud to recommend to others and we can only do that together.

IMPORTANT: As with everything on Fit&Well, comments are for informational purposes only, and should not be relied upon for making significant decisions regarding your personal health and fitness or medical matters. The information presented here is not intended to replace professional advice from qualified experts in various fields. We strongly advise you to consult with a certified professional before making any major decisions or changes.

Please read our guidelines below to understand what is allowed and how our moderation system works.

Fit&Well Community Guidelines

Note: If your post is removed, it's never a personal attack but a step to maintain a respectful and engaging community in line with our guidelines.

  • Stay on Topic
    • Comments should be relevant to the article or discussion at hand.
    • Posts that stray into unrelated topics like politics or religion will be removed.
  • Respectful Interaction
    • Healthy debate is welcome, but personal attacks, harassment, or demeaning language toward others, including staff, are not permitted.
    • Hate speech or discriminatory language of any kind will result in a ban.
  • Threatening Behaviour
    • Any threats made toward staff, the subjects of articles or other users will be reviewed for what action needs to be taken and you will be banned.
    • If a threat is deemed to be credible we will contact local law enforcement.
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    • Attempts to drive readers to third-party sites will be deleted.
  • Prohibited Content
    • Do not promote or describe illegal activities, including piracy or hacking.
    • Users doing so will be banned.
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    • Users doing so will be banned.
  • Privacy Matters
    • Never share personal identifying information like email addresses or phone numbers.
    • Do not ask others to provide their personal information or share information (dox) anyone in our comment sections this will lead to an immediate ban.
  • Spam Policy
    • Spam comments will lead to an immediate and permanent ban.
  • Language
    • Comments should be in English to ensure moderators can effectively enforce these guidelines.
  • Respect Moderation Decisions
  • Names
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Our guidelines cannot cover every situation and our moderation team reserve the right to remove any comment at any time. The Fit&Well team and Future PLC do not endorse the opinions and views shared by readers in our comment sections.

Pre-moderation: When dealing with a large volume of comments it’s impossible to handle them in real time. Comments may be pre-moderated due to their content, article settings or reports by other users.

If you are finding yourself to be consistently pre-moderated then it is not targeted. How you are choosing to post is getting picked up by the system or reported by other users and can usually be fixed by following our guidelines or considering how others might read what you have posted.

Ban Appeals: If you wish to appeal a ban please contact commentmoderation@futurenet.com. Please include the name of the site you are posting on, your username and respectfully explain why you believe the ban should be overturned.