We have some seriously exciting news to share! Here at Study Active, we are absolutely buzzing to announce our brand-new partnership with fibodo, focusing on their game-changing new product: CORE.
If you haven't heard of it yet, CORE by fibodo is a brilliant, all-in-one business management platform designed specifically for self-employed coaches, personal trainers, wellness experts, and independent fitness providers. It packs everything you need into one neat tool—including calendar scheduling, seamless online payments, client relationship management, and your very own custom booking website.
Why This Matters for the Fitness Community
Study Active and fibodo share a belief that a great coach can transform far more than an individual’s fitness they can strengthen an entire community.
Trainers, instructors and coaches help people take the first step towards becoming more active. They build confidence, create friendships, reduce isolation and provide trusted, local support that improves physical and mental wellbeing. They also bring community spaces to life, create employment and make high-quality activity more accessible to people of all ages and abilities.
By helping more qualified professionals build sustainable careers, the Study Active and fibodo partnership aims to:
- Put professionals first: Place highly skilled fitness pros right at the heart of local communities.
- Boost accessibility: Make high-quality coaching much easier for everyday people to find and book.
- Inspire confidence: Create more opportunities for people to become active, connected, and confident.
- Support grassroots fitness: Strengthen local fitness initiatives and make much better use of community spaces.
- Keep talent in the industry: Help brilliant professionals stay, grow, and progress within the fitness sector.
- Raise the bar: Uplift industry standards through continued learning and ongoing professional development.
Ultimately, our big ambition here is to build a much stronger, smoother pathway from education straight into sustainable professional practice. We want to support coaches not simply to qualify, but to build lasting careers and make a meaningful difference in the communities they serve.
Study Active Managing Director, James Luscombe, sums it up perfectly:
“By partnering with fibodo and integrating their CORE platform into our ecosystem, we are giving our students and graduates immediate access to world-class business infrastructure. This removes the daunting technological and administrative barriers that so often slow down new professionals. It allows our graduates to focus entirely on what they do best: transforming lives, activating community spaces, and making a lasting difference to physical and mental wellbeing.”
Bridging the Gap Between Learning and Earning
Let’s be honest getting your qualification gives you the vital knowledge, skills, and confidence to help others. But turning those hard-earned skills into a thriving, long-term career requires a whole separate toolkit.
As a newly qualified PT or coach, you suddenly have to find and manage clients, market your services, handle tricky bookings and payments, organize your week, and build a trusted presence in your local area. It’s a lot to juggle!
This partnership bridges that exact gap. We are giving our learners and graduates direct access to top-tier professional tools and business infrastructure right from day one. By wiping out the annoying administrative and technological barriers of starting a business, you can spend less time staring at spreadsheets and more time doing what matters most: helping people become healthier, happier, and more connected.
Anthony Franklin, CEO at fibodo, is just as thrilled about what this means for the future:
“This partnership is particularly meaningful because it builds on almost a decade of collaboration between fibodo and Study Active. We’ve worked together on initiatives including Doing Our Bit, where we helped provide free fitness support to NHS workers during COVID, and we’ve continued to explore how the industry can create better career pathways for trainers, instructors and coaches. This partnership connects Study Active’s strength in education with the business operating system professionals need to put those skills to work. It’s a natural evolution of what we’ve been trying to achieve together for nearly ten years: helping more great coaches enter the profession, stay in it and create lasting value in their communities.”