Chichester District Council (CDC) has awarded More Community Leisure Trust (part of Serco Leisure) a 15-year contract to manage and operate their facilities, beginning on the 1st May 2026. In July 2024, SLC was appointed by CDC to support the procurement of a new Leisure and Active Communities Management Contract for…
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LGR article 3 – Opportunities and challenges SLC’s Dom Hudson, Principal Consultant, has written this report as the latest instalment in a series on Local Government Reorganisation (LGR), following on from two earlier articles: LGR – a once in a generation opportunity? LGR – strategic decisions facing local authorities The report explores…
Leisure Services Delivery Support
Leisure Services Delivery Support
Leisure Services Delivery Support
For years, the question of whether local authorities should charge VAT on leisure services has been a point of contention with HMRC. HMRC’s longstanding view was straightforward: leisure centres and sports facilities were business activities, so income was subject to VAT. Local authorities disagreed, arguing that they were providing leisure…
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Is this the end of public leisure services as we know it? Yes – but active wellbeing is our collective future Duncan Wood-Allum, Managing Director of SLC, recently produced an article for Health Club Management outlining the reasons why he believes the investment in place-based working hasn’t realised its full…
