So it’s arrived. 2012. Olympic Year. Sporting anticipation, culture, pride and pure joy awaits – possibly a few gold medals to boot. Regardless of the politics – let’s enjoy it! The Legacy debate will continue and many sports development colleagues will be just getting on with creating the very best…
Duncan Wood-Allum has been invited back to speak at the Sport and Play Construction Association’s (SAPCA’s) annual conference on Monday 30 January, 2012 at Forest of Arden Hotel, Meriden, Warwickshire. After delivering a challenging insight into what the future would hold for suppliers to the Sports sector back in January…
SLC ran a Trust Seminar on 6 October for 10 Derbyshire Councils in Matlock, with three leading Trust Chief Executives ‘telling it like it is’ and sharing their experiences of setting up, establishing and developing their Trusts. The learning proved to be very powerful for the Officers who attended. The…
Derby City Council is currently undergoing a major transformation of its Museums service. SLC have been appointed to provide the Council with specialist support linked to project managing the programme, providing business planning and bid management support for a Major Grants Application to Arts Council England (ACE). SLC is working…
Suffolk County Council has long recognised the important contribution Community Use on school sites makes to the health and wellbeing of its communities. With a direct interest in around 20 school facilities, it wanted to explore new approaches to: Broadening community access to sports facilities on school sites Improving the…
The Royal Borough of Kingston Upon Thames has appointed the Sport, Leisure and Culture Consultancy (SLC) to prepare a sport and leisure needs assessment for the borough. With the Olympic cycling road race coming through the Borough next year, interest in sport will be at an all-time high. But with…
Warrington Borough Council has appointed The Sport, Leisure and Culture Consultancy (SLC) to prepare a five year sport and physical activity strategy that looks beyond traditional ideas of exercise to deliver improved outcomes for health and wellbeing. The strategy aims to make Warrington the most active borough in the North…
Like most local authority leisure departments, Canterbury City Council is exploring the best possible way to deliver leisure services for less and ensure that service quality meets expectation into the future. With an opportunity to review the current management contract with their operating partner, back in late 2010, SLC were…
Ten local authorities in Derbyshire, led by Derbyshire Sport, the County Sports Partnership, recently challenged SLC to help them to explore efficiency savings. The Derbyshire local authorities identified the current state of their respective cultural services – sport, arts, museums, heritage and libraries – via a simple questionnaire. A number…
Having just spent two days at the LGA Culture Tourism and Sport Conference, on the long journey home I’ve been wondering how Carlsberg would do it? As the premier event in the Culture and Sport calendar, this is the ‘must attend gig’ for all those involved at a senior level…