Northumberland County Council’s leisure services are to be managed by Places for People Leisure Management Limited from April next year. The Council was supported by SLC who worked with the Council to undertake a procurement strategy and to provide support aimed at transforming the current provision to a Community Leisure…
Since the Covid-19 pandemic and, more recently, financial pressures created by spiralling energy costs, the spectre of facility closures has loomed large over the industry. Sport England is trying to do its part through the Swimming Pool Support Fund and SLC has supported many authorities with reviews, options appraisals and…
Duncan Wood-Allum urges the public leisure sector to seize the opportunity to improve population health within the coming 5 years through a pivot to active wellbeing. After a grim period since March 2020 for the public leisure sector, we think it’s about time to share some optimism. Three and a…
Most people who work in public sector leisure, sport and physical activity would be able to sketch out the typical facility mix for a leisure centre built or planned in the last 5 years on the back of an envelope. They follow a pretty standard model: decent sized gym, 2-3…
In the lead up to the budget spending review, yet again, the sport, physical activity and wellbeing sectors have sought to influence national government and ask for more resources. There have been some genuine attempts at collaboration and disappointingly, some have sought to steal the march on the others and…
Sport England has published the long-awaited Leisure Services Delivery Guidance which was developed and authored by SLC over the last two years. The guidance has been developed in consultation with a number of sector partners including; local authorities, LGA, CLOA, CLUK, The Activity Alliance, leisure operating partners, leisure consultants, and…
SLC are proud to announce that Barnet Council have approved the outline business case to invest £18.8M into development of a new Community Sports Hub facility at West Hendon Playing Fields.
SLC appointed to support Stevenage Borough Council with major leisure and cultural transformation programme
SLC are pleased to have been awarded a place on ESPO Framework 664 Consultancy Services
As various sector bodies try to lobby government for funding support, we’ve been surprised at the approaches taken given some of the geopolitical issues being faced by the UK – the biggest of all which is climate change. We did find it rather frustrating that Swim England’s recent launch of…