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…
LGR article 2 The landscape of local government is shifting. As local authorities move through Local Government Reorganisation (LGR), the choices made today will set the tone for public services for the next generation. At the heart of these changes lies a crucial question for our sector: how can leisure,…
LGR article 1 Together with our public sector clients, we are exploring the implications of local government reorganisation (LGR) for leisure and active wellbeing services. Dom Hudson and SLC colleagues have been examining the potential threats, hurdles and opportunities that may lie ahead through our work with local authorities and…
It’s hard to believe that this month marks my first year at SLC! Over the course of the past year, I’ve grown from being an industry newbie to playing a key role in several major public leisure and active wellbeing projects. This includes the development of an active wellbeing operating and…
My time at SLC began with a month-long internship in September. I had just come back from the Olympics where I was the reserve goalkeeper for the Great Britain Men’s Hockey squad. I was also finishing my Masters in Sport Management, Politics and International Development at Loughborough University. My Masters…
The sport, leisure and active wellbeing sector loves a strategy. Typically, local authorities use them to set out their policy position, direction, priority outcomes and plans. Active Partnerships use them to highlight and articulate their purpose and work as a systems leader across their locality. Huge amounts of time and…
In May we asked Martyn Allison to facilitate a meeting of the Local Government Physical Activity Partnership to review the progress made implementing the Future of Public Sector Leisure report (published by Sport England in 2022).
We were pleased to be invited to participate in a HCM discussion piece about what needs to happen to integrate physical activity with healthcare, and successfully “pivoting to active wellbeing “.
Following on from our contribution to the Sports Think Tank’s 2024 manifesto, Andy Reed OBE recently interviewed Duncan Wood-Allum in a podcast where they discuss the future of public leisure pivoting to active wellbeing and its role in place. Martyn Allison commenting on the podcast said “Change is happening in…
We were pleased to be invited to participate in a discussion piece based on SLC’s white paper and analysis on the sector workforce in HCM’s latest feature. The leader is provocative and arguably controversial but we need to talk about workforce.