2024 – Our most impactful year to date With a new government, the wider public leisure and active wellbeing sector continues to face challenges as it seeks to redefine and position itself. With limited resources, the need for innovative solutions to protect and enhance the role of public leisure and…
Gloucester City Council (GCC) has awarded Freedom Leisure a 15-year contract to manage and operate their facilities, beginning in January 2025. SLC was commissioned by GCC in August 2023 to support the procurement of a new leisure operating contract for its portfolio of two leisure facilities. Prior to this, SLC had supported…
SLC has reached a significant milestone in June 2024 and is celebrating its 15th anniversary. Since its incorporation, SLC has become the leading strategic advisor to the public leisure sector, played a key role in championing the pivot to active wellbeing and enabled half a £ billion of investment into…
SLC is the UK’s leading strategic adviser for public sector leisure, physical activity, sport and active wellbeing. We have an unrivalled track record of delivery with core cities, major metropolitan councils and local authorities supporting the pivot to active wellbeing. Our sector presence as a thought leader is firmly established…
We are delighted to announce that SLC has been awarded B Corp certification. SLC is one of only 1,500 companies in the UK which can demonstrate the highest levels of commitment to social and environmental performance, transparency, and accountability. We’re proud to be the first company in the leisure and…
A year of challenge, opportunity and a new focus for the sector 2023 has been quite a year for the leisure and active wellbeing sector. The continuing challenge of local authorities’ financial hardship has been balanced by renewed optimism from operators and an exciting new focus on active wellbeing. The…
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…