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.
We are delighted to have been invited to contribute to the Sports Think Tank’s 2024 manifesto, brilliantly curated by Andy Reed OBE.
In the first of our series of blogs (Pivoting with Purpose) on the pivot to active wellbeing, SLC’s Duncan Wood-Allum urged the public sector to seize the opportunity to improve population health by pivoting its leisure services to active wellbeing. In this blog, we turn our attention to some of…
Toby Kingsbury reflects on SLC’s recent experience of supporting Councils through their sport, physical activity and leisure procurements. In this blog he explores how operators are responding positively to new contract opportunities, despite the challenging market conditions. We’re all aware of the unprecedented challenges faced by our sector over the…
That was the year that was… 2022 is a year many in local government and the sport, physical activity and active wellbeing and cultural sectors will want to forget. However, despite sluggish recovery in many areas, labour market shortages, rising supply chain and construction costs, inflation and to top it…
Battered through the Covid pandemic. Sluggish recovery. Increased supply chain costs. Recruitment and retention issues. UK and global economic instability leading to the cost-of-living crisis. Utility costs decimating any gains made through efficiency, programming, and service innovation. The public sector leisure sector is going through an existential crisis, according to…