APSE Sports and Leisure Seminar, 13 November 2024

Holywell Park Conference Centre, Loughborough 

First there was Covid-19 and then an energy crisis and then rampant inflation. All have had substantial impacts on local authority leisure with many councils returning leisure to in-house provision . Longer term, there needs to be an in-depth appraisal of the role and outcomes expected of the local delivery of leisure services and physical activity. Ideally leisure should be a seamless partner within the sphere of primary health but achieving this remains elusive for many, operating as they do in a complex system where budgets are held tightly close. Recruitment has become particularly difficulty , competing as it does with other service sector businesses.

The seminar will explore the state of the market, staffing and options to move to renewable energy along with presentations from those on the front-line and the challenges they are negotiating.

We will be looking at the challenges of refocussing a service and asking some fundamental questions about the nature of service provision in the future.

We are joined by leading industry speakers to address the issues and possible solutions.

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Presentations

State of the Leisure Market 2024

Rob Bailey, Principal Advisor, APSE Mark Allman, CLOA and APSE Associate

Building Physical Activity into a healthy future

Tom Burton, Strategic Lead - Health and Wellbeing Policy, Sport England

Social Prescribing of Physical Activity

Tracey Lines, National Lead Physical Activity, National Academy for Social Prescribing

Life leisure, a wholly owned Community interest company

John Oxley, Chief Executive Officer, Life Leisure, Stockport

Moving Communities – Real data

Emma Bernstein, Strategic Projects Lead, Sport England and Jack Shakespeare, 4Global Consulting

Net Zero and Leisure Energy Audits

Alan Barber, Chartered Energy Manager, Salvis Group Ltd