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Sports and leisure facilities play a vital role in supporting the health and wellbeing of a local community.
Communities getting active together
Sports and leisure facilities play a vital role in supporting the health and wellbeing of a local community.
A report from the Local Government Association in January 2020 found that 63% of sports halls and swimming pools were more than 10 years old and of the older stock; one in four of them had not been refurbished in over two decades. As the research was published the Covid-19 pandemic was gaining pace in the UK, propelling the need for high-quality, accessible leisure centres into the long-term strategies of the public sector.
Now, modern and sustainable wet and dry leisure facilities are demonstrating their role in addressing public health issues such as physical inactivity, health inequalities, issues associated with an aging population and the long-term effects of the Covid-19 pandemic.
These modern facilities are an important link to our healthcare projects and social prescribing in the community. Where people can be connected to activities, groups and services that meet the practical, social and emotional needs that affect their health and wellbeing. Thus, reducing waiting lists and chronic health conditions and easing pressure on the NHS through early intervention and prevention.
Creating long-term social value
Leisure facilities are often the hub of a diverse community. Our leisure projects are collaboratively driven by our own and customers objectives to deliver socio and economic outcomes for everyone living or working in the locality.
As part of our local social value strategies work placements and skills training, apprenticeships and focused community enrichment activities drive engagement with the facility as it’s constructed. Meanwhile, upon delivery flexible public spaces and cafes are providing the environments needed to create community cohesion, support mental wellbeing and youth development.
Our work in the leisure sector
Our capability includes brand-new sport and leisure centres to replace buildings no longer suitable for public use. As well as sensitive refurbishment and decarbonisation of existing wet and dry facilities to improve public health and drive sustainable running costs.
What’s more, organisations such as UK Sport working with funders such as the National Lottery, are developing the grassroots facilities needed to nurture UK-sporting talent. Funding is a critical part of many leisure projects and as a business we have demonstrable experience in the sequencing, design and delivery of leisure facilities that meet the requirements of multiple sport governing bodies and key funding gateways.
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