Leisure

By Rowland Omamor | 02 January 2024

The LATCO model is a third way to manage leisure services and bring together a commercial head an...

Districts 'think global, act local'

By Kathy O’Leary | 11 December 2023

Stroud's action plan for carbon neutrality includes continuing to put its own house in order but ...

LEISURE

Can outsourced leisure centres benefit from the VAT ruling?

By Scott Dorling | 28 November 2023

HMRC has revised its treatment of VAT on in house leisure services. Scott Dorling and Julian Jarr...

CLIMATE CHANGE

Creative solution are emerging to enable the leisure sector to thrive

By William Benson | 17 November 2023

The financial difficulties of the last few years have led many leisure centres to the edge of clo...

CLIMATE CHANGE

English-Welsh council partnership signed in bid for extra funding

By Ellie Ames | 13 November 2023

Two English and two Welsh county councils have signed a partnership agreement.

FINANCE

Public services in 'dire state'

By Ellie Ames | 31 October 2023

No public services are performing better than before the pandemic and satisfaction with councils ...

WHITEHALL

Welsh councils to wait for tourism tax

By Dan Peters | 23 October 2023

Tourism taxes will not be in place in Wales until 2027, the Welsh Government has estimated.

LEISURE

Taking on leisure's crisis

By Shaun Dawson | 16 October 2023

Shaun Dawson shares what he and his teams have learned from the challenge of launching the £30m L...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

There is still time to act on climate change

By Ian Fytche | 27 September 2023

The Prime Minister may have rowed back on key net zero policies. But Ian Fytche says that with le...

FINANCE

London council calls for power to impose overnight levy

By Ellie Ames | 20 September 2023

Westminster City Council has called on the Government to enable local authorities to tax tourists.

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