We are experienced in the establishment of leisure services trusts, in leisure services joint ventures and in the negotiation of outsourcing contracts to specialist private sector providers.
Every case is different and we are sensitive to the special needs and requirements of individual communities, districts and their local authority.
We recognise the critical importance of value for money and affordability. In the long term any arrangement must also prove to be robust and sustainable. The contracting out of leisure services franchises in return for private sector investment can be notoriously difficult and can lead to disappointments on both sides.
We are familiar with the contracting regimes, the key public law issues and good practice which, in the case of leisure trusts, the Charity Commission will be swift to defend.
Work experience/case studies:
- Advising a Unitary Council in the near South West on the transfer out of all its leisure services functions to a company limited by guarantee which registered as a charity and which was formed for the purpose
- Advising a Unitary Council on the South Coast on the outsourcing of its leisure services to an external commercial provider
- Advising a District Council in Devon on specific leisure services and leisure centre management outsourcing contracts to private sector providers and with funding from Sport England and the RDA.
