Published: Friday 17th June 2016 | 9.14am
A report to Cannock Council’s Cabinet highlights the continued success of the performance of Inspiring healthy lifestyles (formerly WLCT), who provide the Council’s leisure services.
The annual report for 2015-16 highlights that Inspiring healthy lifestyles have met or exceeded performance in 80% of its targets, with attendances and visits for that period in excess of 942,000.
Visitors at both Chase and Rugeley leisure centres have increased, with 808,689 visits made during 2015-16 compared to 783,811 in the previous year.
Both memberships and concessionary card holders have increased by 10% during the last year.
Cannock Park Golf Course has had a consistent year with 23,377 rounds of golf being played during 2015-16. Foot golf will be introduced 2016-17, with a soft launch already underway.
The Arts and Sports Development team continue to provide a valuable service to residents in the community.
There have been a number of successful events at the Museum of Cannock Chase these include; A Literary Landscape, Tolkein Exhibition, Star Wars Event and Woodland Murder Mystery.
Inspiring healthy lifestyles has also invested £148k into Chase and Rugeley leisure centres on re-decorations, boiler repairs and changing room refurbishment.
Councillor Christine Mitchell, Portfolio Leader for Culture and Sport said “We are now in the fourth year of our contract with Inspiring healthy lifestyles and the partnership is going from strength to strength.
Inspiring healthy lifestyles strive for continuous improvement in a very competitive market, I am delighted that they have met or exceeded 80% of their targets.”
Pete Burt, Managing Director of Inspiring healthy lifestyles said: “Working in partnership with Cannock Council and looking closely at the development of the services and activities we are delighted that Inspiring health lifestyles has increased participation levels across many of the leisure facilities currently available.
This achievement is testament to the work of the staff across all service areas who continue to share good practice and deliver excellent standards to local residents.”