South Lanarkshire Leisure and Culture

Club Engagement Sessions

As part of our on-going commitment to community groups and grass route organisations, SLLC recently added three additional workshops to our Clubs and Communities Development Programme for 2022-2023.

These workshops focus on key themes for good governance and organisational development for community groups. However, as part of price and concessional discount changes from April 2023, SLLC also offered engagement sessions to further understand clubs’ concerns as well as share additional detail around how and why decisions have been made.

There were over 25 different organisations in attendance across the three workshops on offer, as well as local Councillors and members of staff from both South Lanarkshire Leisure and Culture and South Lanarkshire Council.

The engagement raised a number of concerns related to the U16 price policy which included the following themes:

• Timescale of implementation
• Communication with Clubs
• Unwelcome price increases
• Large scale impact
• Impact on Council Plan outcomes

The information has been fed back to the board of SLLC as well as SLC.

SLLC would like to thank the partners who helped to support the offer to clubs. These included Voluntary Action South Lanarkshire, Motherwell Community Trust, South Lanarkshire Council (External Funding Team and Estates Team) and Club Development Scotland.

We will again deliver a development programme for 2023-24, if you would like to know more please contact customer.services@southlanarkshireleisure.co.uk