Meeting documents

The Community Health and Leisure Manager provided members with an informative presentation about the different aspects of the service and the delivery of projects within Area North and across the district including:

·         Healthy lifestyles, communities and workplaces.

·         Sports development including badminton, hockey and tennis.

·         Play and youth facilities.

·         Play area management and inspection.

·         Play days.

·         Gold Star Awards.

·         Leisure facilities and planning gain.

·         Statistics about usage of facilities, attendance at events and securing of external funding including £194,000 from Sport England for a new innovative healthy lifestyle project.

In particular she highlighted the money banked from Section 106 planning obligations for facilities in Area North as a result of the team, and highlighted a substantial amount had been secured for the Huish Academy Artificial Grass Pitch (AGP). The service is planning to use some Section 106 money to fund feasibility studies at Huish Academy in the future.

During the ensuing discussion members raised several comments including:

·         Belief that the AGP at Huish Academy is fully booked.

·         Thanks to the team for all the work done at Ilton

In response to comments made Portfolio Holder, Councillor Sylvia Seal, confirmed that the service were working at less cost than the previous year, and that team were very good at sourcing funding. She also reminded members that the district council were now required to be more involved with public health than they had been previously, and encouraged new members to contact the team for support for leisure projects within their wards.

The Chairman and members, thanked the manager for the good work of the team.