APSE Southern Sports and Leisure Seminar 2025
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Reading Football Stadium - Madejski Stadium, (Select Car Leasing Stadium), M4, Junction 11, Reading, RG2 0FL
This event has been kindly sponsored by Space and Place
Councils and the leisure sector continue to champion the benefits of physical activity, promoting sports, system change in participation levels and ensuring the health and wellbeing of the local population especially among girls and members of the community who may traditionally have been overlooked from sports as well as other leisure activities. Councils continue to promote physical activity; despite the many issues they face including labour shortages, the energy crisis and the cost-of-living crisis.
This seminar brings together a range of expert speakers, to explore the challenges and future of local authority sports and leisure services, staffing and look at the different ways that local authorities and partners continue to drive and increase physical activity in all.
Packed full of ideas and forward-thinking initiatives, we look forward to welcoming you to this MUST ATTEND EVENT, to explore with likeminded colleagues and partners, the local authority role in tackling inactivity and the effective provision of sports and leisure services.
Presentations
Speaker: Peter Appleton, APSE Associate
The feasibility of reuse: debating the remodelling of leisure
Speaker: Keith Ashton - Space & Place CEO, Space & Place
Managing Rising Energy costs in Public Leisure Facilities
Speaker: Alan Barber BSc MEI, Chartered Energy Manager, APSE Energy Associate
How technology in play can have a huge impact on the health and wellbeing of our children
Speakers: Chris Dixon and Steven Watts, Jupiter Play & Leisure
Getting Maldon Moving More: Beat The Street - Increasing Physical Activity
Speaker: Alexandra Card, Senior Wellbeing and Public Health Officer, Essex County Council
North West Leicestershire District Council: Active Menopause Programme
Speaker: Emma Knight, North West Leicestershire District Council
Promoting excellence in public services
APSE (Association for Public Service Excellence) is a not for profit unincorporated association working with over 300 councils throughout the UK. Promoting excellence in public services, APSE is the foremost specialist in local authority frontline services, hosting a network for frontline service providers in areas such as waste and refuse collection, parks and environmental services, cemeteries and crematorium, environmental health, leisure, school meals, cleaning, housing and building maintenance.
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