Decision Details

To seek approval to fund Birmingham Community Leisure Trust to cover the no better/no worse position through to Covid recovery for the operation of 9 leisure centres.

On 13 December 2022, Cabinet:-

1. Noted that the strategy to externalise part of the service has significantly decreased the financial pressures on the Council since 2015 and addressed issues at 9 key facilities that had reached or were approaching the end of their lifespan, delivering 4 new leisure centres and 5 refurbishments;

    

2. Noted that the impact of Covid-19 has had a crippling impact on leisure providers across the country with financial pressures only likely to worsen again because of rising energy prices and inflation;

    

3. Agreed not to receive £0.515m of management fee income and approved modification of the contract to reflect support of the no better/no worse position of £1.092m from December 2021 through to September 2022 for all 9 leisure centres operated by Birmingham Community Leisure Trust;

    

4. Approved use of the Finance Resilience Reserve to fund the balance remaining after cost mitigations delivered by the service. This will be no greater than £1.607m;

    

5. Authorised the City Solicitor and Monitoring Officer (or their delegate) to agree and complete all necessary documents to give effect to the above decisions.