Leisure Futures

Concepts

• oxford
• recreation, culture and sport
• oxford city council
• leisure futures
• best possible leisure service
• oxford’s leisure centres
• leisure
• oxford town hall
• potential partners
• community needs

Location

Oxford

Description

Oxford City Council is holding an ‘open day’ for potential partners on Friday March 3rd, 1.30pm – 4pm at Oxford Town Hall. This will enable potential partners to understand our vision and be able to ask questions.

Total Quantity or Scope

Oxford City Council prides itself in delivering world class services and innovatively finding new solutions to meet today’s challenges. We are an award winning council with an excellent track record. Like most councils, our budgets are under immense pressure, we have seen a £7m reduction in funding because of austerity measures. While the Council will do all it can to prioritise protecting services that support the most vulnerable, we will need to find new ways of doing things and need to take tough choices to balance our budget. Our leisure centres contract expires in April 2024, which provides an opportunity for these facilities to better meet changing community needs – to reflect this we are considering changing the name from leisure to Active Wellbeing Centres. We will look to provide the best possible leisure service – we will do this through a period of dialogue with potential operators and compare this with an in-house comparator. We want an innovative solution that balances cost and social value and to improve the role the centres play in delivering the outcomes in the council’s corporate plan. We also wish to explore how we can improve the links with parks and outdoor activity.This provides an opportunity to integrate local authority services to enable a preventative, customer focussed long-term model to be developed. We now have a window of opportunity to reimagine how Oxford’s leisure centres could play a more substantial role in tackling health inequalities that is more integrated with work by health and Oxfordshire County Council public health providers. The recently produced Fit for the Future: the role of district councils in improving health and wellbeing: makes a strong case for integrating council-run leisure and wellbeing services into the health system. Additional information: A more detailed brief is available via the in-tend portal or procurement@oxford.gov.uk.we are seeking expressions of interest to discuss the potential procurementOxford City Council is holding an ‘open day’ for potential partners on Friday March 3rd, 1.30pm – 4pm at Oxford Town Hall.

CPV Codes

• 92000000 - Recreational, cultural and sporting services

Other Information

If you would like to attend this session please contact Hagan Lewisman (Active Communities Manager) at hlewisman@oxford.gov.uk by 5pm on the 2nd March, advising us of the names and roles of those attending.Thank you for considering us.Ian Brooke (Head of Community Services) ** PREVIEW NOTICE, please check Find a Tender for full details. ** Introduction Oxford City Council prides itself in delivering world class services and innovatively finding new solutions to meet today’s challenges. We are an award winning council with an excellent track record. Like most councils, our budgets are under immense pressure, we have seen a £7m reduction in funding because of austerity measures. While the Council will do all it can to prioritise protecting services that support the most vulnerable, we will need to find new ways of doing things and need to take tough choices to balance our budget. Our leisure centres contract expires in April 2024, which provides an opportunity for these facilities to better meet changing community needs – to reflect this we are considering changing the name from leisure to Active Wellbeing Centres. We will look to provide the best possible leisure service – we will do this through a period of dialogue with potential operators and compare this with an in-house comparator. We want an innovative solution that balances cost and social value and to improve the role the centres play in delivering the outcomes in the council’s corporate plan. We also wish to explore how we can improve the links with parks and outdoor activity.This provides an opportunity to integrate local authority services to enable a preventative, customer focussed long-term model to be developed. We now have a window of opportunity to reimagine how Oxford’s leisure centres could play a more substantial role in tackling health inequalities that is more integrated with work by health and Oxfordshire County Council public health providers. The recently produced Fit for the Future: the role of district councils in improving health and wellbeing: makes a strong case for integrating council-run leisure and wellbeing services into the health system.Our strategic direction Oxford City Council have just agreed a new Thriving Communities Strategy which includes our approach to leisure services. The Strategy brings together leisure, culture, and our work with communities to tackle inequalities. We will do this by encouraging well-designed neighbourhoods and parks where healthy lifestyles are the norm (sometimes called healthy place-shaping) developing skills, ensuring growth is inclusive, strengthening communities and improving access.Thriving Communities is one of the four interconnected pillars of this plan, alongside our commitment to tackling climate change, building an inclusive economy and affordable housing. We have just completed a £13 million pound leisure centre decarbonisation programme making innovative improvements to Oxford’s leisure centres.The Strategy aims include targeting our resources where they will have the greatest impact, adapting and integrate our services so they can react to changing community needs, working more closely with partners and connecting with the integrated care system and developing stainable, inclusive and accessible leisure and community offer.