Annual Report - Stevenage Leisure

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Stevenage Leisure Limited (SLL) is a community
based and focused Non-Profit Distributing
Organisation (NPDO) and a recognised Social
Enterprise. A private company, limited by guarantee,
SLL was originally established to manage four leisure
facilities in Stevenage.
From an original turnover of £2.5 million, four facilities and 150
employees, SLL has developed into one of the UK’s largest leisure
management NPDO’s. With the recent award of 2 new contracts,
from April 2011 SLL will manage contracts for five local authorities
across Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire & Rutland, operating 17 indoor
and outdoor facilities across 9 towns with a team of over 1,000 and a
turnover of some £15 million.
Across its wide portfolio SLL manages almost every type of leisure
and cultural facility and activity but, most importantly of all, these are
made available to everyone in the community and the company is
focused on delivering quality and value for money leisure and cultural
opportunities for all.
As an NPDO, SLL’s success has enabled it to generate surpluses,
which are continually reinvested back into the facilities for the benefit
of its teams, client partners and, most importantly, the communities
who are increasingly using the facilities.
SLL’s portfolio of facilities:
All of these facilities have established themselves as indoor and outdoor centres of excellence within the areas of sports, leisure, arts, culture,
conferencing, exhibitions, major events and corporate entertainment.
2 Annual Report 2010/11