Sport and recreation overview
...Reflecting a sporting culture
Liverpool is fast becoming a major national player in sport and sporting provision. The city's Sport and Recreation Service has responsibility for the strategic planning process and the delivery of a range of sport and recreation services.
Our main priorities are:
- The delivery of a comprehensive and vibrant Sports Development and Events Programme which aims to provide opportunities for all the city's residents to participate in sport
- Enabling young people to progress from a very basic recreational and grass roots level participation through to national/international standard if they so desire and have the necessary potential. This is achieved by working with a range of local, regional and national governing bodies of sport, schools and other partner agencies
- The delivery of a range of long established sporting events and new national and international events, which compliment and actively assist the city's status as European Capital of Culture in 2008. (Liverpool's Sports Development and Events unit was the first in Great Britain to be awarded a Chartermark)
- The management of the city's outdoor sports facilities in parks, recreation grounds, detached playing fields as well as the city's municipal golf courses and allotments,
- The Management and provision of indoor sports facilities and services through the council's network of sport centres and swimming pools (15 in all)
- Co-ordination of the financial and performance management aspect of sport and Recreation services.
Service's principal objective:
To deliver Sport and Recreation services in a way which is instrumental to the delivery of the City Council's Vision / Values and Main Aims.
More specifically:
- To provide a wide range of sporting and recreational opportunities to the citizens of Liverpool - from mass participation grass roots level to that of regional, national and international standards of performance: to enable individual's to realise their full potential.
- To improve the health and quality of life of the citizens of Liverpool.
- To deliver services of the highest possible quality at the lowest possible cost.
- To deliver work to improve the sporting infrastructure of the city.
- To further develop sports tourism.
Contacts
Head of Sport & Recreation
Robert Lyall 0151 233 6369
Lifestyles Leisure Centres and Gyms
Don Hurst 0151 233 6355
Policy and Development/Lottery grants
Gordon Dacre 0151 233 6313
Sports Development
Frank Doherty 0151 233 6336
Outdoor services/Golf Courses
Paul Thomas 0151 233 6365.