New Company To Run Desborough Leisure Centre
Written by HFM News on 2nd August 2022
A new company will run Desborough Leisure Centre from October.
Freedom Leisure has been awarded a three-year contract by North Northamptonshire Council, having operated facilities in other parts of the county since 2017.
The company will take-over running the facility from Legacy Leisure.
All current staff will transfer to the new company when the contract begins.
Desborough Leisure Centre
The company will also take-over running leisure facilities in Kettering and Ivan Horsfall Turner, Freedom Leisure’s CEO, said: “Having been managing facilities in Thrapston and Rushden for what was East Northamptonshire Council we are delighted to have taken forward an excellent relationship into the new North Northamptonshire Council when it was formed.
“As a genuine not for profit leisure operator providing vital physical, mental and social health benefits to the local community and realising our vision of improving lives through leisure, we are absolutely delighted to have expanded this relationship into the Kettering facilities which provides us and the Council with a further opportunity to enhance and co-ordinate services for the community”.
Cllr Helen Howell, Deputy Leader of North Northants Council and Executive Member for Sport, Leisure, Culture and Tourism, said: “To award this contract to an operator who has physical, mental and social health at the heart of everything they do, is welcome news and I look forward to seeing how successful the leisure centres will be under the management of Freedom Leisure.”
