Save Everton Park Sports Centre

[Anubis]

Everton Park Sports Centre is a council owned and run facility that has brought affordable gym membership and swimming facilities to local schools and local people who would otherwise struggle to afford it.

 

Under partnership schemes with local GPs they’ve been able to provide affordable rehabilitative services to patients referred by GPs to recover from ill health.

 

Now the council wants to pass it off to the private sector to cut costs. There is already a private gym on Gt Homer St so you can see where this might lead.

 

It’s probably the last local amenity that the community have and it’s being taken away from them. Please sign and share.

 

https://www.change.org/p/save-everton-park-sports-centre?utm_medium=custom_url&utm_source=share_petition&recruited_by_id=b9d3bb30-b051-11e7-96a7-b170ca1a59f3

[Bjornebye]

Signed mate. This fucking council. 

[sir roger]

Signed.

 

I suppose they need to find the £1.3m for these Tory Commissioners expenses somewhere.

[Captain Howdy]

Yeah I’ll sign, used to play squash there every Monday night with my wife when we first got married. Great times. 

[Elite]

Done.

[Baresi]

Signed. 

[Arniepie]

siged

 

used to go there

[VERBAL DIARRHEA]

Done. Took my kids there years ago to see The Wiggles.

[YorkshireRed]

Signed. 

[sir roger]

Saw a few decent boxing cards there. 

 

Went to one with a friend and his wife, and she was just under 6 foot tall. As we stood in the aisle in the lead up to a fight, Noel Quarless walked past on the way to the ring and Lynne says loudly ' No way is he 6 foot 4 ' and he actually stopped, turned around and glared at her.

 

[Captain Turdseye]

Done. 

[Harry's Lad]

Done.

[Jimmy Hills Chin]

Sorted

[lifetime fan]

Done. 

[Barrington Womble]

signed, but fuck me, i hate that change web site. 

[Kepler-186]

Update from The Post on future of Everton Park and also Park Road. 

 

Full piece here:

 

https://open.substack.com/pub/liverpoolpost/p/in-the-deep-end-leisure-centres-could?r=7i95q&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

 

The big story: Has Liverpool given up on its leisure centres?
Top line: Liverpool City Council recently announced it could no longer afford to keep all of its leisure centres open, proposing to hand over its two worst performing Lifestyles buildings to community organisations to run instead, in a bid to tackle a £3.4m leisure budget overspend.
Context: The council says it’s no longer financially viable to run its Lifestyles Centres at Park Road in Toxteth and Everton Park, which are in “poor” condition. A 2014 council report recommended their closure, alongside Austin Rawlinson in Speke. However, a decision to shut them did not go ahead at the time, although budgets were slashed. Despite some additional funding to its eight leisure centres in 2018, this did not change the fortunes of Park Road and Everton Park, where footfall has dropped significantly, especially since the pandemic. Following a recent review, officers have recommended they be taken out of council control in a bid to cut its spiralling leisure services budget. Councillors are set to decide their next steps tomorrow.

The data: Footfall at Everton Park is down by 20% on pre-pandemic levels, with Toxteth trailing by 10%. While all Lifestyles centres are subsidised, Park Road and Everton Park don’t even come close to breaking even. The council spends over £11 million combined on the two centres and receives income of £2.4 million, leading those two to being significant outliers when it comes to average costs per visit relative to costs per user — at nearly £20 for Park Road and almost £16 for Everton Park, against an average of £8 across all Lifestyles Centres. The council needs to find savings of £900k as previously

agreed in the budget.

The options: A report set to be discussed at cabinet tomorrow states a number of options available to the council aside from the potential asset transfer to a community organisation:

 

 

 

 

 

[Anubis]

Hopefully a community organisation can take it over.

[VladimirIlyich]

On 26/11/2023 at 10:54, sir roger said:

Saw a few decent boxing cards there. 

 

Went to one with a friend and his wife, and she was just under 6 foot tall. As we stood in the aisle in the lead up to a fight, Noel Quarless walked past on the way to the ring and Lynne says loudly ' No way is he 6 foot 4 ' and he actually stopped, turned around and glared at her.

 

Oosh!