The leader of Adur District Council today assured residents that it will take all steps possible to secure sustainable leisure services in the future following the announcement that the company running centres has placed itself into voluntary liquidation.
Adur Community Leisure (ACL), an arm of the Impulse Leisure company, runs all leisure and recreational services from three centres in the district as well as the Gym Hub in Worthing and the leisure centre at Storrington. Its collapse places 150 jobs at risk.
Leader of the Council, Cllr Neil Parkin, said:
“We are very sorry this has happened and our sympathies go out to those whose jobs are now threatened.
“The Council has done everything possible to support Impulse moving forward. But we also have a duty to local taxpayers to ensure that local services are operated efficiently and cannot place a large financial burden on the authority to prop up an external organisation.
“We found ourselves in an impossible situation in that the sums asked of us were far too large with a significant risk that we wouldn't get it back and that the operators would still fail.
“This latest news proves we were right to be circumspect.
“However we will begin the process right now of finding a way to return leisure services to the community.”
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