Culture and Leisure Cabinet Portfolio

The service continues to work closely with its leisure operators to support the ongoing recovery of the leisure sector post-COVID.

The development of a new Leisure Strategy for Buckinghamshire will both address future needs and support financial sustainability.

This portfolio is responsible for the management and liabilities from the Farnham Park and Higginson Park Trusts. These arrangements are being closely monitored and annual accounts are produced for each Trust.

Numbers of visitors to green spaces across Buckinghamshire, and particularly to the Country Parks, have remained significantly higher than pre-pandemic. This increased demand creates a pressure for the service in managing those visitor numbers and maintaining the green spaces and is being closely monitored.

Given the wider pressures on council budgets and from inflation, sustaining levels in investment in non-statutory services remains a challenge.