CLOA Sponsors

CLOA is keen to develop new corporate partnerships. In order to offer a competitive package, we have developed Principal and Associate sponsorship options. You can find out more here.

Alternatively we can tailor a sponsorship package to suit your requirements. Our sponsors are important to us; so please call Heidi Bellamy on 01379 384530 for a conversation about how we can work together.

Xn Leisure – Principle Sponsor

Xn Leisure is the leader in Leisure Management Solutions, and has over 3 decades of experience in delivering award winning IT solutions for the leisure sector.

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With thousands of users who benefit from their wealth of industry knowledge and expertise, Xn Leisure is the technology partner of choice for the Leisure Industry.

Xn Leisure has a solutions and services portfolio that includes:

  • Locally or centrally hosted systems.
  • Wizard based membership and prospect management.
  • Innovative Bookings, EPOS, ticketing and session management.
  • Online Bookings and Memberships
  • Self Service – Winners of Retail Systems Awards Winners 2010 – Best Use of technology in the Hospitality and Leisure Sector.
  • Automated email & text marketing.
  • State of the art course management – hand held registers, web home portal for progress tracking and payments.
  • Xn ticket a new multi-functional, stand alone, web based ticketing solution that can help maximise sales and provide valuable intelligence about audiences – see a short presentation about Xn ticket here.

Find out how Xn Leisure have worked to help solve issues with their innovative solutions here. For more information contact Jason Watts jason.watts@xnleisure.com or visit www.xnleisure.com

Xn Leisure solutions can now be purchased on a call off basis via the Local Authority Software Application (LASA) framework. The framework minimises costs and reduces timescales by using a standardised framework Terms and Conditions, no fixed timescales and no OJEU finance limitations.  You can find e-market place guidance for the public sector here.

Kajima Community – Associate Sponsor

Kajima Community specialise in helping the public sector to optimise the use of their facilities.

Across Local Government, Healthcare and Education, Kajima Community provides an online booking platform to over 700 public sector venues, generating over £20m in income annually.

The long-term vision is to help Councils introduce a centralised Booking.com-style approach to how residents search, book, and pay for community space online – encompassing community spaces, libraries, leisure facilities, meeting rooms, IT suites, or outdoor spaces. The BookingsPlus platform is in operation across a growing number of Councils across the UK, fitting a wide variety of use cases.

The benefits of adopting this approach are; improving customer experience, increasing enquiries and bookings, and streamlining administration for cost-saving purposes. Additionally, accessible analytics and utilisation data inform future decision-making.

Examples of Kajima Community’s work include:

  • Hackney Council – providing online booking and virtual tours across 40 community assets within the Borough and generating +44% booking enquiries and +41% bookings income alongside operational savings, in year one.
  • Libraries Unlimited – providing online room hire, workspace hire, and shared machine booking across 30 libraries in Devon and Torbay.
  • Away from Local Government, Kajima Community developed Open Space with NHS Property Services (NHSPS), a national marketplace of clinical and non-clinical healthcare space, which has had a substantial impact on utilisation, income collection and streamlining administration. Around 300 schools and academies use variants of the software to manage community lettings.

For CLOA members considering how to maximise use of their community spaces, Kajima Community will be delighted to meet, discuss your requirement and share insights from many successful implementations. Get in touch with Jack Woodley via jack.woodley@kajima.co.uk and 0207 314 3939.

Blake Morgan – Associate Sponsor

Blake Morgan is a leading UK law firm providing a breadth of legal services across the private and public sectors.

With a long heritage and committed client base, the firm’s partners and teams offer a depth of expertise in their key sectors, to include local authority leisure and different local authority service delivery structures. Providing highly tailored legal solutions to public sector clients is a key strength.

Blake Morgan is on the Crown Commercial Service’s (CCS) Public Sector Legal Services Framework – extending the firm’s successful relationship with existing clients under the framework, and making it straightforward for new public sector clients to access the firm’s legal expertise. Information about the services offered under the framework is available here.

Headed by Penny Rinta-Suksi, a Leading Individual in the Legal 500, and industry name in local authority leisure, Blake Morgan’s local authority team of legal experts specialise in a number of areas such as leisure, libraries, housing, education, waste and social care.

A selection of legal services offered on the CCS framework include:

  • Contracts, commercial and charities work to include joint venture structures
  • Outsourcing/Insourcing
  • Data Protection & Information Law
  • Administrative & Public Law
  • Non-Complex Finance
  • Energy, Natural Resources & Climate Change
  • Infrastructure
  • Litigation & Dispute Resolution
  • Property, Real Estate & Construction
  • Employment
  • Restructuring & Insolvency
  • Telecommunications

Blake Morgan has a strong regional presence across southern England and Wales, serving its clients across the UK from offices in London, Cardiff, Reading, Oxford and Southampton.

To find out more about the firm’s experience, visit their website, or contact Penny Rinta-Suksi to get in touch.

Bigwave Marketing – Associate Sponsor

Bigwave Marketing is a leading specialist in Leisure & Culture that works with more than 550 facilities in the UK. The agency also works across tourism, hospitality, charity, education, biotech and construction. ​

The core Bigwave team comprises 40+ marketing professionals providing services which include:

  • Account Management
  • Business development/solutions (swim school/membership growth)
  • Content marketing
  • Demographic research
  • eMarketing & SMS
  • Graphic design & branding
  • Marketing campaigns, planning & consultancy
  • Paid media (PPC) management
  • Photography & Video
  • Search Engine Optimisation
  • Social media management
  • Training (Digital, SEO, PPC, Social)
  • Website design and build

The agency is both a Google Partner and a Facebook Marketing Partner, meaning it is well placed to help organisations grow, and are an European Search Awards finalist.​

14+ years’ sector experience provides great insight to deliver effective and cost effective traditional, and digital, marketing. Extensive in-house knowledge helps grow Swim Schools and Fitness membership bases, while partnerships with suppliers and bodies across the sector makes the agency well placed to handle integrations and connect your dots. ​

Find out how Bigwave can help you connect your marketing dots and grow your organisation. For more information contact Simon Beer on 01392 492 380 or visit www.bigwave.co.uk

To help ensure our communities stay active in mind and body during this difficult time Bigwave Marketing, has pulled together an exclusive Lockdown offer for CLOA members of social ideas, activities and engagement tools that can be fully branded to your organisation. Take a look at the brochure here and contact tomgozna@bigwave.co.uk to find out more based on your own bespoke requirements.