In recent years culture, arts and sport have been widely used to drive regeneration, build cohesive communities and change the way that places are perceived. Major cultural projects have been used successfully […]
Health & well-being
The transfer of public health from the NHS to local government and Public Health England (PHE) was one of the most significant extensions of local government powers and duties in […]
Future direction for arts, museums and libraries.
Arts Council England (ACE) is the lead development agency for the Arts, Museums and Libraries. Arts Council England supports a range of activities from theatre to digital art, reading to […]
Crime and Anti-social Behaviour
It has long been recognised that culture and sport have an important role to play in preventing young people becoming involved in crime and anti-social behaviour. In response to this […]
CLOA AGM & Members Meeting 2014
This annual event focused on the challenges facing future government in terms of embedding sport and physical activity across health and education, the Olympic legacy at Lee Valley Park, how Visit England & ACE […]
Is there a Parks Alliance?
Back in October 2012 I represented CLOA at The UK’s first Public Parks Summit. The country was still inspired by the Olympics where our green spaces had been the […]
Leading Places: making the most of your cultural and sport assets
Keynote speakers at LGA/ cCLOA culture, tourism and sport conference included: Rt Hon Maria Miller, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, Sir Peter Bazalgette, Chair of Arts Council England, Nick Bitel, […]
Chair’s Opinion
Iain Varah, Chair & Mark Allman, Vice- Chair of CLOA reflect on the future role of local authority sports and leisure services and the principle issues facing local government.
Is it that time already?
These are the personal views of Yinnon Ezra, Specialist Advisor for Libraries, and not those of DCMS. The year at DCMS has really flown by! What follows are some thoughts about […]
Musings on being awarded Public Servant of the Year
2012…well what a year that was, and I didn’t think it could get any better, but it just has!! In public service, you work all your life trying to make […]
