The Leisure Review: July 2010

news and editorial

In pursuit of glorious demise: taking the wheel of greatness
The Leisure Review editorial
In this summer of sporting summers what have we learned? That nothing becomes a champion like their demise and that with a close up everyone can see you cry.

News in Brief
News in Brief, issue 40. MILAMs and mayors, workplace issues and Wenlock missing, Paralympians and painting sports clubs, safeguarding and surveys, outdoors and offenders, plus news just in and the latest from LOCOG.

Row Z
The Leisure Review diary
Edition 44. French angst and panel patter, senior figures not figuring, umbrage over insights, sporting ambassadors remembered and many things best forgotten. It's all here, refracted through the broken lens of Sideliner's myopic and jaundiced eye.

The people page
People in post, posts needing people in them. Spotlight on Vicky Murphy, vacancies from the good people at JobsWithBalls and a speculative offer from the managing editor of The Leisure Review.

The events page
Details of events presented by The Leisure Review in association with partner organisations, plus some that we think you might find interesting. Find out about the TLR Insight events, The Leisure Review symposium and SLC's New York City-inspired learning sessions.

The World of Leisure
A day-by-day account of how sport, leisure and culture appears in the national press. An array of interesting and barely connected news items that we think will be of interest and/or use as you go about your daily tasks of managing, developing and promoting sport, leisure and culture opportunities.

The Leisure Manager's Library
The Leisure Review guide to leisure-related literature. Browse along the shelf of suggested reading and take one home with you.

The letters page
We bring you the very antithesis of social networking, ranting message boards and the quick fix. You write us a letter and we'll print it. Several strands of debate continue and all would benefit from your input.

features and comment

An open mind on open space
The Leisure Review talks to Paul Bramhill, chief executive of Green Space, about the state of parks and what the future might hold for green space managers.

Recharging the Battery: a New York view of leisure
Duncan Wood-Allum reports from New York where he spoke to the leading figures in the city's parks and recreation department about the key challenges facing the city’s facilities and services.

Ring of muddy water
Inspired by Paul Gogarty's odyssey around England’s canals on the eve of the new millennium, Mick Owen recently followed in his wake to see what a nation facing mountainous debt, social disintegration and an unholy hybrid of a government looks like from the Cut.

Cumbrian coach trip to participation
From the top left hand corner of England Rachel Walker explains how the Get Qualified scheme is managing to ensure that the London 2012 promise of a legacy beyond London was not just empty bombast.

Space invaders
Nick Reeves argues that greater intellectual and artistic rigour in the commissioning of public art will create better environments.

The bottom line: coping with carbon reduction
Jeremy Dodge explains why facility managers looking for energy efficiency are becoming familiar with terms such as CRC and VOP.

What to keep from the big bag of leisure?
Tales from a Tub
With spending cuts in the offing Kay Adkins wonders which bits of the sport, leisure and culture sector she would be prepared to ditch in order to save sport and finds it is not as easy as she thought it would be.

Would you like Mexican ice on your cuts?
A voice from the gods: the arts and culture column
Gail Brown reports from the first in a series of salon discussions at the Tate and wonders whether the debate did anything to advance the cause of the arts in times of public spending cuts. A flag for culture, anyone?

recent features from The Leisure Review

Wasim Khan: going in to bat for cricket
Having established his credentials in first-class cricket, Wasim Khan created the Chance to Shine programme to bring cricket into schools. Mick Owen went to Birmingham to find out more.

The London Cultural Improvement Programme
With phase two of the London Cultural Improvement Programme underway, The Leisure Review went to talk to the leading lights of the London Cultural Improvement Group about the status of culture in the capital and the thirst for improvement.

The CCPR conference: fact and fantasy
The CCPR welcomed John Amaechi to its national conference and he offered a selection of challenges, home truths and stark realities for the British sporting establishment. Jonathan Ives reports.

Culture under a coalition
With a new government in office for a few short weeks, The Leisure Review looks at the coalition’s culture team and looks at what we have learned.

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