Woodford Green Library Redbridge Council wants public services like the borough’s libraries to pay for themselves as it embraces “commercialisation”. On December 15, the council’s leadership agreed the charity that runs many of these services should decrease its reliance on council funding over the next five years. Vision Redbridge Culture & Leisure (Vision - RCL) has managed a variety of the borough’s cultural and leisure services for nine years and its contract is now up for extension until 2026. Inspired by the success of the gym added to the South Woodford Library in 2015, Redbridge Council now expects more services to pay for themselves through profit-making additions.