GLL, which trades as Better, has lost £170m in revenue
- Credit: Greenwich Leisure Ltd
Camden Council says it will consider new ways of running leisure centres once the pandemic is over – including bringing sports facilities in-house.
The town hall signed a 10-year contract worth £18.9m with Greenwich Leisure Ltd (GLL) last January to run the borough’s gyms, but the council says it will reassess its leisure services once the full impact of Covid becomes clearer.
GLL, a not-for-profit which runs under the name Better, has relied on the government’s furlough scheme and received bailouts from local authorities – including in Islington – to manage more than 500 job cuts and £170m of lost revenue during the pandemic.