Everyone Active chosen to run Sheffield facilities

Sports and Leisure Management’s Everyone Active has been announced as the new operator of Sheffield’s sport and leisure venues, as of January 2025.  

Last year, Sheffield City Council revealed that the city’s leisure and entertainment venues were set to receive £117 million of investment including rebuilds of some of the city’s most popular leisure centres and improvements to Sheffield’s Utilita Arena and City Hall. 

As part of these plans, in June 2023, a competitive procurement process was launched in a bid to attract the best in leisure and entertainment provision to run Sheffield’s venues. 

Earlier this year, ASM Global was announced as the new operator for the entertainment venues, Utilita Arena Sheffield and Sheffield City Hall.

Following the final stage of the highly competitive tender process, Everyone Active, part of Sports and Leisure Management (SLM), has now been announced as the new operator of Sheffield’s citywide sport and leisure centres, and golf courses.

Everyone Active is the longest established and most experienced leisure operator in the UK, having been founded in 1987. Their mission is to encourage more people to take part in physical activity, in person at one of their centres or via on demand training.

They manage over 220 leisure and cultural centres across the UK in partnership with more than 60 different local authorities.

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