en English East Herts Leisure Trust Failure European Services Strategy Unit : Publications : ESSU Reports for public bodies, trade unions and community organisations : Privatisation and marketisation :East Herts Leisure Trust Failure East Hertfordshire’s Leisure Services contract with Enfield Leisure Centres Ltd (Aspire Trust) had a major financial crisis in the first year of operation. Despite the Enfield Trust bid being based on an 8% increase in leisure income and a 10% cut in staffing costs, they were awarded the contract. This report shows that the attempt to save £975,000 the Council is now faced with additional estimated costs of £903,560 over five years based on the 2005/06 budget. The parent trust, Enfield Leisure Trust, went into liquidationin September 2006 and East Herts were forced to transfer lesiure services to Stevenage Leisure Trust (Commissioned by East Hertfordshire UNISON, 2006). Dexter Whitfield European Services Strategy Unit, Duagh, Camp, Tralee, County Kerry, Ireland. leisure trust outsourcing efficiency savings market testing bid evaluation consultants Community OrganisationsGovernment BodiesTrade Unions Privatisation and marketisation XHTML™ 1.0 The Extensible HyperText Markup Language (Second Edition) Level Double-A Conformance to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 Cascading Style Sheets, level 2 Copyright © 1998-2012 European Services Strategy Unit text/html HTML 2006-11-28T19:40:34Z Created 2008-12-05T14:31:59Z Modified