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To submit a report by the Head of Regulation and Economic Development.

It was resolved to approve the Môn Actif Strategic Plan 2024-29.

The report of the Head of Regulation and Economic Development incorporating the Môn Actif Strategic Plan 2024-29 was presented for the Executive’s consideration. The Môn Actif Strategic Plan provides a clear direction and identifies key priority areas and vision for creating healthy communities on Anglesey over the next five year period.

The Môn Actif Strategic Plan 2024-29 was presented by Councillor Neville Evans, Portfolio Member for Leisure, Tourism and Maritime the aim being to ensure the Council has an achievable, sustainable and fit for purpose plan to provide services to improve the health and wellbeing of residents and visitors to the Island. The plan recognises the need for continued investment in the Council’ s leisure facilities and that maximising opportunities for external funding will be key to that endeavour.  The strategic plan identifies five priority areas which link into the wider principles in the Council Plan 2023-28 and these relate to Participation, Health and Wellbeing, Workforce Development, Facilities Management, Financial Sustainability and Collaboration. Councillor Neville Evans referred to the variety of the leisure offering by Môn Actif and to the increased delivery of activities within the community where the Môn Actif brand is recognised and appreciated. Activity programmes run in the school holidays are especially popular and well attended. While challenges remain and are recognised, the strategic plan sets out the pathway for the Môn Actif service to remain sustainable and successful into the future.

The Head of Regulation and Economic Development advised that the strategic plan reaches beyond the leisure service alone and will yield wider social, economic and health benefits building on a collaborative way of working that has been successful in the past. Its impacts are expected to be felt over the course of the next few years and into the future. 

Councillor Douglas Fowlie, Chair of the Corporate Scrutiny Committee was invited to present Scrutiny’s perspective on the Môn Actif Strategic Plan from the committee’s 19 November 2024 meeting. Councillor Fowlie reported that the committee had discussed how the strategic plan enables the Council to realise the Council Plan 2023-28. Members had sought assurance regarding the data sources especially the local data in relation to childhood obesity and had asked questions about the sustainability of the Council’s leisure centres and the risks and challenges facing the Council and its partners in implementing the plan. The committee had wanted to know how the number of people using the Council’s leisure facilities could be increased and had noted that the current national KPI only measures the use of leisure centres and does not include users accessing Môn Actif services within the community. In recommending the Môn Actif Strategic Plan for the Executive’s approval, the Corporate Scrutiny Committee had agreed additional actions which included asking the Leader and Portfolio Member to consider requesting Welsh Government to review the scope of the national KPI to include people who access leisure services within the local community.

The Executive thanked Scrutiny for the feedback and for highlighting the limited scope of the  ...  view the full minutes text for item 13