Tourism, Communities, Culture & Leisure Committee Update

13 March 2025

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The committee met at Wallasey Town Hall on Wednesday 5 March 2025.

Wirral Council's Tourism, Communities, Culture & Leisure Committee took place on Thursday, 6th March at Wallasey town hall.

The full agenda, reports pack and webcast of the meeting can be found on the Wirral Council website.

Items of the agenda included: -

Floral Future Operational Model

Following Committee’s decision on 19th September 2024 to progress to the Outline Business Case (OBC) development stage this report presents the suggested next steps relating to the Floral Pavilion Theatre & Conference Centre in New Brighton.

The report recommended Director of Neighbourhood Services to develop a Full Business Case to explore the integration of an Arts and Cultural Hub into the Floral Pavilion Theatre and Conference Centre.

Councillors were also asked to authorise the Director of Neighbourhood Services to use the Floral Pavilion to extend the neighbourhood-based community services outreach offer on a day to day basis. This will include but not be limited to Public Health services, Adult Social Care Services, Children’s services or other partner organisations.

You can view the full report for this agenda item here, and a webcast of discussion in the meeting is available here.

Air Quality Annual Status Report and Air Quality Strategy Update

Councillors on the committee were provided with an update on the Air Quality Status Report (ASR) for 2024, which also includes:

an update on monitoring results for air pollution during 2023.
actions taken during 2023 to improve air quality,
an update on Wirral’s Air Quality Strategy 2024-28
the implementation plan (AQIP) for the Strategy.

Members of the committee were advised that following this initial update report, updates will be provided to the Committee in November, annually.

You can view the full report for this agenda item here, and a webcast of discussion in the meeting is available here.

Wirral Council For Community Voluntary And Faith Sector Service

The Community Voluntary and Faith Sector Service (Wirral CVS) is commissioned by Public Health to deliver a programme of activity to support collaboration between partners and the CVF sector. This report provides an update on this to the Tourism, Communities, Culture and Leisure Committee.

The report said, in Summary Wirral CVS has:

Reached 1200 VCFSE and Public Sector Colleagues weekly an 8-% increase on engagement last year from – over 1000 of those are VCFSE
Increased its membership to 104 full members from 38 last year o Delivered over 100 events with attendances in excess of 2500
Delivered over £400,000 in grants to 46 organisations
Developed volunteering portal which has over 600 registered volunteers and 116 provider organisations
Provided capacity building and support to 124 individual organisations equating to 340 face to face hours – an average of 2.8 hours of support per organisation

You can view the full report for this agenda item here, and a webcast of discussion in the meeting is available here.

Member Champion for Heritage Update Report

This sets out recent events and updates from the Member Champion for Heritage to the Tourism, Communities, Culture and Leisure Committee. The Heritage Champion Report to Tourism, Communities, Culture and Leisure can be read here.