Project Aims
Introduction
The key aims of the project, which align with the Council’s priorities, are:
Providing access to sport, culture and employment opportunities.
Enhance West Cumbria’s tourism reputation: building on and diversifying the tourism and destination offer by adding an additional facilities and programming.
Address the health challenges and encouraging healthier and more active lifestyles and discouraging smoking, excessive alcoholism, and poor diets. The community facility should address inactivity which is a major cause of death and disability in the region.
Stimulate town centre footfall and give people a reason to visit the Workington Town Centre and Lower Derwent Valley with festivals, events, cultural activities, sport, and other programming introduced at the Sports Village.
Enhance the sustainability of the sporting clubs as key cultural and community assets: through investing in the Sports Village facilities, resources, and conditions for the clubs to create the conditions for new and enhanced revenue through community facilities.
