Few words from Stuart

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YOUR STAFF NEWSLETTER

2Stuart Lockwood

Chief Executive

It’s a pleasure to update you in our second newsletter.

There’s still so much going on and this edition has some great pictures from what was another excellent awards night. A key development in play at the moment is the finalisation of our new strategy & brand refresh. The Board, along with current and former staff reps met on a Monday evening in September to finalise the Company Vision and Values, following the away days with colleagues and Board members back in 2019. After much discussion and debate we settled on a new Vision statement: “Inspiring people to lead active, healthy lives.” The discussion included the need to future proof our purpose to incorporate potential areas of work that add to the

one-dimensional aim of encouraging physical activity. We need to be able to help people improve their diet, sleep, mental health and emotional wellbeing going forward. Defining a new vision is just the start – this will ultimately link to our priorities, programmes and performance management going forward and these will become clearer as we work this all through in the coming weeks and months.

The new agreed Values that came through with unanimous agreement are: • Customer-focussed • Always improving • Make a positive difference • Enjoy what we do • One team

These will be developed further going forward, and another significant change is the agreement to formally shift our company name and brand exclusively to “Oldham Active”. This will take some time to wash through, but you will notice the identity shift over the coming months.

“Inspiring people to lead active, healthy lives”