Why do we need a Sustainable Development Strategy?

South Downs Leisure is an Award Winning Sustainable Trust. We have achieved a great deal over the last five years, and it is important not to lose sight of the great work that staff and partners have contributed to along the way. We have put together this strategy with its own Vision, Mission and Values to help us identify the issues that matter.

Award Winning Sustainable Trust

South Downs Leisure is absolutely delighted to have won The Sustainable Business Award 2022 at the Adur and Worthing Business Awards.

3 pillars of sustainability at South Downs Leisure

Our Vision, Mission & Values

We are working hard to implement our values, by reaching these, we will achieve the triple bottom line for a Sustainable South Downs Leisure.

Our sustainability Development Strategy 2022 - 2026

VISION

Make our facilities carbon net zero by 2040 including our pools.
Make our dry side facilities carbon net zero by 2030.

MISSION

Put sustainability at the forefront of key decisions made across South Downs Leisure.

VALUES

Training staff
Educating customers on our journey
Avoid Greenwashing
Minimize fossil fuel sources where possible
Understand supply chain
3 P’s in all decisions
Health and Wellbeing of staff
Supporting the wider community

WHAT HAVE WE DONE SO FAR

Fitted over 300 Solar panels with BEC
Purchased a new Pool Cover
Recently spent over £60,000 on LED’s across 7 sites
Eco cups in our café to reduce disposables
All disposables are plant based
Introduced Source of the Earth Crisps – plant based and paper packaging
Tap sensors

Underfloor heating
Variable Speed Drives (VSD)
Ultra Violet (UV)
Combined Heat and Power (CHP)
Heat blankets on pipes and valves
Reduced our temperatures of pools
Reviewing our backwashing
Grey water from pool to flush toilets
Food waste collected & recycled monthly, by Adur & Worthing Councils

Solar panels at splashpoint leisure centre

Installed by Brighton Energy Corporation (BEC).

Over 300 panels that supply 98,000 kWh of electricity per year reducing our carbon footprint by 27 tonnes of CO2e.

Innovative thinking

Electrical Bikes
We have purchased three electrical bikes to minimize car travel between sites with a KPI in the first year for each bike to save over 400 miles of car journeys.

Teams Meetings
We have reviewed all meetings to minimise travel between sites.

Paperless at Head Office
We are introducing capture for invoices, docusign for contracts and launching electronic timesheets in Sept 2022.