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The purpose of this report is to set out the Council’s Community Recovery Plan in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Council’s Community Recovery Plan forms part of a Recovery Framework which will be presented to the Executive on 3 August 2020.

Covid-19 has had a significant impact on every aspect of life and society in our Borough, and it has led to logistical challenges, created financial difficulties and prompted community-wide concerns around health and well-being.

This report focuses on the impact of the pandemic on leisure and community facilities and organisations within the Borough and suggests actions that the Council might take to help the sector to recover over the coming months.

Although we are now entering the Recovery Phase, continuing restrictions around social distancing, public fear around using community spaces and the economic downturn that the virus has triggered mean that even once the doors to community facilities reopen, they will face many further challenges.