| Daryll Neita, GLL Athlete who secured a bronze in the women’s 100m and a silver in the 4x4 100m relay at the Birmingham Commonwealth Games |
![]()
|
About us
We’re sport, leisure and culture’s leading staff-owned charitable social enterprise founded on our purpose and values to provide a different, fairer and better way of doing business. Our purpose is to improve the physical, mental and social wellbeing of local communities.
As the UK’s leading provider of both leisure centres and libraries we operate over 360 locations, all helping to make a real difference to local communities and local people.
Every penny that GLL makes is reinvested back into the business to support our social purpose.
Product range and services
Operating across leisure, health, libraries and sports development, GLL works with partners, stakeholders and customers to build active and sustainable communities and provide accessible facilities for all.
We believe in offering value-for-money and creating truly inclusive, affordable and accessible spaces. Our services are wide-ranging and offer current and potential partners a range of solutions and options for modernised service delivery, value for money and tangible added value.
USPs
The largest charitable leisure social enterprise in the UK, GLL is the UK’s largest provider of public pools school swimming lessons, tennis courts, and public libraries.
We operate the UK’s largest independent athlete support programme – The GLL Sport Foundation – which has helped over 26,000 athletes on their sporting journey since 2008, resulting in dozens of medals at international competition including Commonwealth Games, Olympics and Paralympics.
We are listed as a recommended provider of gyms by the leading consumer magazine ‘Which?’. Additionally, our recent Gold Investor in People Award and accreditation by the Living Wage Foundation recognise our positive commitment to fair treatment of our employees.
We are rooted in local communities, at the heart of health and wellbeing, producing impressive amounts of social value – across a range of measures, from physical and mental health, to subjective wellbeing and individual and community development.
|
|
![]() |
