• How will your culture, tourism and sport services cope with the biggest changes to public spending and political accountability that your residents have ever seen?
• Is it business as usual, or time for radical reform that puts local people in the driving seat?
   

The 2011 LG Group/CLOA annual Culture, Tourism and Sport conference will allow you to access cutting edge strategic thinking, leading opinion formers and find out about new delivery models that could save you money. The conference will hear from leading politicians and thinkers, but also from those elected members and councils that are putting culture at the heart of their local vision, who are growing their local creative and tourism industries and using voluntary sports clubs to deliver the Big Society.

The brand new inclusive and open format of the conference will:

• Allow you to focus on the issues that you want to discuss;
• Learn from practical case studies about what is working elsewhere;
• Offer you and colleagues unrivalled networking opportunities;
• Give you a chance to input into this crucial debate;
• Present you with the opportunity to directly influence the direction of the Local Government Group's Culture, Tourism and Sport's policy.Speakers already confirmed include:

Key Speaker: Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP, Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport

Other Speakers:

• Loyd Grossman OBE FSA, Chairman, The churches Conservation Trust
• Cllr Chris White, Culture Tourism and Sport Programme Board, LG Group
• Marcus Kingwell, Chief Executive, The Institute for Sport, Parks and Leisure
• Stuart Gill, Chairman, Yorkshire Dales and Harrogate Tourism Advisory Group 
• Peter Mann, Chair, The Institute for Sport, Parks and Leisure (ISPAL)
• Cllr Kevin Douglas, Chief Executive of Eden District Council
• Lord Mayor Cllr Susan Galloway, City of York
• Cllr Mick Henry, Leader, Gateshead Council
• Ken Maddock, Leader, Somerset County Council
• Virginia Tandy OBE, Director of Culture, Manchester City Council
• Robin Simpson, Chief Executive, Voluntary Arts England
• Iain Varah, Chair, National Culture Forum 
• Phil Coppard, Chief Executive, Barnsley
• Cllr Simon Henig, Leader, Durham County Council, and Vice-Chair, Culture Tourism and Sport Programme Board, LG Group
• Peter Cardy, Chief Executive, Acquaterra Leisure
• Phil Collins, Chief Executive, Hertsmere Leisure Trust
• Cllr Stephen Castle, Cabinet Member for Economic Development, Regeneration and the 2012 Games, Essex County Council and Deputy-Chair,Culture Tourism and Sport Programme Board, LG Group

Full details and how to book at:
http://www.lga.gov.uk/lga/events/display-event.do?id=13814712

Cost: (ex VAT) £ 450.00   LGA member organisation rate: £ 360.00

For any other queries please contact Rebecca Rossini on 0207 664 3104 or e-mail rebecca.rossini@local.gov.uk.