Fife Sports and Leisure Trust takes an organisation-wide approach to inclusion, supporting people to participate.
Across 14 accessible venues, our model connects 4 elements: affordable access, inclusive programmes, practical adjustments and community partnerships for all ages, abilities, and circumstances.
Affordable access includes our redesigned membership model, launched in January 2024.
Club offers unlimited access membership for only £32 per month across 14 venues, including pools, gyms, health suites, fitness classes and Health and Wellbeing programmes.
Lite offers lower-cost local access, while Club 18-24, Student, Corporate Wellness and Concessionary memberships, plus Mini, Junior and Teen add-ons, accommodate different life stages and financial circumstances starting from as low as £24 per month.
In 2025/26, over 4,000 new members joined through Concessionary options, with Overall membership growing from 11,500 in 2024 to nearly 25,000 in 2026.
Inclusive programmes run year-round. In 2025/26, 8,600 learners took part in Learn to Swim, making us one of the largest providers of Scottish Swimming’s National Framework.
Participation included 1,101 in junior gymnastics, 1,569 in junior coaching and 223 in football camps, while holiday programmes generated 36,657 attendances.
Partnerships and practical adjustments turn access into participation. Alongside Fife Council, Disability Sport Fife, national governing bodies and community groups, staff work with individuals and families to provide funded places, adapted communication and inclusive coaching.
This joined-up approach matters because 24.1% of people in Scotland have a long-term limiting condition or disability. Cost, confidence, communication, and geography can prevent participation. Addressing them together creates practical routes into movement and community.
Fife Sports and Leisure Trust’s inclusion model advances the Plan for Fife 2024–27 priorities of tackling poverty, preventing crisis, and widening access to community opportunities. It supports sportscotland’s Sport for Life commitment to make inclusion fundamental to physical activity. Rather than treating affordability, disability access, and community engagement as separate issues, we connect flexible membership, inclusive programmes, practical adjustments, and trusted partnerships.
Customer Highlights put real people at the centre of our marketing, sharing stories of overcoming barriers. Representing different ages, abilities, and circumstances helps audiences see themselves taking part. This person-first approach continues in venues, staff listen, agree support and use participant and family feedback to improve programmes and information.
Affordable access is strengthened through targeted memberships and partner-funded places. Since tracking began, 8,987 fully funded memberships have been provided. Fife Council, health and social care services and youth-support partners including Clued Up and Nexturn identify people who could benefit and create trusted routes into activity. For example, neurodivergent brothers supported through Clued Up received annual memberships during bereavement, serious family illness, and financial pressure. Their local pool became a safe, familiar space, and the younger brother returned to full-time education.
A teenager supported through Nexturn progressed from rarely leaving home to using the gym independently around three times each week.
Partnerships also shape inclusive delivery. Learn to Swim follows Scottish Swimming’s National Framework and welcomes learners with additional support needs wherever appropriate adjustments can be made.
Staff work with families to understand communication needs, offer early access, use visual storyboards and adapt instruction. Disability Sport Fife, based at Michael Woods Sports and Leisure Centre, connects disabled people with sporting opportunities, while work with Scottish Swimming and Scottish Gymnastics ensures adaptations sit within recognised pathways and do not limit progression.
Our wider programme meets people throughout life. People managing long-term conditions can access 119 referral-appropriate classes each week across 10 venues, including 7 water- based options.
We delivered 97 physical activity sessions in older people’s housing and 160 social cafés in 2025/26, bringing movement and connection closer to home. Funded initiatives like Quid-a-Kid generated 47,591 attendances, up 17.3%, widening affordable family access during school holidays.
All 14 venues are accessible and 12 were upgraded in the past decade.
2025/26 customer outcomes were strong:
Inclusion is also reflected in our workforce. Disability Confident Employer Level 2 supports accessible recruitment and reasonable adjustments.
Our Armed Forces network and Defence Employer Recognition Scheme Gold support veterans, reservists and military families. As Headline Sponsor of Fife Pride 2026, we stand alongside Fife’s LGBTQ+ community and reinforce that everyone should feel welcome in our venues and workplace.
This sustainable model is embedded across operations, not dependent on one project. Income is reinvested in services, while trained staff, national frameworks, accessible venues, customer feedback and long-term partnerships make inclusive practice consistent across Fife.
Fife Sports and Leisure Trust will deliver inclusion through its Business Plan 2025-28.
“Promote inclusion and community building” is a strategic objective, supporting our ambition to become an exemplar for inclusivity and accessibility. This commits us to accessible facilities, inclusive programmes, partnerships, and representative engagement.
We will continue training staff, sharing adaptations and encouraging inclusive conversations in every venue.
Teams will ask what individuals need, make reasonable adjustments and prioritise access when planning programmes and customer journeys.
Investment in programmes and facilities will expand inclusive opportunities.
In 2026, Duloch Leisure Centre will open a Health and Wellbeing Hub, giving Active Options a home and increasing capacity for people with long-term health conditions.
Our relaunched Talented Athlete Programme provides free or discounted venue access to help athletes progress. Many participants have joined through Disability Sport Fife, demonstrating how partnerships connect disabled athletes with facilities, training and recognised sporting pathways. We will build on this model with Disability Sport Fife, national governing bodies and community partners.
Building on our recent investment in content creation, we will make representation an increasingly consistent feature of our marketing.
Expanding Customer Highlights will share experiences across ages, abilities and backgrounds, challenge assumptions and help people see themselves taking part. Representation will shape campaigns, photography, video and programme promotion rather than being a one-off initiative.
Together, these actions will make inclusion visible, practical and embedded throughout leisure in Fife.
