A petition to 'Save Catmose Sports Centre' has reached nearly 2000 signatures as of 8:30am Tuesday 31 March 2023.

On 26 January 2023, Rutland County Council announced that "sadly, the Council has been unable to find an operator who can run Catmose Sports Centre at zero cost", meaning that the centre will close to the public on 31 March 2023. 

Catmose Sports currently has around 900 members, as well as casual users and members of local sports clubs.

This announcement caused uproar among the local community, who pointed out that Oakham, the County Town of Rutland, soon will not have a public leisure centre, pool, cinema, banks and other amenities which attract tourists and new residents alike.

Read more about the local response to this closure here.

Rutland County Council have since announced that they will be hosting a meeting to discuss this closure on Monday 6 February 2023 at the Council Chambers, Catmos Street, from 7pm.

Read more here.

In the meantime, passionate Oakham and Rutland residents are coming together to support the 'Save Catmose Sports Centre' petition and compile concerns to take to the Council meeting on Monday.

You can sign the petition here.

A Facebook page, Save Catmose Sports Centre, has also been set up and has nearly 1000 members.

The collective have said that they are a "group for people to come together to organise to save Catmose Sports Centre."

They added: "Catmose is a wonderful facilities that is used by a large cross section of society - from young children to older adults. It has outstanding staff who make a real difference to the lives of residents in Oakham and Rutland. We will use this group to organise a collective response to the closure and make our (many) voices heard."

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