CIP delivers a wide range of services including the following:

• Strategic Planning
  • Cultural strategy
  • Libraries Plan
  • Parks Development Plan
• Library Networks, Bibliographic Services, School Library Services, Mobile Library Service
• Leisure Centres, Swimming Pools, Gyms and Sports Facilities
• Culture, Arts and Events, Theatre and Community Halls
• Ecology Services, Rare Breeds Centre, Allotments and Landscape Services
• E-Government and People's Network
• Heritage, Museums and Historic Houses
• The Management of Country Parks and Green Spaces
• Tourism Services and Tourist Information Centres
• Community Recreation and Sports Development
• Play Schemes.

When CIP was set up in April 1998, the aspirations and principles as stated in the report to the Special Joint Committee Meeting of the Leisure Services and Policy and Resources Committee on 24th March 1998 were:

1. To safeguard important, popular and well used community services and jobs
2. To increase the opportunities for attracting external funding and innovative public/private/voluntary partnership working
3. To generate significant non domestic rate (NNDR) and VAT savings, although this was not the dominant motive for the transfer
4. For the Council to work in close partnership with the organisation.
5. To ensure budget stability at the outset to ease the transition
6. That the relationship should be one of  'embedded partnership' to provide and develop coherent leisure provision as well as fulfilling a corporate role in the development of services for the Council.

Based on this, CIP delivers continuously improving services that contribute to increasing social inclusion by working in partnership with local communities, public and non-governmental organisations.

Please contact CIP for an informal discussion about your requirements.