Closure of Alsager Civic during Covid-19 pandemic results in £160,000 income loss

By Tom Avery

4th Mar 2021 | Local News

Due to its closure during the Covid-19 pandemic the Alsager Civic is expected to have made a loss in the region of £160,000.

The extent of the financial impact was announced to councillors during a recent Alsager Town Council meeting of the Civic and Services Committee.

A report circulated to councillors on the committee said: "Alsager Civic's operations have been impacted by COVID since mid-March 2020. The manager believes that activities will not return to pre-COVID levels until Spring 2022, as a result of continuing restrictions, reduced customer confidence and disposable income.

"Alsager Civic operating income is currently forecast to be around £204,000 adverse to the budget. Income has also been incorporated into the forecast for monies received from COVID-related Government grants schemes."

According to the report, Alsager Civic was expected to be "significantly adversely impacted financially" due to the pandemic in financial year 2020-21 and general reserves would be utilised to finance operations in the year.

The overall impact of reduced income, grant income, cost savings and additional costs was around £45,000 adverse to the budget set which meant that general reserves of that value would be required to finance operations in the year.

Speaking to Nub News after the meeting, town clerk Nicola Clarke said: "This is to the end of January so we have a couple more months to go where savings can be made so I would say, forecast at the end of January, to be losing somewhere in the region of £160,000."

The impact the pandemic has had on the facility was highlighted in the numbers from the last financial year (2019-20), when there was a deficit of £27,217 while the year before (2018/19) the deficit was £11,012.

The Civic is currently being used twice a week, on Mondays and Thursdays, as a location for Covid-19 lateral flow tests run by a team of volunteers from the Alsager Community Support Centre.

     

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