A school trust has hit back over claims from a Nottinghamshire County Councillor of using Covid as an excuse to deny members of the public access to school sports facilities. The Two Counties Trust manages nine academy schools including Ashfield School, in Kirkby-in-Ashfield, and Selston High School, along with the Manor Park Sports Complex in Mansfield.
Ashfield District Council handed over the schools' sports facilities to the trust in 2018, including a 3G floodlit pitch, gym, indoor sports hall and external football pitches. At the start of the pandemic in 2020, all facilities, including the schools, closed.
While the schools have since reopened, the trust stopped letting members of the public hire pitch facilities last year, which caused problems for some sports clubs in the area.
