Dr Steve Mann has nearly 10 years’ experience in the leisure management sector, leading sector wide research into getting the inactive, active. Steve joined social enterprise Places Leisure last year to help meet their social objective of ‘creating active places and healthy people’.As Head of Healthy Communities Steve ensures that the 128 leisure facilities that Places Leisure manage on behalf of its local authority partners are inspirational and accessible places, that engage with all community members and encourage them to enjoy a lifelong love of physical activity.