Pricing & demandLeicester Racecourse annual badge
The racecourse’s annual badge page says the badge covers about 26 to 29 meetings a year, with free entry to all Leicester meetings, over 100 reciprocal meetings and 65 cricket days, and 209 days of racing and cricket in the package. It gives 10% off advance restaurant bookings and lists a two-course Owners dining menu at £33.00. There are 25 Leicester dates in 2026. No badge price is listed, and renewals and new memberships stop after 31 December 2026. Wikipedia places the course on the Oadby and Stoneygate border.
Why might a racecourse bundle racing with cricket days and reciprocal meetings, and what would you need to know to judge whether it works? Practise this in AO2 Application.
Interpreting numbersUniversity of Leicester Botanic Garden
Visit Leicester says the garden and the Attenborough Arboretum are open all year, seven days a week, 10am to 4pm, or 5pm in summer time, and are free to enter. The Botanic Garden covers 16 acres and was founded in 1921 and completed in 1925. The five-acre arboretum opened in 1997 in Knighton. No running costs or visitor numbers were given.
Why might a university run a free garden, and what would you want to check? Step by step in AO3 Analysis.
Strategy & stakeholdersParklands Leisure Centre
The council’s page for the Washbrook Lane centre says Everyone Active runs it and describes a state of the art gym. It lists no other facilities, opening hours or prices, and it doesn’t explain the arrangement between the council and the operator.
Should a council hand a leisure centre to a private operator, and who gains or loses? A real judgement for AO4 Evaluation.
Oadby’s economy in the classroom
Wikipedia’s Oadby page gives 23,849 residents in 2011, though it isn’t clear whether that is the parish or the built-up area. A racecourse’s annual badge, a free university garden and an outsourced leisure centre give students real contexts for bundling, funding and evaluating outsourcing. We tie these themes to topics on the specification.
Sources: Wikipedia, Oadby; Leicester Racecourse, annual badge page; Visit Leicester, Leicester Botanic Garden and Attenborough Arboretum listing; Oadby and Wigston Borough Council, Parklands Leisure Centre page. The racecourse page lists no badge price, and the council page lists no prices or hours.
