Are you able to help a leisure centre shape up?

Bridport Leisure Centre is looking for your thoughts on its services and facilities.

The facility, at Brewery Fields, is run by Bridport and West Dorset Sports Trust Ltd as a non-profit organisation.

People are being asked what they think of its services so that the centre can shape the future.

Chairman of trustees, Susanna Newall, said: “We have some really ambitious plans but we also have some challenges ahead in this time of tight budgets and financial pressures.

“So we need people’s help. We need them to tell us what they think of our services and to help us to dream of what Bridport’s Leisure Centre could be like in the future.”

Those who take part in the survey will be entered in to a draw and could win free membership worth £500 or a £50 swimwear voucher.

The centre, which is run as a charity, aims to offer local people services for fitness, sport, health and wellbeing.

Facilities include a swimming pool, teaching pool, fully-equipped gym, exercise studios and squash courts. Classes include circuits, HiiT (high-intensity interval training), yoga, pilates, exercise on prescription, gymnastics, squash, swimming, swimming lessons and trampolining.

Manager Nick Neale said: “We need to do the basics brilliantly and offer a first class experience to everyone that walks through our doors. We want to provide new and engaging activities, staying exciting and keeping bang up to date with what people want and need.

“As a charity we can invest all our proceeds back into the leisure centre, but we have to ensure we’re generating enough money to pay for investment in modernisation and innovation.

“So we need happy paying customers and inspiring, meaningful plans to attract funding.”

The survey, which takes just a few minutes to complete, is available at the leisure centre or online and everyone who fills it out is eligible to enter the draw.

Mrs Newall added: “We’d like to know what customers love about the leisure entre, the things we could improve. We’re looking for people’s ideas of the type of facilities Bridport needs which we could provide.

“We want people to help us plan a brilliant future for the leisure centre. We want people to be honest and to know what they really think and feel about their leisure centre.”

For more information on where to take the survey online, visit bridportnews.co.uk