North Northamptonshire Leisure - Your Leisure, Your Future survey

Overview

We want your views to help shape the future of leisure services across North Northamptonshire.

When North Northamptonshire Council was created, the leisure centres in different towns were still being run under old agreements. These agreements were different in places like Kettering, Thrapston, Rushden and Wellingborough. Corby’s leisure centres were run by the council itself.

As these contracts come to an end, we need to decide the best way to run all the leisure centres for the whole area in the future. 

We are reviewing how we deliver leisure and active communities services in the future. We want to understand what matters most to you.

We are exploring three possible levels of service for our leisure facilities and community activity programmes:

• Core Offer: A baseline level of service focusing on essential leisure provision such as access to gyms, pools, and basic programmes.
• Community Plus: This includes the Core Offer but also provides an enhanced service with more community‑focused programmes such as health and wellbeing classes, targeted activities for specific groups, and improved outreach into local communities.
• Transformational: This includes the above plus services designed to deliver major improvements in health, wellbeing, innovation and social impact — including expanded rehabilitation programmes, specialist equipment, co‑located services (for example, locating health and leisure services within one facility) and facility improvements.

At this stage we want to understand which services are important to you. This will help us to prioritise which services should be included within each of these levels and where we should prioritise investment.

Your feedback is important as it will help inform strategic decisions on the future management and delivery of leisure services. You can view more information on this work in the Future Leisure Management Options - Phase One report considered by the Place and Environment Scrutiny Committee on Wednesday 4 February 2026 .

Your feedback will help us understand what is most important to you and your family.

Have your say

Please tell us your views using the link below.

If you have any queries, comments or would like a copy of this questionnaire in another format (including paper, easy read or large print) you can contact us by email at: YourVoiceMatters@northnorthants.gov.uk

This survey closes at 23.59 on 10 March 2026

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