Community Engagement Questionnaire - Festival of Activity and Wellbeing

The Leisure Services team in collaboration with the Putting Communities First Team created a paper survey which was promoted across three different events around the borough: Holland Park event day on July 23 and Chelsea Riverside event day on August 3 and 4. The purpose of the survey was to identify whether residents were active for transport and/or leisure purpose to better address the Leisure provision in the borough.

We received 19 responses to the survey. A summary of the results are:

• The majority of respondents (16) stated that they take part in exercise or physical activities to improve health
• Nine respondents stated that the main reason that might prevent them from taking part in exercise and physical activities is lack of time, followed by cost of session (eight respondents), unawareness of what’s available (five respondents) and health reasons and accessibility (both four respondents)
• When asked about what method of active travel the use, most respondents (13) answered walking while if they answered cycling we wanted to know if they used it for recreation and fitness and four people stated they do
• When asked if they wished to know more about the council’s cycling provision, the majority (10) said yes

The Leisure Team is planning to keep engaging with residents in order to acknowledge and take into consideration their feedback on the leisure provision in the borough, with the view to make improvements to the services where required.