After a lengthy tendering process, leisure centres in Yeovil, Wincanton and Chard will be managed and operated by not-for-profit Freedom Leisure for the next 15 years.

Freedom Leisure will be managing Goldenstones and Westlands Sports and Fitness Centre in Yeovil plus Wincanton Community Sports Centre and at the Boden Mill site in Chard.

Councillor Mike Best, South Somerset District Council’s portfolio for health and wellbeing, said: “Like the previous operator, Freedom Leisure are a not-for-profit leisure trust whereby all surplus income is reinvested in its facilities to ensure it stays in tip-top shape and ahead of the game in terms of the equipment and provisions it provides.”

“Their proposed community delivery programme is impressive and in close alignment to the council’s own corporate objectives. South Somerset District Council would like to take this opportunity to publicly thank LED Community Leisure for their continued support and delivery of leisure provisions in South Somerset during the successful partnership over the last 10 years.”

Freedom Leisure’s managing director Ivan Horsfall Turner said: “We look forward to working closely with the council and the existing leisure centre teams to improve and enhance the leisure service and facilities already being delivered in South Somerset.”

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