BPL Newsletter – Winter 2026

Welcome to your first BPL newsletter of 2026!

It’s been an exciting couple of months as we rounded off 2025 in style with a top fitness industry award win and a successful swimming event at Your Space Worksop Leisure Centre.

We’ve also started the new year with a bang, launching some amazing new facilities at Dorothy Hyman Sports Centre and showing our support for local charities close to our hearts.

Now that’s something to feel good about – read on to find out more!

Good for Employees

A warm welcome to all our new starters who have recently completed their inductions. These include Andy and Georgia, who have joined the team at Dearneside, a new team at Adventure Reef and Leionie and Harrison who will be working at the Metrodome.

We have an exciting opportunity to join our team!

We’re looking for an operations manager at Your Space Mansfield.

This isn’t just any leadership role – it’s your chance to help people feel good every day by bringing our spaces to life.

You’ll lead a fun and friendly team, make a real impact on our local communities and work for an organisation that is good for employees.

Find out more here: https://bpl.org.uk/work-for-us/

Good for Customers

There’s so much fun on offer at Adventure Reef, not just at half term, but all year round!

Our underwater themed soft play area for children aged 0-12 years old offers safe and stimulating play and an adventure zone packed full of exciting challenges. We also have an interactive sports court, games room and on-site cafe suitable for all ages.

Book your slot at Adventure Reef – Metrodome Lesiure Complex

We’re hosting a colourful evening of Sip and Paint with Les Cadeaux at Barnsley Metrodome on Saturday 14 March.

Perfect for a Mother’s Day treat or a creative night out with friends, we’re providing everything you need to create your own masterpiece.

Find out more and book at Unforgettable Events – Book Now – Metrodome Lesiure Complex

Great Delivery

A successful event, which attracted over 300 swimmers and hundreds of spectators over a weekend of competition, rounded off a great year for hosts Bassetlaw Swim Squad; the performance squad system of the BPL Your Swim Academy.

We finished 2025 in style by picking up an award at the National Fitness Awards in Leicester.

We were delighted to receive the trophy for Best Membership Campaign, in recognition of our summer ‘win a holiday’ campaign, which saw us give away dream holidays to four lucky Your Space members

Our ongoing commitment to sustainability has been strengthened with the completion of two energy saving projects at Barnsley Metrodome.

Thanks to a grant worth £500,000 from Barnsley Council via Sport England, solar panels have been installed across three major roof areas, reducing the building’s reliance on grid electricity.

Upgrades have also been made to the facility’s AHU system and Building Management System.

Good for All

The launch of our fantastic new facilities at Dorothy Hyman Sports Centre was celebrated at an event with partners Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council, the Football Foundation and Sheffield and Hallamshire County FA.

Thanks to funding from the Football Foundation and Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council – plus investment from BPL – visitors can now enjoy an additional all weather pitch,  new changing facilities and Dugout cafe.

The fitness offering has also been significantly expanded with a full gym refurbishment, new Technogym equipment and two new studio spaces, including an indoor cycling studio.

A massive thank you to everyone involved in creating such a great space for our local community.

A special shout out to everyone who took part in Dorothy Hyman Sports Centre’s 12-hour charity Bikeathon and themed aerobics class.

Participants raised over £2,100 for Weston Park Cancer Charity in an unforgettable day filled with energy, enthusiasm and community spirit.

We were proud to support Weston Park Cancer Charity by turning the pool at Barnsley Metrodome purple on World Cancer Day. The purple theme also extended across our sites to raise donations and awareness for the incredible work the charity does for patients and their families.

Fantastic news for our water wellbeing programme!

Bassetlaw District Council has funded new Good Boost tablets for all our Your Space sites in Bassetlaw, increasing the number of participants from 12 to 20 for Retford and Worksop, as well as an extra 12 tablets for our Bircotes site.

As always, our staff and members showed their generosity over Christmas, with fundraising events taking place across our sites.

They got involved in everything from a toy drive for Bluebell Wood Hospice to raffles and chocolate bouquets for Weston Park Cancer Charity.

The total raised for the chocolate bouquets was a fantastic £1,513.72.

A big thank you to everyone who donated.

We were proud to support the recent Women’s Health Matters event in Barnsley.

During the event, we signposted women to our Healthy Mums Programme and funded pathways to the Work Health Referral Programme.

It was great to stand alongside the Cancer Champions and Age UK to deliver for our local communities through Barnsley Libraries.