Piddlehinton Gym

Piddlehinton Gym Providing affordable indoor sporting and recreational facilities for the community

Piddlehinton Gym has the following facilities
- a large 32m x 12m sports hall (108ft x 40ft) with two badminton courts, full length bowls/cricket mat
- 7m x 4m meeting / club room (24ft x 13ft), with table tennis table
- small gym with rowing machine, running machine, cycling machine and multigym
- kitchenette
- male and female (also accessible) toilets and changing room
- large carpark in the evening and weekends ~30 spaces

24/12/2025

Merry Christmas to everyone involved with Piddlehinton Gym and thanks particularly for the volunteers and directors who ensure this valuable rural sports facility has a sustainable long-term future

From:- Paul Hayes, Chairman. October 2025I'm pleased to report that we've just completed our most successful year ever; ...
01/10/2025

From:- Paul Hayes, Chairman. October 2025

I'm pleased to report that we've just completed our most successful year ever; income is up 21%, costs contained under 3% and surplus increased by 40% over the prior year.

We have increased the number of organisations that use the Gym facilities to 14, and now have Pickleball, Indoor cricket, 5-a-side, Netball, PE (special needs school) added to Badminton (now 5 clubs), Remote control car racing (extended booking), Junior Tennis and Archery (2 clubs) that used the Gym prior to the new roof refurbishment.

We really are going from strength to strength and I thank Dorset council & our other commercial sponsors for their help to make the reroofing in 2023 happen. This has enabled us to get into this position of long-term sustainability (81 years remaining on the 99 year lease). It is great to have a rural sports facility that does not need any council funding support to operate.

Volunteers continue to play an important part in the management, maintenance and improvement of the Gym. Hundreds of (free) hours are provided each year and our major clean and refurbishment event in July had more than 25 participants. See attached a few pictures of the result.
Using the volunteers and surplus generated last year has enabled us to complete a major clean & improvement over the summer.
There is still plenty to be done but it is great that ongoing improvements are the norm.

I am also pleased to announce that Paul Gamble from Friday’s Remote Control Car racing and Sally Childs-Slade from Thursday Netball have agreed to join the management team of the Piddlehinton Gym Charity. Paul Gamble will take leadership for maintenance and improvements and Sally for Health and Safety. See attached the revised organisation chart

We still have capacity for more clubs, especially day-times but also Thursday evening and Saturday afternoons. The more clubs we get the more sustainable Piddlehinton Gym will be.

An opening has arisen for Thursday evening bookings, please contact us if you'd like to start or relocate a club to our ...
28/07/2025

An opening has arisen for Thursday evening bookings, please contact us if you'd like to start or relocate a club to our ever improving facilities. Large hall with two Badminton / Pickleball courts, Netball court, 5-a-side and smaller exercise room plus club/table tennis room and Kitchen. Suitable for Archery, Zumba etc. Plenty of parking.

Piddlehinton Gym has just completed the 2025 community club clean and refurbishment. 25 volunteers from 8 community club...
06/07/2025

Piddlehinton Gym has just completed the 2025 community club clean and refurbishment. 25 volunteers from 8 community club organisations have just completed the 2025 clean and refurbishment programme.

This activity is a key aspect to make the Gym sustainable (we get no external funding so rely on clubs to keep the facility running) and so thanks to all that were involved.

Activities including painting, cleaning, rubbish removal, a new cleaning storage cupboard door, Ivy removal, drain clearance, poster er****on and improvements to the front door access were followed by fish and chips (provided at a discount by San Telmo). Thanks to all involved, it realty shows the power of our community clubs.

17/12/2024

Wishing all club members and users of Piddlehinton Gym a really good Christmas and a healthy, sports-filled, 2025

07/11/2024

I'm pleased to welcome the Gentlemens Sporting Club to Piddlehinton Gym playing pickleball from 18:30pm-20:30pm each Wednesday

New (yellow) Netball court markings at Piddlehinton Gym, Walking netball each Thursday from 10am.
03/11/2024

New (yellow) Netball court markings at Piddlehinton Gym, Walking netball each Thursday from 10am.

Piddlehinton Gym Winter schedule, the busiest since the Gym charity was formed. Plenty of opportunities to get fit!
25/10/2024

Piddlehinton Gym Winter schedule, the busiest since the Gym charity was formed. Plenty of opportunities to get fit!

First pickleball booking at Piddlehinton Gym. Great feedback on facilities
29/08/2024

First pickleball booking at Piddlehinton Gym. Great feedback on facilities

Significant clean and refurbishment completed by large volunteer team.On Saturday 6th July some 22 volunteers from the P...
07/07/2024

Significant clean and refurbishment completed by large volunteer team.

On Saturday 6th July some 22 volunteers from the Piddlehinton Gym community clubs completed a major clear and refurbishment activity. Highlights include a master finish sports surface on the spring wood floor, top to bottom cleaning, removal of a skips worth of rubbish, new storage cupboards, a new front door awning and new mechanical lock fixed for club use, additional solar lights and a new picketball sign to promote the new facilities added in early 2024. A massive thanks to all volunteers involved, many of whom enjoyed the complimentary drinks and fish and chips for lunch. It really shows the power of the Piddlehinton Gym community.

27/05/2024

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Walking Netball now established at Piddlehinton GymThe Dorchester Hub WI Walking Netball Group is a new walking netball ...
27/05/2024

Walking Netball now established at Piddlehinton Gym
The Dorchester Hub WI Walking Netball Group is a new walking netball group that has been approved by England Netball (EN) and the National Federation Women’s Institute (NFWI) Walking Netball. The group is now inviting new members to join its newly formed friendly group. The group is led by Sally who is a trained WI Walking Netball Host and EN Community Coach. The group hold their sessions at the Piddlehinton Community Gym on Thursday mornings at 10.00am – 11.00am.
The cost per session is £4.00 and can be paid by BACS or cash on the day.
Walking Netball is a slower version of the traditional game allowing extra time and an extra step to throw the ball. The game is suitable for all ages, all fitness abilities. Currently sessions consist of a warmup, fun drills of throwing and shooting and a
modified game (due to no court markings) with a cool down to finish. Many ladies have not played netball since being at school meaning that it may be more than 40 years plus since holding a netball! There are benefits of playing
Walking Netball which include health and mental health wellbeing, but importantly that it is fun, is very social and gets you moving!

For further information please contact Sally Childs-Slade on
[email protected]

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Piddlehinton Gym, Piddlehinton
Dorchester
DT27UA

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