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Tweed Sport and Active Recreation Survey

Being physically active is vital for our health and wellbeing.

The Tweed Shire Council look forward to your input in this survey to help us allocate resources effectively to support active lifestyles.
The outcomes of this survey will inform the development of the draft Tweed Shire Council Sport and Active Recreation Strategy 2023-2033 which we have partnered with Better Cities Group to develop.
All answers are anonymous.
Stage 1 - Sport and Active Recreation
1.Is being physically active a priority in your life?
2.Estimate how often you are physically active across all planned/organised activities in a week?
3.How often do you do physical activity through unstructured sport or recreation (e.g walking, swimming, hiking, running etc)?
4.How often do you do community based physical activity, sport and recreation activities through a club (e.g. parkrun, soccer, bowls, netball etc)?
5.How often do you participate in physical activity classes through businesses that you pay fees to (e.g. gym, yoga classes, tennis lessons etc)?
6.What organised sports do you participate in?
7.Are there any sporting competitions or recreational activities that you would like to do but cannot do in the Tweed Shire?
8.Do you travel outside the Tweed Shire to participate in sport and physical activity on a regular basis?
9.Have you stopped participating in organised sport at any stage? If no go to Q. 11.
10.I mainly dropped out from this sport or physical activity because of the following reason(s):
11.What are the TOP 3 reasons listed that stop you from being as active and healthy as you would like?
12.What TOP 3 facilities or services would encourage you to participate in more physical activity?
13.Select the TOP 3 ways you stay informed about local sports and physical activity opportunities?
14.Do you have ideas or suggestions that would enable more Tweed residents to be more active more often?
Stage 2 - Demographics
The following questions will allow us to compare anonymous responses to ensure our Strategy is as inclusive as possible.
15.Please tick all those that apply to you and your involvement in sport and active recreation.
16.What best describes your gender?
17.Please indicate your age bracket
18.Do you identify as a person with a disability or act as a carer for a person with a disability?
19.Do you think there are there enough opportunities for people with a disability to participate in sport and active recreation within the Tweed Shire?
20.What town/suburb do you live in?
21.What town/suburb do you live in?
22.Thinking about your current cost of living, please tell us which statement is the closest to your current situation:
Thank you for participating in this survey. Your feedback will be reviewed and will inform the development of the draft Tweed Shire Council Sport and Active Recreation Strategy 2023-2033, which will be available for the community to review on Your Say Tweed in June this year.