A Lockleaze community centre catering for 150 visitors a week has been shortlisted for the Post's Building Healthy Communities competition.

The Cameron Centre – one of 10 finalists – hopes to improve access for disabled visitors.

Prize money would pay for two new ramps at fire exits to help wheelchair users leave the building safely.

The centre offers activities for people of all ages and abilities, including up to 10 wheelchair users a week.

Activities include bowls clubs, exercise classes, arts and crafts clubs and church groups.

Manager Emily Moreton, 27, who lives in Easton, has worked at the centre since August.

She said: "We have between six and 10 disabled people using the centre every week and when we have a community event running we can have quite a few more because there's sheltered housing for people with disabilities down the road.

"Because we are a charity, we don't have a lot of funding and I have been saying for the past three months that we need to get the ramps."

Ms Moreton said being a finalist was a huge surprise.

She said: "It is such a small project compared with the sort of things other organisations are asking for.

"It is not very glamorous or exciting, so we are really pleased to be shortlisted.

"We have been going to local primary schools and businesses to ask them to collect tokens on our behalf, and it has been a great chance to tell people about what the centre does.

"In terms of getting the work done it would be nice to be a totally accessible centre. We have a disabled social group that comes in, and it would be reassuring for them that should anything happen they would be able to evacuate the building safely."

The Cameron Centre could win one of three prizes of a day's worth of work and materials from construction firm Leadbitter.

The top prize is for £5,000, second prize is £2,000 and third prize is £1,000.

Rob Bradley, Leadbitter regional director and member of the judging panel, said: "The Cameron Centre does a brilliant job hosting a huge variety of activities for the Lockleaze community.

"While it is already a safe place, new ramps would provide that little bit of extra peace of mind for the management, and make it a more accessible centre for disabled people."

Post deputy editor Rob Stokes said: "Sometimes the simplest things can make the greatest difference. In this case two ramps would mean disabled people could get in and out of the Cameron Centre more easily. Not only that but they could lead to more disabled people using it."

Every day there are tokens and a voting voucher in each copy of the Post.

Each token will have a points value, and the shortlisted groups and their supporters should collect as many tokens as they can.

The club or organisation which has the highest value will win top prize.

The second highest will take second spot, and the club with the third highest tokens will win third place.

The results will be announced on July 17, and the building work will take place in August.