Leisure Services provides opportunities for the City's residents and visitors, young and older, to develop, and maintain, healthy lifestyles through participating in sports and recreational activities.
Leisure services provides these opportunities through:
- The provision of swimming pools, sports centres, fitness suites and an outdoor activity centre
- The provision of parks, including historic parks, sports grounds and playing pitches, countryside parks, nature reserves, riverside parks, local open spaces, recreation grounds and allotments
- Encouraging children and young people to develop their interest in sport, particularly football, cricket, swimming, tennis and outdoor adventurous activity
- Encouraging and supporting numerous community organisations across the City to provide activities of a recreational and educational nature in locally accessible buildings
- Encouraging residents of all ages to view participation in physical activity as a means to improving health and the quality of life
The operational services are organised into 4 sections.
Newcastle Leisure
Parks and Countryside
Community Facilities
Sport and Physical Activity
has the responsibility for managing the 5 public pools and 7 sports centres. This is a large operation that attracts some 1.7 million attendances per year. Of the 12 centres, 8 are within the Neighbourhood Renewal areas and 2 are in the City Centre. We also operate the City Hall which commands a substantial share of the concert venue entertainment market within Newcastle.
has responsibility for the efficient and effective management of the City's parks, recreation grounds, local open spaces, outdoor sports pitches, allotments, countryside parks, riverside parks and walkways. The responsibilities include public consultation, preparing management plans, organising user forums, facility bookings, funding procurement, events management - all carried out to ensure effective liaison with the grounds maintenance teams that are managed through the Environmental Services Division of the Directorate.
has responsibility for ensuring that the wide range of community centres located across most of the City are well run, are programmed to meet local needs and are in good condition. There are more than 60 community associations managing these facilities and the sections role is to support these organisations with advice training and financial help
has responsibility for promoting and encouraging children, young people, adults and older people to participate in sports and physical activity. It does this by organising a very wide range of courses and activities to enable people, adults as well as children, to acquire the skills to participate and improve. It ensures that there is a supply of good quality, well trained coaches and instructors to create the social environment needed to ensure that participation is sustained. An important ancillary role is the advice and support offered to the hundreds of voluntary organisations and clubs that provide activity across the City.
Leisure Services
Neighbourhood Services
Civic Centre
NE1 8PN
Phone: 0191 232 8520
Fax: 0191 211 4980