Sports, Clubs and Leisure Centres

No matter whether you regularly play sport or are looking to start playing a new sport then North West Leicestershire is the place.

Sports Facilities

Whether you fancy a game of badminton, an early morning swim or fancy a spot of fishing, there will be a sports facilities within North West Leicestershire that meets your needs. With the Hermitage Leisure Centre based in Coalville, Hood Park Leisure Centre based in Ashby de la Zouch and Measham Leisure Centre, Ibstock Leisure Complex and Castle Donington Community College, you are never too far from somewhere to go. To complement these facilities, North West Leicestershire also boasts numerous community facilities, parks and outdoor pools at Hood Park Leisure Centre and Castle Donington Community College.

Sports Development

The Sports Development team aims to increase participation within sport, access to sports clubs, recruit new volunteers and help to secure funding. To achieve this we need to hear from you! The district Sport Development Officer is looking to develop a number of programmes to help improve your club. 

Contact:- Gail Rushton, Sports Development & Alliance Co-ordinator gail.rushton@nwleicestershire.gov.uk

Please Visit the Local Sports Alliance Website for More Information About Sport and Physical Activity Around the District -

http://www.northwestleicslsa.org.uk/

Positive Futures

Positive Futures is a national sports based social inclusion programme, which Crime Concern manages and develops on behalf of the Home Office. Positive Futures is a relationship strategy, based on the principle that through sport and the building of mutual respect, doorways to an alternative lifestyle can open.

Positive Futures offers young people an opportunity to build relationships and to take part in activities that they think are worthwhile, led by dedicated and skilled community coaches and volunteers. The programmes aim to meet the needs of those marginalized groups of young people by providing them diversionary activity that they want to take part in. The hope is to develop them as people, as well as offering alternatives to anti-social behaviour, substance misuse and crime. We provide a variety of activities including Street Dance, DJ Workshops, Basketball, Football, Girls Groups, Youth Clubs and swimming. To find out what is going on, dowload the activity programme below.

Positive Futures Activity programme (PDF Document, 0.1 Mb)

If you would like more information on what the Positive Futures programme could offer your area, please download the booklet below

Positive Futures brochure (PDF Document, 1.01 Mb)

Alternatively, why not visit the Positive Futures website.

g.p. Exercise Referral Scheme

The Active Lifestyle Exercise Referral Scheme is a partnership between the Leicestershire and Rutland Primary Care Trust, North West Leicestershire District Council, G.P Practices and other Health Care Professionals. It offers people who are inactive or who have a condition that could benefit from physical activity, the opportunity to participate in exercise:

• at a special reduced rate
• at a convenient venue in the local community
• under the guidance of qualified exercise professionals.

People need encouragement and support to help them to make the first steps to becoming more active on a regular basis, and this is what the Active Lifestyle Exercise Referral Scheme is all about. A variety of activity programmes are available including exercise to music, aquaerobics, T'ai Chi, exercise in a fitness suite/gym, walking and chair-based exercise.