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Welsh judo centre
opens in Cardiff
The new £1.1m Welsh National Judo
The new sports centre will enhance the university campus
Centre opened to the public at the
Welsh Institute of Sport in Cardiff
New £7.6m centre for Ulster
on 29 October.
Facilities at the centre, which was
built by Welsh construction company
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he University of Ulster is planning “As well as enhancing our campus Jehu Project Services, will include
to build a £7.6m sports centre on its sports facilities, the new centre will international competition-standard
Coleraine campus. facilitate widening participation and un- facilities as well as a sports science
Architects GM design have been com- derpins the university’s plan of consoli- and medicine centre.
missioned to design the project, which dating activities at Coleraine.” Philip Carling, chair of the Sports
is to be built near to existing student The centre will offer indoor training Council of Wales, said: “Having a
residences. Professor Robert Hutchin- facilities for football, Gaelic games and dedicated facility for judo in Wales
son, provost of the campus, said: “This rugby as well as a gym and a strength will make a huge difference when it
exciting project represents the largest and conditioning suite. There will also comes to building up strength and
single investment ever on the Coleraine be facilities for basketball, martial arts depth in the sport.”
campus for student support. and dance.
£23m athletics
SE announces sustainable grants
venue planned
for Cumbria
P
lymouth City Council has received
a £2m grant from Sport England
towards the construction costs of
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£23m stadium is to be built the city’s new regional sports centre.
at Copeland Athletics Sta- The funding represents a fifth of Sport
dium in the Hensingham sub- England’s Sustainable Facilities Fund
urb of Whitehaven, west Cumbria. (SSF) – a £10m pot for which Sport Eng-
The new Cumbria Academy of land received a total of 69 applications.
Sport will comprise a 14,000-capacity Six other projects across the UK qualified
stadium linked via a concourse to a for funding from the SSF, with a further
leisure centre offering a competi- four asked to develop their bids with the
tion swimming pool and a four-court view of possibly receiving funding.
The Life Centre in Plymouth received
badminton hall. Manchester City Council and British
£2m of Sport England funding
There will also be a health and Cycling were awarded £3m towards
fitness suite, internal and external plans to create a National Indoor BMX completed the successful line up for
climbing walls and two dance studios. Centre in Sportcity, while Nottingham this year’s SSF funding.
A shop, café and conference facili- Trent University will receive £700,000 Richard Lewis, chair of Sport England,
ties will also be built. towards the redevelopment of the said: ”These investments will deliver
The trustees of the academy have university’s sports facilities. sustainable sporting opportunities for
hired an as yet unnamed, Man- Durham University (£500,000), Paign- thousands of people across the country.
chester-based architect to design the ton Community and Sports College “The high quality facilities supported
stadium. If the scheme is successful, (£300,000), Northrowram Community through this fund will help us deliver a
the new stadium is scheduled to Sports and Activity Club (£175,000) lasting Olympic and Paralympic legacy of
open within the next three years. and Burnage Rugby Club (£120,000) increased participation in sport.”
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