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£1.1m sports hub unveiled in Lincoln
The centre offers a range of activities to help teach youngsters life-long skills £8m Sutton Life Centre opens A
new £8m leisure and learning centre, which aims to teach young people about citizenship,
has been opened in Sutton, London. Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg
attended the launch of the Sutton Life Centre, which includes one of the largest climbing walls in the UK – measuring 20m x 10m – and sports courts. London-based Curl la Tourelle Archi- tects and Land Design Studio were be-
hind the design of the new facility, which also includes a Life Skills Zone. The zone comprises an indoor street in the style of a movie set and a multi-media studio, including 360-degree screen projections to create a number of virtual worlds. Clegg said: “Growing up today isn’t
easy, as life has become more complex for young people to navigate. We want to wipe the slate clean so young people are free from the burden of our failings.”
A new £1.1m environmentally-friendly sports hub has been unveiled at Yar- borough Leisure Centre in Lincoln. The hub building incorporates six
changing rooms and two offi cials’ changing rooms, in addition to a 60sq m (646sq ft) training and meet- ing room with catering facilities. Air source heat pumps, together with
underffl oor heating and solar thermal hot water and rainwater harvesting, form part of the building’s design to ensure energy effi ciency. The hub also complements recent
work to improve football pitches and athletics facilities at the complex.
MCFC handed keys to new football hub
M
anchester City Football Club (MCFC) has been officially handed the keys
to its new ‘City in the Community’ hub at East Manchester Academy, Beswick. Pupils will be provided with two after-school coaching sessions per week, in addition to free Com- munity Soccer Schools for boys and girls during holiday periods. Badminton, table tennis and vol-
leyball sessions will also be held as part of MCFC’s PL4Sport initiative, while three enterprise days are to be held for each year group from 2011. MCFC chief executive Garry Cook
said: “Our City in the Community staff will be working closely with the new Year 7 intake on a daily basis, and Manchester City Ladies FC and our Academy scholars will train here.”
Funding for London sports facilities L
ondon mayor Boris Johnson has announced that 13 sports schemes are to be the first to benefit from
a new fund to help transform the capi- tal’s community facilities. The Playsport London Facilities Fund
has been set up by the mayor as part of a bid to establish a grassroots sports legacy from the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. It is hoped that investment in sports schemes will also help to address a
“significant shortfall” in community facilities across the capital, with many venues oversubscribed. Redbridge Sports Centre (£200,000)
and the Europa Centre in Bexley (£200,000) – both confirmed as 2012 Games Time training venues – are among the recipients of funding. Haringey Council will net £250,000
towards a multiple pool redevelopment scheme, while Coolhurst Lawn Tennis and Squash Club will receive £100,000.
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Facilities across the capital will benefit from the new funding
Enfield’s Queen Elizabeth II Sta-
dium will benefit from a grant worth £250,000 towards revamped changing facilities, while Camberwell Baths has been awarded £50,000. Epping Forest, on behalf of Orion Harriers running club, has been awarded £50,000 towards a new clubhouse and Westway Sports Centre has been handed £42,000.
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