Rolls-Royce Leisure
The Rolls-Royce of facilities
In Kerry Haywood’s hometown of Derby, Rolls-Royce Leisure has provided the facilities for a better work/life balance and a place for social interaction, for almost 100 years. Grounds Maintenance Supervisor, Chris Moody, talks her through the vast array of facilities on this thirty five acre complex
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riginally established to provide Rolls-Royce employees with a leisure facility and social venue to enjoy with family and friends, today, the complex is open to
say the least.
Back in 1924, the site started as a bar and
a snooker room and it’s grown from there. Today, it comprises of six football pitches, four hard courts and six grass tennis courts (the most in Derbyshire) and three crown bowls greens; Chris Moody, and his young their work cut out. Chris has been at the facility for just over
a year and, brings experience from; three their training ground and academy, where moving to Rolls-Royce Leisure.
that Chris enjoys and describes the complex as being second to none. “It’s a very busy, never ending project for the team. We not
aspects of the overall set up, such as rooms than ever before.” “We boast some of the best rugby pitches in the County and the football pitches are open for hire every Saturday and Sunday. The six pitches see fourteen teams play up to ten games every weekend, which means they get quite a lot of use. I see them as above council level, but they’re never going to be on a professional scale, so we aim for somewhere in the middle. If pitches aren’t as much as possible. As the council pitches
and more busy.”
and 3rd teams in the Derbyshire Cricket tournament with Rolls-Royce employees throughout August.
across the site, and there are few problems to deal with, apart from the surface becoming compacted under
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