Thurrock has a wide range of sporting facilities within the borough, from outdoor pitches to leisure centres, and from golf clubs to athletics tracks. Sports and Leisure can offer information and advice on the following:
Sport England's Active Places website allows you to search for fitness facilities all over the country. The idea of the Active Places database of facilities is that it is designed to make it easier for members of the public to take part in sport and physical activity, by finding out easily where they go to take part.
Please visit www.activeplaces.com to search for any facilities.
[back to top]Outdoor sports are not currently based within the remit of the Sports and Leisure Department, although there are a great number of facilities that are Council run.
These include:
Grangewaters is an outdoor education facility for schools, youth groups and any other organisations. There is a wide range of choice of activities, which you can book, these include:
It is essential to pre-book to use the centre and to take part in the activities, for more information please telephone the contact number above.
There are a wide range of facilities that are available for the public use at the Recreation Grounds across the borough:
There are also a great number of MUGAs (Multi Use Games Areas), which are distributed over the borough, which sports such as basketball, and 5 a-side football can be played upon.
There is one Athletics Track in the borough, which is used by the athletics club, Thurrock Harriers. The facilities include:
If you are interested in Athletics, please contact Les Hughes from Thurrock Harriers on 01375 361343.
There are a number of different golf clubs in the borough, some of which operate with a pay and play system, others with membership categories. Please contact the individual golf clubs for more information:
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There are a number of country parks in Thurrock which are suitable for many different forms of informal recreation activities, for contact details on the country parks, please go to the Contacts Page of the Website.
[back to top]There are a number of leisure centres in the borough; three of the main centres are run by Impulse Leisure. Impulse Leisure, which was formerly known as Thurrock Community Leisure Ltd, took over the operation of the Leisure Centres in the year 2000 from Thurrock Council. Impulse Leisure is a charitable trust, which means that it is a non-profit distributing organisation.
All of the leisure centres that Impulse manage are open to members and non-members, however, if you do purchase a membership you are able to use all of the leisure centres that they manage in the borough. If you would like more information on the leisure centres you could look at the Impulse Leisure website at www.impulseleisure.co.uk.
Over 55s Membership Package - due to popular demand, Impulse Leisure has launched a new membership package for anyone over the age of 55. The package has been set up to entice this age group to exercise more, keep fit and healthy. The scheme allows customers to use any of the facilities at the centres between the hours of 10am and 3pm. To find out more about membership packages, please visit: http://www.impulseleisure.co.uk/TCLMembership.htm. For more information on activities for older people in Thurrock, please visit: Older People / Over 50s.
The leisure centres that Impulse manage have the following facilities available to the general public:
The leisure centre boasts a number of facilities, many of which can be hired by the public, including:
The Civic Hall is a versatile venue, which can accommodate up to 750 people, and can be used for a wide variety of functions. The hall also contains an air-conditioned foyer with licensed bar and catering facilities. For more information on the Civic Hall please call 01375 401234 or email civichall@thurrock.gov.uk.
The leisure centre shares the grounds of the country park with an 18 hole golf course, bar and restaurant. The facilities available at the leisure centre are:
The golf course also has 11 floodlight bays in the driving range, although on the course itself priority is given at certain times to those who are members of the golf club. For more information please telephone 01708 854620.
Corringham New Fitness Suite
The new fitness suite has been fitted with state-of-the-art Techno Gym equipment, which have been biomechanically manufactured and ergonomically designed to suit user's needs best.
The cardiovascular equipment have all been fitted with individual touch-screen televisions allowing users to choose their channels whilst still being able to monitor their workout.
Furthermore, like Blackshots, Corringham is a fully inclusive gym aiming to tackle the physical, communication and cultural barriers facing disabled people when using fitness facilities. The IFI approved equipment provides users with the same opportunities to train and exercise as non-disabled users.
Once inducted, each member will receive a wellness key that contains their personal training programme. When the key is inserted into the Techno Gym equipment the screen will coach gym members throughout their workouts and also track, monitor and improve users performance, technique and fitness.
For those who enjoy taking part in classes, they will find the large aerobics studio bright, airy and very spacious. The studio will hold a range of classes to suit members' individual needs, interests and goals.
Don't forget if you are a current gym member to book your Wellness induction and pick up your FREE Techno Gym key. The inductions last 30 minutes and will allow you to try out the kit.
If you haven't joined already, book an appointment by calling a membership advisor on (01375) 415755 to discuss which membership is right for you.
Corringham Leisure Centre is located in the middle of the town centre and offers the following facilities for use:
In addition to the leisure centres run by Impulse Leisure, Thurrock also has the sports and fitness centre located at Palmers College.
As the Sports and Fitness Centre is used by the students from the college, there will be times when use of some facilities by the general public may be restricted, if you would like more details about this please contact the centre. The centre operates with a members and non-members option. The facilities that Palmers can offer are:
For more information on any of the facilities please contact Palmers, or alternatively visit their website at www.palmers.ac.uk.
This is not an exhaustive list of the health and fitness facilities located in Thurrock, as there are also a wide range of private gyms and clubs that you can also choose to become a member of.
[back to top]In Thurrock, a large number of the secondary schools are able to offer many of their facilities to the community for usage. With the majority of these you will need to contact the school to ask them about hiring their facility, you will not able to turn up and just use them.
For more information please contact the school on 01708 865180
For more information please contact the school on 01375 484580
At the current moment the school does not let their outdoor pitches.
For more information please contact the school on 01375 400800.
For more information please contact the school on 01375 489000
Please contact the school for further information on 01375 371361
For more information please contact the school on 01375 671566
For more information please contact the school on 01708 851661.
For more information please contact the school on 01375 641001
For more information please contact the school on 01375 486000
[back to top]A Facilities Strategy is currently being development with Thames Gateway, the Unitary Development Corporation and Sport England.
[back to top]If you are looking to develop your sport facility please get in touch with the Sports and Leisure team, as not only would we be interested to hear what you intend to develop, but we may be able to assist you. We may be able to assist with helping you to plan your development to fall in line with new Disability Discrimination Act legislation, or to help you to look at any funding that you may be able to apply for in order to achieve your plans.
Please contact us on 01375 413966 or email sports.development@thurrock.gov.uk
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