National Sports Centre

Opening hours                           

Open every day (except 24, 25 and 26 December and 1 January), weekdays from 7am to 10pm, and weekends/public holidays 9am to 8pm.

The National Sports Centre (NSC) has good access to facilities for disabled people and also has a range of specialist equipment.

NSC cafe and bar

The bar/cafeteria facility is located in the main atrium between the pools and dry sports facilities and enjoys panoramic views of the athletic stadium. An extensive menu offers meals and light refreshments 7 days per week. 

Open every day from 9am to 6.45pm with hot food served from 10am to 4pm.

Quest Accredited

The NSC is proud to be Quest Accredited and improved its status from Highly Commended, achieved in December 2001, to that of Excellent in 2014. 

Quest is the UK quality scheme for sport and leisure.

‘Quest is a tool for continuous improvement, designed primarily for the management of leisure facilities and leisure development. Quest defines industry standards and good practice and encourages their ongoing development and delivery within a customer focused management framework.’   

The NSC is benchmarked against other sport & leisure facilities in the UK and at the time of writing is currenty rated 4th with a score of 90% in the National League Table.