Tag: John Charles Centre for Sport

Centre serves up tennis for everyone

It’s not just about Wimbledon fortnight, you can play tennis year round at the Indoor Tennis Centre, part of the John Charles Centre for Sport right here in South Leeds. The centre houses six full size tennis pitches, but manager Dwight Brown explains whilst you can just turn up, pay

Let’s Get Active in South Leeds

Let’s Get Active – the free access to council sports facilities scheme – has a new timetable out for 2015. If you’re still working out to fulfil that New Year’s resolution to be more active, help is at hand. The Leeds Let’s Get Active scheme is designed to help people

Council gains city wide injunction to prevent encampments

  Leeds City Council has gained a wide ranging injunction to prevent travellers from setting up unlawful encampments on key environmentally sensitive areas of land across the city. The six sites are: Holbeck Moor, The John Charles Centre for Sport, Gassy Field at Armley Gyratory, Roundhay Park and Soldiers Field,

Hawks try scuba diving at John Charles Centre

Hunslet Hawks may be riding high at the top of Championship 1, but the players found time to take the plunge with a spot of scuba diving ahead of their weekend victory over Gateshead Thunder. Aaron Lyons, Danny Ansell, Liam Mackay, John Oakes and Luke Stenchion were keen to experience