As well as using any of our swimming and paddling pools, you can join in a number of sport and fitness activities across the city:
- Sport for families
- Dance sessions
- Sport and fitness sessions
- Sport and fitness for older people
- Informal sport for young people
- Fitness for adults with medical conditions
- Accessible sport and fitness
- Walking for health
- Fitness for mental health users and homeless people
- Sport for children in care and young carers
Our sports facilities map shows sports centres and locations in Cambridge.
In addition to co-ordinating these activities, the Sports and Recreation team also gives advice about:
- Club, coach and individual development (including funding and volunteering)
- Safeguarding children in sport
Contact
You can email the Sports Development Service at sport@cambridge.gov.uk or telephone 01223 457532.
You can also follow the Sports Development Service on Facebook.
Elsewhere on this website
- 2012 Olympics — celebrating the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games and Cultural Olympiad
- Disability Sports and Arts Festival — taking place on 9 September at Chesterton Sports centre
Our priorities
Between 2009–13 the council will address the following priorities:
- Supporting community sport
- Improving health
- Targeted participation
- Community safety
These priorities are highlighted within the Sports Strategy 2009–13.
The strategy outlines how we aim to achieve our vision of Cambridge as a city with diverse, high-quality sports services that are accessible to all Cambridge citizens and make a major contribution to healthy, thriving communities.
Our standards
We will:
- respond to your written enquiries within seven working days
- answer our telephones within 12 seconds
- ensure that you are aware of our complaints procedure
- provide a booking service that is efficient and easy to use
- treat people in a fair and equitable manner
- positively examine all options in order to cater for the special needs of people with disabilities who wish to participate in sports development activities
- provide you with satisfactory information before the start of your course or activity
- provide appropriate information on how to progress from your course or activity
- provide you with an opportunity to feed back your comments to us
- treat you with a high standard of courtesy and helpfulness by our staff
- provide a high standard of service at our courses and activities
- offer courses and activities that are perceived by users to be good value for money
If things go wrong
If you wish to address us directly with a complaint please contact us by telephone or email, or visit the customer service centre.
We will acknowledge your complaint within three working days and respond within seven working days. If we need longer than this to deal with your complaint, we will tell you why this is when we can reply.
