leisure centres

March 20, 2024

Users of Didcot Wave Leisure Centre and Park Sports Centre in Wheatley can be assured they have bright, sustainable futures thanks to £3m investment in cleaner, greener technologies.

November 6, 2023

Swimming pools across South Oxfordshire and Vale of White Horse have been awarded a total of £441,542. The award will help ensure residents continue to have access to good swimming facilities across the two districts. Recent research has shown swimming positively contributes to physical and mental wellbeing, to individual and community development, and helps to […]

February 1, 2023

Changing facilities at a sports centre are getting an eco-friendly makeover with help from money secured from developers’ building houses in the area.
Environmentally friendly measures such as energy efficient LED lighting will be installed, as well as eco-friendly hand-dryers and new toilet flushes and showers that use less water.

September 10, 2020

After recent assessments of the leisure facilities across southern Oxfordshire, South Oxfordshire and Vale of White Horse district councils have agreed with GLL, who run the “Better” centres, that the second phase of reopening can start and from the 14 September more leisure activities will be able to resume.  On 25 July when leisure centres […]

July 27, 2020

Released on July 24, 2020 This weekend is one that many have been waiting for as some of the leisure centres in South Oxfordshire and the Vale of White Horse will begin opening. There will be a gradual, phased opening from this Saturday, which includes changes to opening times. While not all facilities will be […]

July 16, 2020

Released on July 15, 2020 Last week the government announced details for when leisure centres and swimming pools could re-open. South Oxfordshire and Vale of White Horse District Councils are working with Better, who run the council leisure facilities, to agree to a re-opening plan for the leisure service that complies with the government guidance […]