Venue Hire

The Sports Village facilities are outstanding, with seven superb grass pitches and four state-of-the-art 3G astro pitches, suitable for rugby and football. The excellent on-site hockey facilities include both a water-turf pitch and a sand-dressed-turf pitch.  

The Sports Village also incorporates five tennis courts and fourteen netball courts, including a full-sized international standard court with ample spectator seating. Cricket facilities include a purpose-built cricket ground with six grass wickets and one artificial wicket. The training facilities include a nets area comprising of four artificial surfaces and two grass surfaces.  

The athletics facilities onsite include four long jump pits, high jump, and throwing areas. All the outdoor facilities are completely floodlit, extending the opportunities to train, with 101 lighting columns in total (79no 17.0m & 22no 10.0m) covering the 31 acres of outdoor playing area. The grounds are meticulously maintained by our in-house team of professional grounds staff, who have experience at both Premier League and FIFA World Cup levels.

“Having hosted several international events over the last three years at QE Sports Village, I would highly recommend the facility. The friendly and helpful staff are continually supportive throughout the booking process and during the event, nothing is too much trouble. This is combined with excellent training facilities, including the pitches, outstanding gym, pool, and recovery facilities.”

Gemma Grainger, Women's FA

The Sports Village is home to an impressive Aquatic Centre, including a four lane 25 metre pool, supporting a full Colorado competition timing system, touch pads, and fixed screen.

“We have visited QE on several occasions, returning each year as the facilities are perfect for our Artistic swimming development camps. The modern accommodation is fantastic, is always clean and has everything we could need. All staff at QE make our stay an enjoyable one, going out of their way to help, should anything arise. We couldn’t recommend the first-class facilities and the first-class staff highly enough.”

Tracy, NE Region Artistic Swimming

The state-of-the-art gym is home to a 100-station fitness suite and free weights centre, which includes:

Cardio-Vascular Machines:

• Arc X-Trainers 
• Concept 2 Rowers  
• Upright Bikes 
• Recumbent Bikes 
• Treadmills

Resistance Machines and Equipment:

• Abdominal/Back Extension 
• Cable Towers 
• Chest Press 
• Dip/Pull Up Tower 
• Glute-Ham Developer 
• Hip Abduction/Adduction  
• Lateral Pulldown 
• Leg Curl 
• Leg Extension 
• Pec fly 
• Power Plates  
• Rear Delt fly 
• Shoulder Press  
• Squat Press  
• Dumbbells (up to 70kg) 
• Exercise Balls 
• Kettlebells 
• Plyometric Boxes 
• Squat Racks  
• Suspension Training 
• Power Bags 
• Punching Bags

 
We also have specialist studios used for martial arts, wrestling, dance, gymnastics, table tennis, cycling, archery, fencing and boxing.

Our Sports Science Centre provides athletes with a movement analysis testing and monitoring facility, together with equipment designed for assessing a broad range of health and fitness indicators. To help the rehabilitation and post training recovery of athletes, we also have our Sports Treatment Centre where we use cryotherapy cold spa baths.

“Our week at Queen Ethelburga’s was ideal preparation for the Premiership rugby union season, allowing us to come together as a squad for some quality training time at a top-class venue. The facilities more than met our expectations, the staff were outstanding in making sure we got the most out of our training camp and the feedback from the players has been outstanding.”

Dean Richards, Newcastle Falcons Director of Rugby