Enjoy world-class sporting facilities and outreach

DURHAM University is inviting more people to take advantage of its sports outreach programme - and enjoy its world-class sporting facilities. The University's Maiden Castle currently hosts 15 community clubs, engaging more than 2,000 local residents, including staff, each week. More than 200 Durham students regularly volunteer their time to run coaching sessions, clinics and large-scale events for local children, working with more than 45 schools each year. Their school holiday camps are extremely popular and two will be held over the upcoming Easter holidays. Additionally, the University recognises the power of sport for both physical and mental well-being and, working with others, has run multi-sport programmes for drug rehabilitation clients; people with learning disorders, mental health disabilities and autistic spectrum disorders; vulnerable women; homeless people; and young offenders. In total, these involve more than 4,000 people each year. Maiden Castle is open to the public, offering a fitness suite, athletics track, squash courts, sports hall, fencing salle, ergo gallery and hockey, rubber crumb and grass pitches.