This page provides a brief introduction to the facilities available at the Recreation Centre and has links to the websites of the sports clubs and other organisations which are based at the Centre. The other pages relate to the Charity which owns and manages the Centre and the Clubs and Organisations based at the Centre, some of which do not have their own websites. Copmanthorpe Recreation Centre occupies a six acre site in Barons’ Crescent. It includes a sports field with Cricket square and two Football pitches. It also has a Bowling Green, three Tennis courts (one also lined for Netball), two children’s Play Areas, Changing Rooms and a multi use Sports Hall. The Recreation Centre also hosts the licensed Sports & Social Club, the Out of School Club, the Childcare Centre and the Sports Therapy Centre, all of which are independant commercial enterprises. There is a defibrilator mounted outside the Sports and Social Club, accessed in emergency by calling 999 and available to all.
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Other Users Guides Optimum Health & Wellbeing Good Companions
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The Centre has a 50 space car park and parents from outside the village are encouraged to use this when driving their children to school in order to avoid danger and congestion outside the school entrances in Low Green. There is direct access from the Centre to the school grounds The Centre is not a City of York facility, it is a community facility held on charitable trusts for the benefit of Copmanthorpe and District. It is funded by commercial rents, contributions from sports clubs, grants from the Parish Council and fund raising activities, chiefly Copmanthorpe Carnival Dogs are not allowed on any part of the centre grounds at any time. Details of the management of the Centre and the charity which owns and manages it can be found on this web site while the websites of the sports clubs and other user groups and businesses operating from the Centre can be found by using the links on the right The Centre includes a childrens play area, which was recently improved and now includes a sensory area, and a 'PlayBuilder' area for older children including climbing wall, zip wire, monkey poles, etc. The Children's Play Area is locked each evening at 8:00pm or dusk, whicever is earlier, and unlocked in the morning.
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