Lace Hill Sports and Community Centre - Buckingham Town Council

Welcome to Lace Hill Sports & Community Centre

Thank you for visiting the Lace Hill Sports & Community Centre webpage. If you are looking for a local venue to hire, or want to start a new activity, organise a fundraising event or thinking of volunteering, why not get in touch and speak to the coordinator about hiring the centre.

Lace Hill Sports & Community Centre is a welcoming facility situated on the Lace Hill estate, owned, and operated by Buckingham Town Council. There are two main rooms, a sports hall, and a committee room, that offer a range of activities from sports to exercise and private functions.

The Centre aims to provide a well maintained, accessible community resource for the benefit of Buckingham residents, contributing to community growth, development, and the economic well-being of the local area. What’s more we have lots of weekly activities and classes suitable for all ages, ranging from, baby & toddler classes, badminton, dance, karate, yoga, judo, football and more. View the timetable below for the full list.

A member of staff may not always be available on site but the office is usually manned between 9 AM and 3 PM Monday to Friday so please contact us if you wish to enquire or would like to arrange a visit. There is free onsite parking and four designated blue badge spaces.

The Centre is all on one level and fully accessible. There is a ramp/slope leading from the car park to the main entrance, but this is slight. Push button automatic front doors which open out towards you are in operation. Inside there is an accessible toilet, a wide corridor making it wheelchair and mobility scooter friendly. The doors leading into the hall and committee room are all double, push to open doors.

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Address

Catchpin Street, Buckingham, MK18 7RR

Email The Lace Hill Centre

Telephone: 01280 816 426

Directions

The centre is situated on the Lace Hill Estate in Buckingham. If you are arriving from the Buckingham Bypass A421, you will need to take the turning for the A413. The nearest bus stops are on London Road close to Tesco and Lidl. From there you can access through two roundabouts, and you will enter the estate on to Needlepin Way. Stay on Needlepin Way until you see the turning for Catchpin Street or Weavers Close. Both will lead you to the centre.

Hiring the Lace Hill Sports and Community Centre

The Sports and Community Centre consists of:

The Sports Hall:

Capacity of up to 100 people
The hall is suitable for a variety of sports and social activities (badminton, parties, fundraising events and sports competitions)
Includes 100 chairs and 20 tables
The facilities are normally available between 7am and 11pm. Bookings required outside of this time will be considered on an individual basis dependent on the proposed use.
All hirers have use of a kitchen and male, female and accessible toilets.

The Committee Room:

Capacity of up to 40 people
Suitable for small meetings
Includes 20 committee chairs and committee tables
The facilities are normally available between 7am and 11pm. Bookings required outside of this time will be considered on an individual basis dependent on the proposed use.
All hirers have use of a kitchen and male, female and accessible toilets.

Sports Pitches:

Two full size football pitches
Four changing rooms
Two referee rooms including showers
All hirers have use of a kitchen and male, female and accessible toilets.

All hire prices are per hour, and include VAT if applicable. All bookings are subject to availability and must include time for set up, function, and clear up times. Book ten sessions and get one free! Please enquire for bank holiday availability and prices.

Further information

Hire Agreement Timetable

For more information about temporary event licences please contact Buckinghamshire Council’s licensing department or see information www.buckinghamshire.gov.uk

Buckinghamshire Lace is a very fine pillow lace, and the making of it provided an income for local women until the First World War, especially here in Buckingham. Lace making is part of the Town’s industrial heritage.

A typical Buckinghamshire Lace motif is the ‘cucumber’, a short fat oval with a line of holes (to represent seeds) inside; the Mayor’s jabot, a decorative collar, has a strip of cucumber pattern lace. Very complex patterns might need as many as a hundred bead-weighted bobbins and these were often carved and decorated.

Town Councillors chose a mixture of names for the streets on Lace Hill – some tools, like Pillow, Bobbin, Linen, Silk, and some stitches, like Mayflower, Butterfly, Constance and Rosemary.

As for the name for the estate: Lace Hill is just for ease of reference. This does not need to form part of the postal address. The Town Council is grateful for the expert help of Kay Bradley, Kay Meadows and Helene Hill in compiling the list of possible street names.

We will help all hirers to promote their activity

We really do value all our long-term hirers and “one off ” bookings. By using our venue to host your activities you’re helping to contribute to the development of the centre and the economic well-being of the local community. In return we will do our best to help promote hirers events, groups, classes clubs etc. on the web page and through our social media pages and notice boards free of charge. Just send us the details and an image and we’ll do the rest!

Useful links to some of our activity providers: