Sports Centre and Gym, University of Cambridge

Information about Sports Centre and Gym, University of Cambridge

Philippa Fawcett Dr
CB3 0AS, Cambridge
+441223336580

Opening hours

  • sunday: 8h-20h
  • monday: 6:30-22h
  • tuesday: 6:30-22h
  • wednesday: 6:30-22h
  • thursday: 6:30-22h
  • friday: 6:30-22h
  • saturday: 8h-20h

The University of Cambridge Sports Service maintains three sites around the city, each available for hire: University of Cambridge Sports Centre Philippa Fawcett Drive Cambridge CB3 0AS Wilberforce Road Sports Ground Wilberforce Road Cambridge CB3 0EQ Fenner's Cricket & Tennis Ground Mortimer Road Cambridge CB1 2EL

Our comment from FitFit UK about Sports Centre and Gym, University of Cambridge:

Welcome to the Sports Centre and Gym at the University of Cambridge, a premier destination for fitness enthusiasts. Our facilities are renowned for their exceptional quality and variety, making us one of the best gyms in Cambridge. Visitors consistently praise our:

  • Superb Facilities: From well-equipped gyms to spacious sports halls, we offer a wide range of amenities, including strength and conditioning rooms, basketball courts, and more.
  • Friendly Staff: Our courteous and helpful staff are always ready to assist you, creating a welcoming environment for all visitors.
  • Excellent Equipment: Enjoy access to a variety of modern exercise machines, including treadmills, ellipticals, and strength training equipment. Recent renovations have only added to our appeal.
  • Value for Money: Members appreciate the flexible membership options without contracts, making it easier to stay fit without commitment.
  • Convenient Location: Although slightly distant from the main city, the sports centre is easily accessible with ample parking facilities.

While our centre has received numerous accolades, we recognize areas for improvement, such as:

  • Some facilities, like the men's changing rooms, need better maintenance.
  • The lack of a swimming pool has been a disappointment for many patrons.
  • Parking can be challenging during peak times, particularly for non-members.

Despite minor drawbacks, we are committed to providing a top-notch sports experience for all. Join us at the Sports Centre and Gym and discover your new fitness sanctuary!

Sports Centre and Gym, University of Cambridge: Opinions

4.5/5 (132 Opinions)
Angie 11 months ago

Fantastic experience: Superb facilities and good value for money. I also like the fact that you are not tied to a contract like other gyms. The strength and conditioning room and the amount of equipment in there is incredible. If you’re into strength training, I highly recommend this gym.

Prita Yadav 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Went to the place for Cambridge dance competition in the court. The entire area was clean and huge

Robyn Allwright 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Fantastic sports centre

Nick Sharp 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: I visited a Job fair here, facilities looked very good

Stevan Milson 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Wonderful venue with friendly staff and so much fun playing pickle ball

Tibor Dome 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: The gym is very well equipped, with many treadmills, cycle trainers, weight racks, bench press racks, squat racks and multi-functional trainers. The staff is also very nice.

Aidan Tolhurst 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Didn’t stop for long but very well equipped. Large scale of exercise machines, on site coffee places with very reasonable prices.

Lee Zhi Yan 1 year ago

Negative experience: Play badminton, they didn't chase us away and no one come so we continue play. Then they set a trap by forcing us to pay the extra hour on the way back, feel cheated.

T S 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Good but quite far from the main city

Nick Karamesinis 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: best basketball court in Cambridge

Anuj Dubey 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Hands down one of the best gyms in Cambridgeshire. The sheer number of strength training equipment is impressive. Equipment is highly advanced and quite literally built to perfection. Sufficient space, lockers, and showering facilities for a quick detour on the way to work. Remains sparsely populated early morning. In-house cafeteria is an added bonus! Receptions and trainers are polite and helpful. A minor drawback is that it stays closed during public holidays.

Mike Cimelli 1 year ago

Positive experience: Been a member since 2015 Pros: Facilities are good and staff always friendly and helpful. Quiet during the day, can get busy around 5 onwards (Small) car park nearby Cons: - Expensive. - Treadmills can't connect to WiFi which makes the Technogym feature useless. One of the most predigious and wealthy unis in the country and they can't sort out their WiFi. - Always having issues with the men's changing rooms stinking of something . - Lots of lockers seem to have been broken for a long while. Refer to the earlier comment about wealthy uni. - No pool. - Even after a recent repair the carpark still looks like a victim of Russian shelling.

Anton Kolyshkin 1 year ago

Positive experience: Loud unpleasant music, untidy changing rooms, perfume overuse by students, but good location

Karl Beezley 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Great gym not to far from city centre good resourceful Indoor sports hall plus large fitness gym and weights gym added bonus of a boxing training arena though is no swim pool or latest hi tech phisio aperatus such as a hydo pool ecetra

Praza 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: The best sports centre I have ever been. I have been a member of this gym for more than 2 years now. What separate this gym from others is their staff and the facilities you get to use. Would love to see them have a swimming pool as a part of the centre in the future

Mark Thurman 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Excellent facilities

Rodney Button 2 years ago

Positive experience: Attended a trampoline competition with my granddaughter. First class facilities, plenty of seating available for spectators. Poor cafeteria with limited selection of food available, considering the number of people who attended today.

alexis delcourt 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great gym with a good variety of equipment.

Sarah Williamson 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Easy to find, plenty of car parking. Lovely facilities.

Viveganandam Viththagan 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Amazing indoor courts. Need to book as early as possible.

Matt Savage 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Lovely facilities and a good working environment.

Tasos Stavridis 2 years ago

Positive experience: Been to the centre a few times so far. Nice and clean facility

Raha 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: You can book and use easily

The P-H-O 2 years ago

Positive experience: Personally find the gym membership overpriced for the space and amount of equipment but this is the only major gym in the area. Recently there has been a renovation with new kit added, more benches and cable machines. Mens changing rooms stinks the times I've been over the last few months. And many lockers in the changing rooms do not work.

Neil Oliver 2 years ago

Positive experience: Friendly and helpful staff. Superb facilities including gym, sports hall and fives courts. Parking facilities need to be increased and updated though.

Ernesto Perez 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Really good facilities

William Crabbe 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Everything is well maintained. Great facilities with a lot of space and machines for all types of exercises and routines. Friendly and helpful staff .

John Butterworth R1955 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Good sports venue

Georg Brenner (G.B.) 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Nice place and good service

Hilary Gibbons 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: My grandson came for a coaching session. It was excellent!

Neil Kirkland 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great facility, friendly staff

Kaywan Ibrahim 1382 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: I need get back to it it’s great gym

Iñaki Abadia 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great facilities for squash, badminton, basketball and fives. I play squash here often and it’s about the best in Cambridge. 5 well taken care of courts with glass back wall and seating and tables. Parking is available on site or otherwise cycling is very convenient too. I recommend using the mobile app, though cumbersome, it’s functional for booking.

Natasha Chambers 3 years ago

Positive experience: There are excellent facilities here. Changing rooms are spacious and always clean. There is a brilliant physio on site. Parking is good It would definitely get 5 stars if there were tennis courts...

Will Pickering 3 years ago

Positive experience: Good gym and sports facilities

Leo 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: I go here to play squash regularly. There are 5 squash quarts that you can play on, each costing £10 for 45 minutes for a member. The gym inside looks small but features a wide variety of equipment. The staff are friendly and you can borrow racquets from the centre.

Sam Abani 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: It was large enough to gost the tae kwon do competition Oxford vs Cambridge. Good hall and gym area.

Heloísa Rota Ishi 3 years ago

Positive experience: Fui assistir a um jogo de vôlei e não pude entrar porquê estava com o meu cachorro :(

Iqra Tunio 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Nice gym. Easy access and parking. But only if they could probably make the gym a little nicer and put a few new machines etc.

Shruti Gupta 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Amazing facilities, friendly staff! Can book courts and group classes through app. Convenient systems.

Andy JC Taylor 3 years ago

Positive experience: This is a great facility and the Futsal on display was to a high standard

William B 3 years ago

Positive experience: Top sports facility, but no swimming pool.

Ravi More 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Awesome Badminton and jim facility

Claus Atter 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Very good facility.

Kevin Gathercole 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great place and very clean

Thomas 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Excellent gym with a strength and conditioning area as well as a cardio/machines room. S&C room has 6 power racks, 8 new blackbox racks with safety arms and access to a 'team training room' upstairs with 3 more racks when not in use by teams in term-time. Dumbell weights go up to 60kg. Most users will come here for the cardio and machines room which you walk right up to as you enter the facility with plenty of ellipticals, Wattbikes, treadmills etc. This has recently been refurbished in April 2023. Negatives are the showers which have mould on the tiled walls and grout. Despite mentioning this to staff for several months, this has not been removed nor regularly cleaned off. Many of the lockers have been out of use for years. Other maintenance issues could also be more speedily resolved. Only thing that's really missing is a sauna to relax. Commend the gym for taking hygiene seriously with hygiene stations around the premises with paper towels to clean all equipment before/after use.

Francis Merino 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Probably one of the best university gyms I've been to. And definitely the best gym in Cambridge.

Param Jeet 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: One of the best places to play sports. Totally loved it.

Jeremy Feng 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great facilities at good prices, especially if you're a student

Jason 4 years ago

Positive experience: Great gym, just wish it had a sauna / steam room

Mohammad Riaz Khan 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Clean, well organised sports centre.

Tom Williams 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Excellent modern facilities.

Richard Chappell 4 years ago

Positive experience: Good facilities

Peng-Fan Chen 4 years ago

Positive experience: just passed by ...

Akash Gupta 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Good covid precautions and one way system

Lin Soh 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great gym

Mel Josen 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Nice

Rachel Knight 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: They've been doing such an amazing job of operating the gym under Covid guidelines

Gunnar Kusch 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Way to small for an university of that size otherwise nice.

Hannah Galbraith-Olive 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Well run gym, feels very safe covid-wise

Ss Alk 5 years ago

Positive experience: They can do better.

Barnabas Leeke 5 years ago

Positive experience: Really nice clean and quiet gym (at least when I went). Staff are friendly and helpful and it has a good range of equipment and facilities. Just lacks swimming/Spa facilities to make it 5*

Paul Bradbury 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Wheelpower put on a grand event for little rockers and not so little rockers

Oliver Scott 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Fantastically helpful and kind staff, excellent range of equipment, decent price

tim nichols 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great facilities

Elena 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Super friendly staff, great classes and plenty of room and equipment!:))

Krishnaa Mahbubani 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great equipment and people. Hours are sensible

Sumudu Herath 6 years ago

Positive experience: High quality gym equipment and sports facilities. I would not complain on the student pricing forthe gym for the quality of service it provides. Specifically can recommend the badminton courts and indoor courts in general. Probably one of the best sporting facility of a University.

Basant Tripathi 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Excellent facility

Tom Peak 6 years ago

Positive experience: Very expensive gym, especially as they keep some of the equipment rooms closed so you cannot use their full range. Not bad though, and it is convenient for those living in Eddington.

Maureen Marsh 6 years ago

Positive experience: Great!

Kevin Maughan 6 years ago

Negative experience: Catering facilities within the sports hall have been shut down. I was directed to Sainsbury's (a mile away) when I asked.

Suzie Carlisle 5757 6 years ago

Positive experience: Just the place to get back to fitness

S C 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Very helpful and kind.

carole middleton 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Eldest daughter accesses this superb sports centre attending the CADMuS ... Cambridge adult disability multi sport club ... a few disabled parking spaces, as well as some parking space facilities. Ease of access for those on foot ... Sign posting can be a bit confusing before the actual turning of Phillipa Fawcett Drive. Level access on main square and into the centre itself.

Nipun Sawhney 6 years ago

Positive experience: Lovely facilities. Only issue is the air conditioning isn't perfect and also the prices for membership and booking are quite high

Nida Mikalauskiene 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Aš ten lankausi pas fizioterapeuta,esu patenkinta

Scott 6 years ago

Positive experience: Good gym, but can be full of students just talking for hours.

Tiffany Burns 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Really lovely facility! Friendly employees and it was very clean.

Paul Tonks 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: The best gym in Cambridge, with fantastic staff.

Cristian Yair Soriano Camelo 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great place !

Chiao-Ying Lin 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Well-equipped gym, kind staff. Members could have the training schedule from the experts

sivasubramaniam subbian 6 years ago

Positive experience: Lovely place to work out and play badminton, squash etc. Bit disappointed that they dont have swimming pool. They should also change to better lock and barrier system

Viswanath Nittala 6 years ago

Positive experience: Good. But pricey for students..

Dexter Millen 6 years ago

Positive experience: University competition. Great venue. Nice staff.

Mo Sibbons 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Excellent sports facilities, friendly and welcoming staff, a great centre open to all Cambridge residents.

Gurashish Singh 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Best facilities ever seen in any sports arena.

Paul Bullough 6 years ago

Positive experience: Good facilities, but parking is a nightmare for non-members.

Lucy B 6 years ago

Positive experience: Excellent centre with plenty of space. Gym is well equipped as is the weight room. A large variety of sports are run here which are mostly open to all not just students (just check the clubs web/fb pages for details). Only occasional problem is the parking which is a bit lacking and you'll need a card to access it.

car engine 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Best gym I've been to! 6 power racks in the strength room, plenty of weights and space for all sorts of exercises.

G Dunmow 6 years ago

Positive experience: Went here for a fencing event. The car park was a very long walk from the sports centre. Thankfully it was not raining. Could be a problem if you have difficulties walking.

Nick Bane 6 years ago

Positive experience: Pretty good generally.

J W 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great facilities, staff friendly

Andrew Moore 6 years ago

Negative experience: Still no swimming pool. How disappointing for 25 years the promise has been "in the next ten years".... well of course the next ten years has never come.

Josh Grainge 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great facilities with changing rooms, toilets and water fountains

Oli 6 years ago

Negative experience: Would be an alright gym if they enforced the rule of no mobile phones in the gym. Instead you get zombies sat staring at their phone screen, taking up equipment that could be used by someone else.

Simon Wan 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Very well equipped facility

Abhiram Gundimeda 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: World class facilities

Andrew Brown 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Superb. Great staff, Great Centre

Alfred Hwangbo 7 years ago

Fantastic experience: Friendly staff ! Great facility !

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