
Information about Greenway Centre
Opening hours
- sunday: 9h-17h
- monday: 8h-20:45
- tuesday: 8h-20:45
- wednesday: 8h-20:45
- thursday: 8h-20:45
- friday: 8h-20:45
- saturday: 9h-17h
Through our Support Services, Gym, Cafe & Meeting Spaces we support the North Bristol community to keep it strong, resilient, and resourceful.
We are a charity made up of staff, volunteers and residents who work together to help to release power in our community. By working alongside residents in North Bristol our expert teams support communities to be strong, vibrant and resourceful through building health, wellbeing, learning, employment and pride of place.
We manage the Greenway Centre and The Ranch (Southmead Adventure Playground), providing inspiring and accessible community spaces for children, young people, families, adults, community groups, partners and businesses. They are both well-loved local venues and host popular community events throughout the year including the Southmead Festival and community pantomime.
Providing safe spaces for children and young people to flourish is essential to a healthy, vibrant and energetic community. We manage The Ranch (Adventure Playground & Youth Space). Our free, open access sessions for ages 8-18 are run by our Youth and Play team, supported by local Volunteers. Activities include sports, creative workshops, music, outdoor play, indoor play and hanging out. Working with partners across the City we ensure the voices of young people and children are heard. We are proud to be part of the Playful Bristol network. Our Link Forward team of Children’s Link Workers also offer a referral service for one-to-one and group sessions.
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Our fundraising focus is for children and young people. We need your help to keep our youth & play sessions running at The Ranch (Southmead Adventure Playground). We also need funds to put on events like the Southmead Community Festival - every penny counts.
Our comment from FitFit UK about Greenway Centre:
Welcome to Greenway Centre, a hidden gem located in Bristol, United Kingdom. This vibrant community hub boasts a warm and friendly atmosphere, excellent staff, and a wide range of facilities including a gym, nursery, meeting rooms, and a café that serves reasonably priced and delicious food.
Visitors appreciate the centre's accessibility and spaciousness, often highlighting the fun decorations and the diverse activities available for all ages. The Greenway Centre is well-regarded for its supportive environment and community focus, making it an ideal place for social gatherings, fitness classes, and events.
Although some users mentioned that parking can be challenging and that parts of the building may appear a bit run-down, the friendly and welcoming staff, coupled with the great value offered in the café, significantly enhance the experience. Many guests have enjoyed the lively atmosphere and expressed their satisfaction with the various classes and workshops available.
Key Highlights:
- Community-focused atmosphere
- Great staff and friendly service
- Variety of facilities including gym and classes
- Delicious and affordable café options
- Convenient location with accessible features
Overall, Greenway Centre is highly recommended for anyone looking to engage with their community, enjoy fun activities, or simply grab a bite to eat in a welcoming setting.
Greenway Centre: Opinions
Fantastic experience: Hidden gem
Fantastic experience: Ok
Fantastic experience: Visited the Independent nurse, parking is a struggle on a Monday so ended up parking on the road, but experience with IN was excellent, lovely nurses, knowledgable and professional, but also chatty and funny which made for a pleasant experience, would recommend.
Fantastic experience: Very warm and friendly place, great staff, great facilities, cafe, gym, nursery, hall, rooms. Fun decorations and big!
Fantastic experience: Nice and friendly
Fantastic experience: Greenway Centre was a great community hub. Helpful staff, lovely centre, and lots to do.
Fantastic experience: Good service
Fantastic experience: First time ever visiting the Greenway Centre to attend Southmead Festival. A lovely building with good accessibility and sign posts. Facilities for everyone and reasonably priced food and drinks.
Fantastic experience: Was ok
Positive experience: Very friendly
Fantastic experience: Great creative hub with a cafe, well worth a visit
Positive experience: Toilets and disabled toilet available, also has a cafe.
Fantastic experience: Great facilities, all the staff are super friendly and welcoming atmosphere. Also, a lovely cafe with nice coffees, veggie options and affordable lunches. Greatest sense of community I've felt in a long time.
Fantastic experience: Great church on Sunday mornings very friendly people and amazing worship music
Fantastic experience: Good for training
Positive experience: The space appears to be a bit Run-down
Fantastic experience: Lots of cozy rooms for hosting trainings and other events.
Fantastic experience: Went to bank.
Fantastic experience: Lovely atmosphere and great value cafe
Fantastic experience: Great place
Fantastic experience: All the Staff are patient, knowledgeable, and friendly.
Fantastic experience: Nice big space for dancing in.
Negative experience: Cafe in a community hub in the middle of a council estate , Falafel,Hummus ,Halloumi , and Vegan Really !! Food aimed at the “ Middle Class “ staff .The minions have the choice “Fish finger sandwiches” you can have a Ham and cheese toastie but not a Ham and cheese jacket potato All this catering to a minority The Chicken is Halal ! Being forced upon us . Where is our choice .Expensive too for the local community.
Fantastic experience: Great service and friendly staff
Positive experience: I went to a workshop and the facilities were clean and tidy.
Fantastic experience: Brilliant classes and lots of activities! I love Greenway Centre ❤️
Fantastic experience: I tried the classes for 3 weeks, now I'm a member. I love the dance classes. Very friendly and welcoming. Lots to do there. Highly recommended to anyone
Positive experience: Parking is a night mare But centre friendly .
Positive experience: Fun dance classes and good gym. I'd recommend mirrors for the classes in the main hall, and I'd love a Spin class.
Fantastic experience: Amazing place and it has a cool environment, the staff is so friendly
Fantastic experience: I have attended a few courses in the upstairs rooms. They are light and clean. The lights seem to give me migraines but that might just be all the concentrating. The café is well cute, sadly it is never open when I am there so can't speak to the food or drink but the pictures on the windows are lush and there are various seating options. It looks like the food is probably quite good but I am just going off the signs I saw when being nosy. The staff on the desk are always very friendly and polite. Toilets are nice and clean. Car park is big enough for my long wheelbase van although it does get busy and the skinny little lane you have to leave by is not spacious.
Fantastic experience: The cafe has impressive food really pleased with the taste and presentation of the food. Enjoyable visit.
Positive experience: I only go there to dance. It's one of my favourite events
Fantastic experience: Great for a kids party
Fantastic experience: Very friendly prices cheap a good experience
Fantastic experience: Friendly people Reasonable priced food Free carpark
Thanks Jane. Let us know more if you visit again.
Fantastic experience: The place has a real community feel and excellent cafe and meeting room. Staff are very welcoming and friendly
Thanks Sukeina, that's great to hear. Keep the feedback coming so we can keep improving things.
Positive experience: Small gim but nice place
Ah thanks Jolanta. It is small but it's a community gym - hope you found it friendly.
Fantastic experience: A wonderful place. Was fortunate enough to spend a week at Greenway Centre. Amazing place, amazing people, amazing community!
Positive experience: Dancing at the Greenway Centre was great fun. Lots of lovely people. Great music and well organised.
Fantastic experience: Great food at fantastically low prices
Fantastic experience: Great food and incredibly cheap will definitely be going again
Fantastic experience: Lovely place. Lots to do
Fantastic experience: Great for lunch break
Fantastic experience: Nice food and service with reasonable prices
Fantastic experience: Good Gym, Cheap and not too busy
Fantastic experience: Lovely welcoming place lots to do for all ages lovely community cafe
Fantastic experience: It's sooo friendly. Bit rough around the edges but man I love it. The gym is 19.99 a month with tons of classes you can book no extra charge. Honestly amazing. No pool obvs at that price.
Fantastic experience: Really great cafe food at a very reasonable price.
Positive experience: Need to explore it a little more - what I saw was good though and reception was very helpful.
Positive experience: A lovely area to dine and engage with others. Food is good but a little pricy. However, I must bear in mind that cost of living has gone up.
Fantastic experience: Great gym.
Positive experience: Lovely lively community centre.
Fantastic experience: Did training here. Plenty of parking, and helpful staff.
Positive experience: Lots of stalls selling different things and something for the grandchildren to
Fantastic experience: Nice clean gym Everything you need for a good workout
Positive experience: A little bit on the shabby side. The people were polite and nice enough. The cafe leaves a little to be desired.
Fantastic experience: I'm reviewing the covid vaccination Centre at Greenways as I cannot find a separate review board for this. Staff were friendly, efficient and organised. Should be kept open for as long as possible so children can get vaccinated quickly and easily.
Fantastic experience: Went here for a dance event and its a really good venue. Spacious hall, plenty of parking, and good facilities like bathrooms and changing rooms. Would come again :)
Positive experience: Nice coffee, selection hot and cold foods, reasonably priced. Handy meeting place.
Fantastic experience: Had training at the centre. The cafe was a great surprise. Tasty, freshly made food - large portion sizes
Fantastic experience: Great community venue supporting young people with clubs like DigiLocal.
Fantastic experience: This place is a little jem. It has all you could need
Fantastic experience: Really enjoy the monthly dance socials by Bristol Dance Experience, the hall is huge and everybody is really friendly. The alcoholic drinks are SOOO expensive!!
Positive experience: Decent dance floor. Good ventilation.
Positive experience: Friendly we knit & natter on Fridays 10/30 ___12/30
Fantastic experience: Great community centre. Gym, classes, community focused
Negative experience: Shame the tea was a small cup and not hot
Fantastic experience: Great use of an old school (and I remember it when it was a school - not that I actually went there) but they have retained the buildings and now have it run by a community trust There are rooms for hire and these can be used for all sorts of purposes from office work to training facilities - I think there is a section of AWP there too, as well as a covid vaccination centre - there is board up for the rooms that are hired out - so you know where to go Reception desk at entrance, and there is a café which provides good value snacks (bacon butty worth the money and plenty of bacon and good value of money) - drinks are avialabe too There seems to be several community groups that meet in the spacious café - great community asset and well run - there is a gym there too but have not used it or how to get access to it
Fantastic experience: Helpful lectures giving classes on helping people to cope with changes in life and help with advice on CV etc Place to meet up with people with different challenges in life and group chats.
Fantastic experience: Excellent and restorative sausage and bacon bap.
Positive experience: Clean. Tables well-spaced. Friendly chap serving. We were there at 10am and we were the only ones there! (A few more arrived over the next 30 mins, though)
Positive experience: Ok really but rooms a bit cold & they forgot the ordered tea/coffee.
Positive experience: Visited for rugby so did not use centre. Looks ok abit run down. But it a vital part of the community.
Positive experience: As I was here for an early morning meeting I'm not sure I saw this venue at its best. The reception staff although efficient weren't at all friendly. The general atmosphere wasn't relaxed even in the cafe, which is very large (maybe that's part of the problem) with few people in it, yet it was noisy. The table I sat at wasn't clean and had no menu. A strange visit all round.
Fantastic experience: Ideal location as a community hub in Southmead whether you just want a coffee ☕ or wish to join a fitness class.
Fantastic experience: It's not just a cafe or Gym. Because there is BMH, because I have mental health issues
Positive experience: Up and running... a light menu atm and great service
Positive experience: I went on a training course for work. An old ex school building has everything you need, including a cafe. It's always difficult to park here though.
Fantastic experience: Received my Covid injections here, great
Fantastic experience: Went there for my 2nd covid astrovenica jab,was really scared. A lovely lady Dr sat and chatted to me assuring me I didn't have to do it but also explained factual statistics so impressively I had the jab. Other than a sore arm I'm fine. Receptionists more than happy to arrange taxis for whoever needs 1. First class NHS.
Fantastic experience: Visited the greenway centre for my first covid jab when I first arrived the staff were very helpful the line to get in was very long but credit where credit is due the efficiency of all the staff got everybody in and out in no time very well done to all of the staff
Fantastic experience: Went here for my second covid jab the staff are friendly and polite
Positive experience: Variety of good healthy food at reasonable prices. Will certainly try again.
Fantastic experience: I had my covid jab there very friendly and welcoming
Fantastic experience: Visit was for covid vaccination - brilliant set up
Fantastic experience: Had covid vacation there. Staff were very efficient and helpful,
Fantastic experience: It's the first time I have ever been there and was only there to get my covid vaccination....can't fault the staff and volunteers doing the vaccinations, very friendly and professional.
Fantastic experience: Snooker room great.
Fantastic experience: I have just received my vaccination at Greenway. Very efficient organisation and very helpful staff
Fantastic experience: Good for having Clovis jab
Fantastic experience: Had covid vaccination today
Positive experience: New place for HeadWay. It is great here for Headway fun!
Fantastic experience: Very very efficient with the vacinations amazing. ThAnkyou.
Fantastic experience: Staff are really nice in there
Fantastic experience: Friendly atmosphere created by the homely environment and cheerful welcoming staff team and client base
Fantastic experience: I'm our doorstep, great community-based centre. Great gym and various classes. Good cafe with fab food and drinks. So much to do, something for everyone.
Thanks Annette. Have you tried the cafe too run by Cafe Des Amis? Opens 8:30am to 2pm on weekdays - nice food!
Positive experience: Nice food nothing special but a fair price
Fantastic experience: 1st time I have been here for years and they have done wonders with the place also nice and polite staff
Positive experience: Good attempt at feeding 30plus party at Chinese New Year
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