Information about St Johns Sports Centre

13 Malvern Rd
WR2 4LE, Worcester
+441905429900

Opening hours

  • sunday: 8h-21h
  • monday: 7h-22h
  • tuesday: 7h-22h
  • wednesday: 7h-22h
  • thursday: 7h-22h
  • friday: 7h-20h
  • saturday: 8h-17h
Freedom Leisure manages St Johns Sports Centre in partnership with Worcester City Council. Our aim is to "improve lives through leisure", providing affordable, inclusive and sustainable facilities that the whole community can enjoy. We offer a large range of different facilities so no matter what you enjoy doing, we will have something for you. Our facilities include two gyms, group exercise classes, sports hall, dance studios, elevate fitness studio and coffee shop.

Our comment from FitFit UK about St Johns Sports Centre:

St Johns Sports Centre is a well-equipped sports facility located in an ideal area, offering a clean and welcoming atmosphere for fitness enthusiasts. The staff is friendly, helpful, and creates a positive environment for all users.

Key Features:

  • Excellent range of classes, including popular sessions like 'Body Pump' and LBT, which many members adore.
  • Great facilities, including well-maintained gym equipment, a sports hall, and outdoor pitches available for hire.
  • Friendly and accommodating staff who are keen to assist users in their fitness journeys.
  • Affordable membership options with added benefits such as access to other sports centres within the Freedom Leisure group.
  • Regular cleaning routines to maintain hygiene standards, especially crucial in the current climate.

Suggestions for Improvement:

  • Some users have reported issues with equipment maintenance, suggesting that prompt repairs are needed for broken machines.
  • Busy afternoons can lead to overcrowding, particularly with younger users dominating equipment.
  • Parking can be limited, so it's advisable to arrive early.

Overall, St Johns Sports Centre provides a fantastic space for fitness and sports, making it a great choice for locals looking to stay active.

St Johns Sports Centre: Opinions

4.2/5 (93 Opinions)
Taz Beekeeper 9 months ago

Positive experience: Staff lovely, classes excellent should have made more use of the classes. However, I joined to use the gym but got fed up of waiting for equipment whilst the school children sat on their phones, between sets instead of being considerate to other gym users. I will not be renewing my membership.

St Johns Sports Centre

Hi Taz, Thank you for your feedback. This will be passed onto our operations team.

Oli Yad 10 months ago

Positive experience: Ideal location but not enough car space

St Johns Sports Centre

Thank you for your review.

h1tchiker 10 months ago

Positive experience: This is a fantastic GYM/sports complex with a clean and friendly atmosphere, the staff are mostly helpful, cheerful and greeting. Unfortunately the weights/GYM side is some what ruined with young children (respectful for the most part) hogging equipment in groups, sat on equipment using their phone and not allowing other patrons to use the equipment. If more was perhaps done to deal with this issue the GYM would get 5 stars

St Johns Sports Centre

Thank you for your review! We will pass your feedback onto our operations team to review.

Frankie Boyd 1 year ago

Positive experience: Very helpful staff.

St Johns Sports Centre

Thank you for your review Frankie!

TxtMeerkat1 1 year ago

Negative experience: Equipment doesn't appear to be cleaned..... ever. Equipment is outdated. Water fountains are broken. Place needs a refurb asap

St Johns Sports Centre

Thanks for your feedback. We are sorry to hear you did not enjoy your experience. We do however have a daily cleaning rota which includes the gym equipment and currently both of our water fountains are in working order.

Jen D 1 year ago

Positive experience: This gym is well equipped and has excellent sports facilities available to hire for those who have a membership. It is a relatively quiet gym, which means that machines are not accessible and there is less pressure from others, if you prefer a less competitive gym environment.

St Johns Sports Centre

Thank you for your review Jen.

paul McConnell 1 year ago

Positive experience: Excellent gym with loads of good classes

St Johns Sports Centre

Thank you for your review Paul! Glad to hear you are enjoying our facilities!

Kathy 1 year ago

Positive experience: Always some equipment not working.

St Johns Sports Centre

Hi Kathy, Thank you for your feedback.

fiona walker 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Great team

St Johns Sports Centre

Hi Fiona, thanks for your kind comment! We are very proud of our team and the services we provide!

Beatrice Payne 1 year ago

Positive experience: Friendly staff, always happy to help

St Johns Sports Centre

Thank you for your review!

Dean Hawker 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Great facilities and really friendly staff. The classes are awesome!!

St Johns Sports Centre

Thanks very much for your 5* review Dean!

Bill Riley 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: I really enjoy the classes at the St John’s Sports Centre especially Megs “Body pump” on Monday and Nicks LBT class on Thursday. The Reception Staff are brilliant as well. Well done Freedom Leisure.

St Johns Sports Centre

Thanks very much for your 5* review Bill!

Mark Lester 1 year ago

Positive experience: The coffee was okay and the staff were polite.

Ethics Leisure 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Helping millions get healthier by providing innovative, health and wellness products and experiences for everyone.

Sam Webb 1 year ago

Negative experience: Cheap and cheerful but equipment outdated. Staff are extremely miserable and unhelpful.

kudakwashe zimbudzi 1 year ago

Positive experience: Great facility

Evelyne Jauneau 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Really good atmosphere and helpful staff. I have booked a badminton court several times, you can borrow the rackets and if you are a member it works out at less than £6, not bad for an hour with 4 people playing. It gets really busy and you have to book in advance.

St Johns Sports Centre

Thank you for your great review Evelyne!

Paige Daniels 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Had a children's party here and it was really good, the staff were really helpful

St Johns Sports Centre

Thank you for your review! We are very pleased to hear your children's party was really good!

Rauf Shah 2 years ago

Positive experience: Good place

Robin Austin 2 years ago

Negative experience: Quite expensive and half the gym equipment is out of order. Have spoken to one of the duty managers who blamed the terrible maintenance company. Not good!!

xinlin lu 2 years ago

Positive experience: Good location next to the bus station but doesn’t have swimming pool

RU 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great place.

St Johns Sports Centre

Thanks RU for your 5* review!

m cman 2 years ago

Negative experience: The one star is just for the gym. The low row has been out of action for about 5 weeks the leg curl about 4 weeks and today I see the chest press is broken god knows how long that will take to repair. The low row still hasn't been repaired 7 weeks out of action leg curl 6 weeks and chest press 4 weeks.

St Johns Sports Centre

Thanks for your feedback. If you would like to speak to somebody about this issue, please call us on 01905 429900 or speak with our management team during your next visit.

Kim Sengul 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great place lovely staff and plenty of variety of classes

St Johns Sports Centre

Thanks Kim!

Morgan de Bruler 2 years ago

Positive experience: Too many kids use this facility who do not put weights back. Barbells with plates on left on floor. Benches with liquid (sports drinks?) on and general disregard for equipment. It's often treated like a youth club! #instageneration ‍♂️ The area used for floor exercises with mats could definitely be utilised better. Once you get a spot people are walking over you to get to badly placed bins and spray etc. Punch bag shouldn't be there either. It's an essential part of a gym. Please fix

St Johns Sports Centre

Thank you for your feedback- we are currently implementing our new junior code of conduct that should improve the gym experience for all users during busy periods.

hannah Falcon 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: The staff are lovely, make you feel welcome, you don't feel judged, one of the best experiences feels good to work out with no judgement from others,

St Johns Sports Centre

Hi Hannah, what a lovely review! Great to hear you are enjoying using St Johns Sports Centre!

Ryan Cox 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Good venue for sports and recreation activities.

William Lewis 2 years ago

Positive experience: Staff hear where some what helpful but hats if to all of the members there who helped me out with everything including all of the difference workouts I can do and what I can do to Improve my form

Ana Maria 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: I go there every other day. It's lovely. Staff is very nice. You've got everything you need, bathrooms are clean and tidy. Equipment is clean and works properly. Haven't tried the classes yet.

St Johns Sports Centre

Thank you for your review!

Rafaqat Mahmood 2 years ago

Positive experience: Very good atmosphere

St Johns Sports Centre

Thank you for your review!

Neil upfield 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Lovely staff

St Johns Sports Centre

Thank you Neil!

Татьяна Шепель 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Спасибо за возможность заниматься бесплатно украинцам,отзанималась 3 месяца, купила абонемент до конца года

Leslie Ramirez 3 years ago

Negative experience: Awful customer service. I called yesterday as they have been sending me many messages with offers and I finally decided subscribe to the gym and the lady that answered the phone (Jacqueline) was not nice to me and hung up the phone on me 3 times. Disgraceful. I called again to ask for her name and another one answered me refusing to give me their names. She even asked me "Why you want to know my name?"... IDK.... Because I want to know who I am speaking to Maybe??? Sally the 2nd. lady finally identify herself. Seriously what a terrible customer care service. I didn't get the offer obviously.

Альона 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Чудовий спортивний комплекс, є безліч занять на будь-який смак.

Stu 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Nice gym lots of equipment friendly staff

Game blaster 2 2 3 years ago

Negative experience: Its a good gym it’s just that 2 of the machines have been broken for a long time one has been broken and it’s says it will be fixed as soon as possible REALLY ? Come on it’s said that for over 3 months now

Aisha Begum 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Friendly sports centre. Clean and convenient with some fantastic classes. Edwin Rodriguez's Salsa Fit is amazing fun, Core express is excellent and Pilates with Alicia is fantastic.

St Johns Sports Centre

Thanks very much for your review!

Lizzie Carless 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great classes and lovely staff

pam Geisler 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Love this place, staff are do friendly, lots of classes and they are good

David Jackman 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Good facilities, usually just play badminton in the main hall (over 50s Friday 4-6pm,). Membership a tad complicated but that is Freedom Leisure's fault! Limited area for post activity coffee but it is a sports centre . The staff are excellent in preparing the courts and really welcoming and efficient at reception.

Jess Jenkins 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Easy access gym, parking available, staff very supportive and help when needed. Plenty of gym equipment available

Leslie Butts 3 years ago

Positive experience: A well run sports centre.

J I 3 years ago

Positive experience: Great astro, little expensive though.

John Oakley 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Excellent facilities and friendly heplfull staff

MegaJaro1975 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Lovely place and people

Jacqui John 4 years ago

Positive experience: St Johns sports centre may not be the most up to date or swanky sports club in Worcester but it has everything you need to keep fit and stay healthy. Customer service is brilliant and membership fees low. No complicated contracts. Very flexible and added bonus of being able to use other sports centres and swimming in the Freedom Leisure group as part of your membership. Personal trainers if you want them. Easy booking online for classes. Wide range of opening times accessible for all and no monopoly of any gender or age group. Good parking and also outside facilities to book along with a major sports hall. Clean and well organised. I'm a mature user and never feel unwelcome or looked down on. My 14 year old grandson has recently joined. £180 for the year to access everything. He loves it. What's not to like give it a go. You'll be glad you did.

Doris Rozells 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Always very clean and friendly staff

TheCakeIsNotALie 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Small simple little sports center with a great student discount and plenty of facilities.

Tom Amos 4 years ago

Positive experience: The staff are super helpful and there is always someone around if needed. They have cleaning products readily available for all equipment to be wiped down before and after use, and masks are required when in the communal areas. The equipment is what you'd expect in any commercial gym, they have all the standard weight machines, loads of cardio equipment and plenty of free weights. Also facilities available such as a gym hall for basketball, football and badminton among others and an outdoor 4g pitch that can be hired.

Steve Kaos 4 years ago

Positive experience: Great gym, love the classes, 1st time back since February too!

Maria Fuller 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Really friendly staff. Lovely courts to play on. Well ventilated. Very clean and safe.

Hazel Barrett 4 years ago

Positive experience: Good facility. Friendly, helpful receptionist.

Maria Bell 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Staff are very friendly and helpful. Place was always clean pre-covid shutdown so I had no worries returning. Even better now as classes are smaller. There is a silver lining to the covid'19 cloud.

Cameron Robbins 5 years ago

Negative experience: Usually a good gym. Since re opening you are only allowed a one hour slot which makes me feel very rushed, causing parts of my workout to be missed out due to other people being on the machines. Also the air conditioning downstairs is either broken or not being used (can’t seem to get an answer out of the staff). Some of the other cardio machines have been moved into the hall, which gets very hot without air conditioning. Booking ahead is another struggle having to sign in every time and select a time starting once every hour and a half which is hard to plan ahead. Overall usually a very good gym, but at the moment has me contemplating switching to another.

Jean Luckham 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Felt very safe. Plenty of hand gel.

Bernard Kelly 5 years ago

Positive experience: Staff are available but not in your face. Friendly gym with a good variety of equipment and range of classes.

Christopher Jeffries-brindley 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Excellent gym well serviced by staffs fitness

Jay Ski 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Astro is fab

qt.pie.alfred 5 years ago

Positive experience: Staff are amazing, location is amazing, but it's so small. There's hardly any space to do exercises without machines, there are hardly any variations with the weight machines and is basically a cardio gym.

Michael 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Cool place. Came here for a few athletics events and there is a lot of space including a sport hall, gym, restaurant and more. May be few issues with tech but staff are also caring. All equipment is provided making it a good place to relax.

Andy Cowie 6 years ago

Positive experience: Decent, reasonably new sports centre. Wide range of indoor activities. Two good 5 a side pitches.

Joe Richard 6 years ago

Positive experience: Friendly staff. Free parking. Good gym facilities. Membership a little pricey compared to others in the area, and can get overcrowded at peak times due to the size.

Stéphanie bint-Dafydd Edwards 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Everything you couldn't wish for and not too pricey.

Caleb 6 years ago

Positive experience: LEGIT EVERYTHING IS ALWAYS BROKEN sue has batty tho

Anthony Matthews 6 years ago

Positive experience: OK for a local gym

Nikki Toulson 6 years ago

Positive experience: Very helpful

Graham Godber 6 years ago

Positive experience: Clean and tidy, nice staff. I'm sure the badminton courts are shorter that usual though...

Amritash Lahiri 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Well equipped gym with friendly staff

Caitlin Maxwell 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great facilities and customer service

Hanny 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Very good place to get healthy. Classes are great and good equipments in the gym.

Damian Gladysek 6 years ago

Positive experience: So so table tennis very expensive

Ben Stokes 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Excellent friendly gym. Good facilities

Richard Corns 6 years ago

Negative experience: Over priced compared to others Many lockers don't work. Showers not working. Miserable staff (not all mind). The only thing going for it is location. Saturated with school children late afternoon. Better off elsewhere.

Rupert Proctor 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Reasonably priced and not to busy, free parking at the rear and good facilities. Kept nice and clean.

Dennis Haden 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Frendly and Helpful

The Life Cover Experts 7 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great facilities offering a range of sports including gym access.

Samantha Reed 7 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great place. Clean and tidy.

jon bowerman 7 years ago

Negative experience: Restaraunt is so overpriced its painfull

Hayden Mason-Bedford 7 years ago

Positive experience: Decent gym, nice indoor rooms, lots of fitness classes and 2 very good and well priced 5 a side porches

Chloë Bourne 7 years ago

Positive experience: Helpful staff and clean facilities. Very reasonable price for combined membership. Sometimes the gym is used for classes so is OOB which can be a little annoying but there is another cardio gym so not the end of the world.

Lawrence Pearson 7 years ago

Positive experience: Went for a dance competition. Floor ok but too quiet.

Nicky Young 7 years ago

Fantastic experience: Excellent facilities

Alexander Milosavljevich 7 years ago

Fantastic experience: Nice people ....I must try doing a little as often as possible

Marc Cawte 7 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great facility

Gary Allen 7 years ago

Positive experience: Clean, tidy and nice size gym. Just a shame the broken equipment stays broken so long

The Sauce 7 years ago

Fantastic experience: Nice place to play sports friendly staff...

Mark Jennings 7 years ago

Positive experience: Great gym facilities. Good classes available.

Charlie C 7 years ago

Positive experience: Good quality and clean premises

Chl0rr Rs 7 years ago

Positive experience: Nice gym, quite small though and very busy during peak times

Liv freeman 7 years ago

Fantastic experience: Really good it has really good things gor my school best sports gym ever

Nigel Wilesmith 7 years ago

Fantastic experience: Really enjoying, since joining!

Dustysmate 8 years ago

Positive experience: Needs a sauna

Tom Preston 9 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great

Leave your opinion about St Johns Sports Centre:

1 = Poor 5 = Excellent

Other gyms that may interest you

5 (3)
City of Worcester Gymnastics Club

City of Worcester Gymnastics Club

See address and contact details
Eden's Warehouse, Willow St - WR1 2NL, Worcester
+441905620425
4.7 (33)
Anytime Fitness Worcester
Anytime Fitness Worcester

Anytime Fitness Worcester

See address and contact details
Basin Rd - WR5 3GB, Worcester
+441905709247
5 (9)
Blueprint Training

Blueprint Training

See address and contact details
14C Weir Ln - WR2 4AY, Worcester
4.4 (78)
Fitness4Less Worcester (now Topnotch Gyms Worcester)
Fitness4Less Worcester (now Topnotch Gyms Worcester)

Fitness4Less Worcester (now Topnotch Gyms Worcester)

See address and contact details
Cathedral Square, 3 High St - WR1 2QE, Worcester
5 (2)
Sports Centre

Sports Centre

See address and contact details
1 Carriage Cl - WR2 6AE, Worcester
5 (15)
Yoga 7 St Swithun's
Yoga 7 St Swithun's

Yoga 7 St Swithun's

See address and contact details
The Trinity - WR1 2PN, Worcester
+447971004234
4.1 (166)
PureGym Worcester
PureGym Worcester

PureGym Worcester

See address and contact details
Unit 11, St Martins Quarter, 11 St Martin's Gate - WR1 2DA, Worcester
+443444770005
5 (87)
Box Fitness LTD

Box Fitness LTD

See address and contact details
28 The Tything - WR1 1JL, Worcester
+441905611399
5 (3)
Worcester Amateur Boxing Club

Worcester Amateur Boxing Club

See address and contact details
21 Spring Ln - WR5 1AU, Worcester
5 (2)
Browns Gymnasium

Browns Gymnasium

See address and contact details
Unit 11b Shrub Hill Ind/Est - WR4 9EL, Worcester
+441905613044
ReidyFine Fitness

ReidyFine Fitness

See address and contact details
13N, Worcester Enterprise Centre, Shrub Hill Industrial Estate, Shrub Hill Rd - WR4 9EL, Worcester
+447496156116
4.6 (65)
Vertical Limit

Vertical Limit

See address and contact details
Shrub Hill Rd - WR4 9EL, Worcester
+441905613044

Publish your gym in our directory for free

If you manage a gym and you want to appear in our website, send us the information about your gym so we can include you in our directory.Appearing in our directory is free!

Request a free listing

Find the best gym for you

Find a gym to get fit and improve your health.