Information about Sawston Sports Centre

19 New Rd
CB22 3BP, Cambridge
+441223712555

Opening hours

  • sunday: 9h-16h
  • monday: 7h-22h
  • tuesday: 7h-13h, 15h-22h
  • wednesday: 7h-22h
  • thursday: 7h-13h, 15h-22h
  • friday: 7h-21h
  • saturday: 8h-17h

Anglian Leisure Sawston aims to provide an inclusive environment where the whole community has the opportunity to participate in a range of activities designed to promote health and well-being.

We are open during term time and School holidays, with the Centre being closed on Bank Holidays. Please see the pool, fitness suite and class timetables for up-to-date times and classes.

Our comment from FitFit UK about Sawston Sports Centre:

Welcome to Sawston Sports Centre, your local hub for health and fitness located in Cambridge, UK. This centre offers a range of facilities designed to cater to your fitness needs.

  • Great swimming pool and well-equipped gym.
  • Diverse classes including yoga, pilates, and aqua fitness.
  • Friendly atmosphere with welcoming staff.
  • Affordable pricing and plenty of parking available.
  • Disabled friendly with a good selection of equipment.
  • Various sports courts including badminton and squash.

While the centre has much to offer, some visitors have reported issues such as:

  • Staff occasionally being rude, especially towards younger gym-goers from nearby schools.
  • Facilities that are showing signs of age and wear, needing renovations and better maintenance.
  • High occupancy during peak hours leading to difficulty accessing equipment.

Overall, Sawston Sports Centre is a valuable community asset that provides a wide array of activities and services that promote health and fitness for everyone.

Sawston Sports Centre: Opinions

4.1/5 (71 Opinions)
Harriet Parsons 9 months ago

Fantastic experience: Great swimming pool and good facilities.

Zane Dennington 9 months ago

Negative experience: Very good gym with very nice atmosphere. All problems sorted with machines and what not sorted quickly and well looked after equipment. Though staff are sometimes rude and short tempered especially toward children who attend sawston village college and are often abusing their power on children. Opening times are often wrong on timetable and has led to turning up and facilities being closed. Overall a poor customer experience

Raymondo Baynes 11 months ago

Negative experience: As a pupil of sawston village college I like to come to the gym arfter school and is a relatively good gym but there are way too many people and i can't use a machine. Also staff think they're are teachers for example getting told off for being on my phone and also being not allowed in the gym with a school top on.

C C 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Fully equipped gym, at reasonable price

Rosalyn Johnson 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: I use the gym and pool here. It is a good priced gym, friendly atmosphere and close to my home. I love the Aquafit class - although the changing rooms are cramped with only 2,individual rooms for changing, when busy.

Madelie Bower 1 year ago

Positive experience: Great place to come and unwind if fitness is your thing not too crowded they have quite a bit available including parking at the front door. Disabled friendly and just mind of children when passing through it is on the school grounds.

Barry S 1 year ago

Positive experience: Old sand astro, but slippy. Hopefully, once the renovation has been done. It will be more aesthetically pleasing.

Chrissie Alger 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Lots to do, but hard to get booked in as it's so busy.

Guy Buncombe 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: I've begun going to the gym at the SSC, as part of my cardiac rehabilitation program, seeing as I'm knock knock knocking on heaven's door with a heart condition. The gym is really well equipped with all sorts of instruments of torture, and Ms CB who runs the program is brilliant! At a glance, I can see there's a swimming pool, a squash court, basketball court and gawd knows what else there. So if you're interested in improving your health, I wholeheartedly recommend a visit to the Sawston Sports Centre.

cavtas 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: I play badminton regularly. The court is set up if booked ahead. Staff are very friendly

Valentina Adina 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: This is not only a gym, they also have classes like yoga, pilates, bootcamp, swimming pool etc. I’m member for long time and never been disappointed. Good staff and also, lots of different activities to do. Quality - price = good :)

Thomas Wardley 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: A wonderful asset to the community, great staff, great classes and a pool we keep coming back to.

Charlotte Slaymaker 2 years ago

Negative experience: Avoid for children’s swimming lessons at all costs!!!! Staff are rude and belittle the children when they think parents aren’t watching. Also do not give any feedback relating to child’s progress. Swimming teachers were horrible and when I complained the manager was useless!

nadia koutar 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Good

Christine Quinn 2 years ago

Positive experience: Took my grandson to Sawston sports centre to play football,staff great, shame not many children turned up to play.

Amyas Phillips 2 years ago

Negative experience: Another “swimming” pool where you aren’t allowed to practice diving in from the side of the pool. They might as well ban entering the water altogether. Then they would be really safe. But although this bureaucratic nonsense is annoying enough, what really bugged me was their lazy and unhelpful response to a perfectly reasonable request to practice dive entries with my son. They could easily have said “there’s a lane, use that for 20 minutes” but instead went with “no, now go away”. Great job guys.

Gareth Reeman 2 years ago

Positive experience: Bit of a maze inside and not clear enough signed for new ppl visiting. The complex is very large and well equipped.

Ben Johnson 3 years ago

Positive experience: If you are booking a private hall for sports with friends, its a good place, just the halls are slightly smaller than im used to.

Derek Ho 3 years ago

Negative experience: Can i give zero star?? 1. Rude email to complain the customer overtime to use the facilities. However, the booking already extended before the end of initial booking. When they found that they are in wrong side, then try to spin the focus to other bookings. 2. Ask a female to go the their court via male changing room 3. Only start to prepare the court (setup the net) when you arrive and it take 10 mins from your 1 hour booking. 4. Aged facilities AVOID!

Gary Coxon 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Took our grandson to the football fun factory. Slick operation. Expert guidance and fantastic experience. Even though he'll never be as good as grandad it gives him light at the end of the tunnel. Fair play.

Jackie Field 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Friendly staff.Easy booking system

Michelle 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Just had a wobstacle party for our daughters 10th birthday. Staff were Amazing, friendly and great with the children. Some children were really anxious to start with but by the end of the session were all confident and having a great time. Highly reccommend. Thanks to all staff involved.

Scott Reid 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: THE GYM FAMALAM! Let’s gooooooo

Julia Goodwin 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Brilliant

Autumn3n 4 years ago

Positive experience: Plenty of facilities, swimming gym and court hire. Plenty of parking

Stuart Field 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: 1st time playing squash there. Really enjoyed

Bones 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Very good sport club

Christine Eskandary 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Very good - lots of open doors and windows to provide fresh air, to keep us safe while Covid is still present. The venue in the city would be safer and nicer in my view if they would only open a few doors to let in some air. Hand sanitiser can only do so much!

John Yates 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Everything in 1 location. Great amenity

chrissy lawrence 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Brilliant sports centre and all the staff are lovely

K k (kev) 4 years ago

Negative experience: the equipment is bad.. all the badminton nets have holes in them. floors are slippery..

Juan Arenas Marquez 4 years ago

Positive experience: Good to be back at the gym

Matt Casey 5 years ago

Positive experience: Astro pitch is quite sandy, but cheap so can't complain too vigorously.

Lewis 5 years ago

Negative experience: Nasty changing rooms very dirty. The pool is ok though.

theospursking10 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Always a good experience

Mario Martin 6 years ago

Positive experience: Old machines, facilites a little bit worn out, clean, small swinming pool with few available hours. Long opening hours, many activities.

Geoff Axe 6 years ago

Positive experience: Good place to get a work out

Stuart Monteith 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Nice pool, enjoyed swimming there during the family session with my daughter.

Robbie Whitlock 6 years ago

Positive experience: Good little gym that is rarely overly busy and has a decent selection of equipment. Pool is a little small and dated and does get a little busy at times.

Hannah 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Badmonton courts, squash courts, swimming pool, gym. Not too expensive a and easy to book!

James Clarke 6 years ago

Positive experience: Basic, but ok and cheap!

JoeRP17 6 years ago

Positive experience: Did a course there. No complaints

Kinjal Dave 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Plenty of car parking

n pateman 6 years ago

Positive experience: Kids love the crazy kids club. And it's a great little venue to hire for kids parties

sebastian anderson 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Helpful staff surprisingly quiet just wish there were more than 2 benches for weights as both being used.

Michael Lee 6 years ago

Positive experience: Used pitches good size friendly staff

lloyd walker (LLOYDY) 7 years ago

Positive experience: Great sports centre friendly people

Elaine Bryan 7 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great gym, friendly staff, good range of equipment

Sarah G 7 years ago

Positive experience: Bit small, bit grubby, but what matters is it's functional and safe, and a good community resource.

jonathan gilbert 7 years ago

Positive experience: Nice gym and swimming pool

Sam Cimelli 7 years ago

Fantastic experience: Showers, pool, squash court, gym and much more.

Phil Ridgewell 7 years ago

Fantastic experience: My gym loving it

Peter Dowsett 7 years ago

Positive experience: Small sports centre with wonderful staff

Richard Gregory 7 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great local sports centre.

Janie Morris 7 years ago

Positive experience: Great to find a pool locally where I can swim. Got all that you need...lockers,showers,change room, lifeguards, swimming equipment for the kids (boards etc), long enough and deep enough for a good swim if you want, shallow end is about a metre deep.... I'll be back, every weekend.

Jo Smith 7 years ago

Positive experience: A bit dated, but staff are helpful and facilities are fine.

Anna C 7 years ago

Positive experience: Helpful staff team, great swimming lessons for kids. Building and facilities looking a little tired though.

Kirsty Townsend 7 years ago

Positive experience: Good value. Quality class instruction. Squash court ceiling has squares missing or about to fall down. Changing room very dirty floor.

aled charles 7 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great Saturday morning fun

Steve Sinclair 7 years ago

Fantastic experience: Sawston tang soo do karate Monday 7.00 until 8.30...go

Russ Ramsey 7 years ago

Positive experience: What a good place to go with nice friendly people

Reece Collen 7 years ago

Positive experience: Great staff & facilities. Open to everyone, regardless of ability level

M Tamvakis 7 years ago

Positive experience: Good classes and swimming lessons. Good activity parties for kids. Staff helpful. The building is in desperate need of refurbishment, especially the toilets and changing rooms.

Jane Russell 8 years ago

Fantastic experience: Lovely swimming pool

Pat Kennedy 8 years ago

Positive experience: Enjoyed my swim - changed

Jane Frost 8 years ago

Positive experience: Great gym, friendly staff, good range of equipment and weights

Christopher Bauer 8 years ago

Positive experience: Cheap.

Oscar Wimms 8 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great local sports centre. I regularly use the squash court, it's regularly avaliable and well made

E. Hovsepyan 8 years ago

Positive experience: Good, family sports centre

Sujith Madhavan 8 years ago

Positive experience: Reasonable fee and has most stuff

Amit Nair 8 years ago

Positive experience: Use it for swimming.. a bit dirty, but perfect for our village!

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