Additional spaces

As well as the QEII Leisure Centre, DMU also offers offer additional space for DMU's student activities, including sports clubs and societies.

Beaumont Park is situated on the outskirts of Leicester, which has recently seen £3.4 million worth of investment. Home to the DMU Football, Rugby, Lacrosse and American Football. The venue also boasts FA standard grass and artificial pitches as well as a recently extended and refurbished clubhouse.

Facilities

  • 3G sports pitches
  • Grass pitches
  • Changing facilities
  • Clubhouse
  • Meeting room/Classroom space

The space provides the DMU sports teams' access to two all-weather pitch for training and matches. The space is also used to support local football as well as community engagement projects.

Adult usage
  Full price  Partner price*
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3G pitches
Full £110 £90 £88 £68
Half £65 £45 £54 £34
Third £50 £30 £43 £23
Club night     £310 £210
Pay and Play £3 £3 £3 £3
Grass pitches (matches only)
11v11 £90 £70 £75 £55
Junior usage
  Full price  Partner price*
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3G pitches
Full £88 £68 £72 £52
Half £54 £34 £46 £26
Third £43 £23 £37 £17
Club Night     £255 £155
Grass pitches (matches only)
11v11 (under 13-18) £67 £47 £57 £37
5v5 (under 7 and 8)   £25   £20
Room hire costs
   Full price  Partner price 
Term time Non-term time Term time Non-term time
Meeting room £20 £15 £15 £11.25

 

*applicable to teams with leasing agreement in place, DMU recognised partners and organisations or groups acknowledged by DMU and FA/RFU etc. charter standard clubs.

Contact

We welcome your views if we are doing something well please tell us about it, likewise if there's something we're not doing quite so well. It is important to us to hear your views so we can provide you with the highest quality service possible.

Address:
Beaumont Park
Bennion Road
Leicester, LE4 1ES

You can contact us by email at beaumont.park@dmu.ac.uk or by phone on +44 (0)116 366 4849. Alternatively, you can fill in our contact form.

The eight court sports hall enables a varied programme of activities to be on offer to our members and paying guests throughout the day with the following sports available to users of the centre:

  • 5-a-side football
  • Basketball
  • Badminton
  • Table tennis
  • Netball
  • Volleyball
  • Short tennis

Booking times

Use of the sports hall is free for some members and is competitively priced for all others though booking is essential.

Booking slots are available:

  • Monday to Friday 6.30am-10pm
  • Saturday 8am-8pm
  • Sunday 9am-8pm

Courts can be booked by members six days in advance of play and by non members one day in advance.

All non-member sessions must be paid for at the point of booking. Members are allowed to book courts and classes on-line but will be charged the external fee rate should they not attend the booking. All court bookings are currently for 45 minutes unless stated otherwise. This allows time for set up of equipment between sessions.

Back-to-back bookings are not permitted, it is not permissible to book two courts at the same time.

During term time there is limited availability to the sports hall due to student sports teams using the space as a training venue.

Members can manage their sports hall bookings through our online booking system.

Equipment hire

You can hire equipment for any activity you wish to play (ask at the leisure centre for details). The cost is £1.50 per item, unless otherwise stated. Non members can hire equipment also but must pay the hire fee.

Parties and special events

For events and activities which fall outside the normal are usage for external hire more information is required to give an accurate price. Contact us to register interest and a member of the team will get back to you shortly to discuss your booking requirements

The Watershed is situated on Liberty Island and home to DMU Sport and the DMU Rowing Club. We have invested in the facility to offer additional space for DMU's student activities including sports clubs and societies.

With classroom spaces and a multi-purpose sports hall, the spaces meet students' needs and also provide an ideal venue for events.

The facility also hosts intra-mural and DMUactive recreational sports opportunities.

Facilities

  • 3 court sports hall
  • 3 small studios
  • 2 meeting rooms
  • Base for DMU Sport
  • S&C Suite
  • Rowing machine suite

The building is predominantly used to aid participation in sports and activities as a social and well-being space, provide training space for the DMU competitive sports teams who participate in British University College Sport and local leagues.

The Watershed pricing structure
Area Price per hour
Sports hall £30
Studio 2 £20
Studio 3 £25
Meeting room 1 £20
Meeting room 2 £20

Contact

We welcome your views; if we are doing something well or not so well, please tell us about it. It is important to us to hear your views so we can provide you with the highest quality service possible.

Our address:
The Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Leisure Centre
50 Duns Lane
Leicester, LE3 5LX

You can contact us by email at leisure@dmu.ac.ukor by phone on +44 (0)116 250 6403. Alternatively, you can fill in our contact form.