About the Arenas

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Blue Light Sports Arenas

Regional Adaptive Sports Centres supporting injured, sick and disabled emergency and volunteer service personnel, civil servants and armed forces, and their families. Providing opportunities within the local community for collaborative events bringing blue light and community groups together.

Mission Statement

To honour and empower our service heroes and their families by providing an inclusive, adaptive sports and wellbeing centre that supports recovery, builds resilience, and fosters community, ensuring that those who have given so much to protect others have every opportunity to heal, thrive, and live life to the fullest.

Project Details

Each centre will provide a base of operations for the region, deliver adaptive sports programmes, sports teams, and community based programmes to meet the needs of the sick, injured and disabled emergency and volunteer services, civil service and armed forces communities, their families and local residents.

The centres will be a dedicated, inclusive facility designed to support sick, injured, and disabled communities, through tailored physical activity, rehabilitation, and community engagement.

Each centre will combine specialist rehabilitation equipment, accessible sports facilities, and expert-led adaptive fitness programmes to help individuals regain strength, improve mobility, and enhance overall wellbeing. It will feature fully accessible sports and leisure activities, accessible climbing zones and crazy golf course, adaptive sports courts, and multi-use spaces for both physical and social activities.

Beyond physical recovery, the centres will foster emotional resilience and peer connection by creating a safe, welcoming environment where service workers and their loved ones can share experiences, build friendships, and access mental health support.

By integrating inclusive design principles, family-friendly amenities, and specialist coaching, the Adaptive Sports Centres will not only aid recovery but also celebrate the courage and service of those who protect our communities, ensuring they and their families have the resources, respect, and support they deserve.

Hiring the Centres

Sports clubs, organisations, businesses and charities will be able to hire the centres for events. With all proceeds going directly towards funded programmes to support the community within the region.

Blue LIght Sports Foundation is a charity and will offer charity rates to all eligible charitable organisations, as well as competitive rates to all others who wish to use the space for their events.

Our vision for the centres

Blue Light Sports Arenas will be able to provide a dynamic space for multiple uses, and will also host special events throughout the year to support many communities across the region. Here are just some of the ideas we have had to promote the site.

All images have been produced using artificial intelligence from the original site photos at Region 5 with all regional centres offering the same programmes (each site may differ in size and layout).

Images may not always provide a true representation of the space.

Main entrance off of the carpark which will have 100% accessible car parking spaces.

The sports arena will be accessible internally as well as via the main shutters for event days.

The outside area will feature an accessible BBQ and picnic area.

Key Features

Arena sports hall with a multi-sport surface, with raised fixed seating over storage rooms. The hall will also include a floor to ceiling accessible climbing wall.

A ground floor sports bar featuring tv screens, pool and snooker table, table tennis, darts and seating.

First floor staff office with a kitchen area and staff toilets, all accessible via a lift.

First floor conference room, which will be available for booking for businesses, charities and sports clubs.

First floor hobby and interest area and will feature a 3D print and laser cutting area for bespoke product design and manufacture.

A jungle themed accessible soft play area in the main hall with table and seating for families.

Special Events

Blue Light Sports will host special events throughout the year to celebrate sports participation of its members and the local sports clubs that use the centre, as well as hire the facilities to organisations, clubs, business and charities for events that support the local community, local emergency services, armed forces and their families, and national organisations that promote physical and mental health well-being through adaptive sports.

Conferences

Awards ceremonies

Business networking events

Emergency service shows

Wargaming tournaments

Bring and buy sales

Synthetic ice rink

RC car racing

Drone racing

Indoor circus

Indoor summer fayre

Indoor winter wonderland and Christmas market

Funding the Project

Each centre will cost approximately £2,000,000.00

With 14 centres across the UK in planning, the overall cost is estimated at £28,000,000.00

This level of funding is required to not only open the doors to each centre but also purchase all of the necessary sports installations, flooring and equipment, renovate the grounds to make every area accessible, as well as all of the licences, insurances, rates and staffing costs to provide a sustainable platform for delivering the adaptive rehabilitation sports programmes within the community for the entire region.

Below is a map of the United Kingdom, which has been divided into the Blue Light Sports Regions, with an identified location where we plan to open each centre.

Regional Hub Locations

Click on the region to view project details and progress

Region 1: London

Area Covered: Greater London

Proposed site Location: Yet to be selected

Region 2: South East

Area Covered: Hampshire, Kent, Surrey, Sussex, Thames Valley