Hackney Space Centre
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The Hackney SPACe Sports Centre, (Sport and Performing Arts Centre) is actually called SPACe. It's a Time Out Magazine Award Winning Leisure Centre in Hackney
, London
, England
.
SPACe http://www.hackneysportscentre.com is part of Hackney Community College (see Hackney College
) and was opened in February 2001 following grants from Sport England
on the basis that it would become the venue for Centres of Excellence in Basketball
, Netball
and Cricket
. Its main hall (recently dedicated to the late Malcolm Williams, whose work and vision were instrumental in getting SPACe built) can accommodate a range of indoor sports, and was the home venue in 2006/07 for the professional basketball
team London United, who moved there from Brunel University
in 2006.
SPACe is also home to Hackney Community College Basketball Academy
and Cricket Academy programmes. It is also home to many basketball teams that play in the London Metropolitan Basketball League (LMBL), the largest regional basketball league in the UK. SPACe also has a gym / weights facility housing Olympic free weights and CV equipment as well as 3 dance studios. One of these has been named after the late Margaret Shepherd, who was highly respected for her work in teaching and developing performing arts at the nearby Hoxton Hall
.
The main hall has tiered seating for around 600 people. SPACe is managed by Lee Perkins who has been instrumental in the sporting development of the centre.
London Borough of Hackney
The London Borough of Hackney is a London borough of North/North East London, and forms part of inner London. The local authority is Hackney London Borough Council....
, London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
.
SPACe http://www.hackneysportscentre.com is part of Hackney Community College (see Hackney College
Hackney College
Hackney College is sometimes used to refer to Hackney Community College, a popular further education college in London Borough of Hackney...
) and was opened in February 2001 following grants from Sport England
Sport England
Sport England is the brand name for the English Sports Council and is a non-departmental public body under the Department for Culture, Media and Sport...
on the basis that it would become the venue for Centres of Excellence in Basketball
Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
, Netball
Netball
Netball is a ball sport played between two teams of seven players. Its development, derived from early versions of basketball, began in England in the 1890s. By 1960 international playing rules had been standardised for the game, and the International Federation of Netball and Women's Basketball ...
and Cricket
Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
. Its main hall (recently dedicated to the late Malcolm Williams, whose work and vision were instrumental in getting SPACe built) can accommodate a range of indoor sports, and was the home venue in 2006/07 for the professional basketball
Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
team London United, who moved there from Brunel University
Brunel University
Brunel University is a public research university located in Uxbridge, London, United Kingdom. The university is named after the Victorian engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel....
in 2006.
SPACe is also home to Hackney Community College Basketball Academy
Hackney Community College Basketball Academy
The Hackney Community College's Basketball Academy is a basketball programme, located in the London Borough of Hackney in the UK originally designed to engage young people vulnerable to exclusion from education to gain qualifications through engagement with a sport in which they demonstrated talent...
and Cricket Academy programmes. It is also home to many basketball teams that play in the London Metropolitan Basketball League (LMBL), the largest regional basketball league in the UK. SPACe also has a gym / weights facility housing Olympic free weights and CV equipment as well as 3 dance studios. One of these has been named after the late Margaret Shepherd, who was highly respected for her work in teaching and developing performing arts at the nearby Hoxton Hall
Hoxton Hall
Hoxton Hall is a community centre and performance space in Hoxton, at 130 Hoxton Street, in the London Borough of Hackney.A grade II* listed building, the theatre was first built as a Music hall in 1863, as MacDonald's Music hall. It is an unrestored example of the saloon-style...
.
The main hall has tiered seating for around 600 people. SPACe is managed by Lee Perkins who has been instrumental in the sporting development of the centre.