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The club now operates beyond a multi-sports club encouraging local businesses and clubs to use the excellent range of meeting, conference and party facilities.
We look forward to welcoming you to our club.
Here at East Grinstead Sports Club we have some
of the best and most comprehensive sports facilities in the South of
England.
An International Standard Water Based Artificial Turf Pitch, a County
Standard and very scenic Cricket Square, a Sports Hall that hosts some of
the country’s top Indoor Hockey, as well as Cricket Nets, Badminton,
Netball, Volleyball - we have every sport covered.
Looking for a venue for a Corporate Sports Event? With these sports
facilities, our unique banqueting venues, and our proximity to Gatwick and
the M25 we can offer you the perfect venue in the South East.
Our full compliment of sports facilities is listed below, any of which
can be booked for a one off event or block bookings. Please
click
here for more information.
Exciting new facilities - The G4S Netball Centre
We are very pleased to announce that the Nine Floodlit Netball courts are now open!
Three of the courts are double marked with tennis lines and are available for hire. The top three courts have a ring-beam structure which will enable them to be covered in future.
Water Based Pitch
Completed in August 2002 with the help of a substantial National Lottery
Grant, it is one of the newest and best pitches in the country. In it's
short life it has so far played host to (amongst others) our Men's
National League team, the 2003 Men's & Ladies Premiership Finals, the U21
County Championships and numerous festivals. Constructed with raised
banking all around it is the ideal 'amphitheatre' for playing or
spectating.
As well as hockey, FLOODLIT CRICKET and BOWLS are also played on here.
Sand Based Pitch
This was East Grinstead Hockey Club's original pitch. It is now primarily used for football training, and as an overspill for hockey matches on a Saturday. We are a venue for Brighton & Hove Albion FC Football Academy.
Sports Hall
Our 4 Badminton court Sports Hall has a sprung wooden floor and under-floor heating. The floor was completely refurbished in May 2008 and is available for hire for: Badminton, Cricket Nets or Indoor Matches, Indoor Football, Indoor Hockey, Netball, Volleyball.
Cricket Square
Our Cricket Square has been used for County Second XI Cricket and National Junior Matches, as well as our own Sussex Premier Division side. We are the perfect venue for Corporate Cricket Days with our bar and balcony looking out onto this most picturesque of grounds. Visitors last year included Old England, the MCC & Lashings, with the latter sides returning this season for Corporate and EG Cricket Club events.
The Gym
We have a fully equipped gym, with a variety of cardio-vascular and resistance machines together with free-weights.
Squash Courts
We have two glass backed courts that are available for hire.
Jogging Trail
A unique feature of East Grinstead Sports Club is the 1km long wood-chip jogging trail that winds through our own woods.
A brief history...
In 1989 East Grinstead Cricket Club and East Grinstead Hockey Club merged to create East Grinstead Sports Club. Both clubs had a very long tradition of playing sport in the town but could see the benefits of joining forces to mutual advantage.
With the merger it was possible to sell the Cricket ground and move up to the Hockey Club who owned its own land. The proceeds of the sale were spent on building a new pavilion, laying an artificial hockey pitch and creating a new cricket square.
As the Ladies Hockey Club also played at the old cricket ground it was also possible for them to join the new club and enjoy the new facilities. There were already two squash courts at the hockey club site so the merger turned the club into a true multi-sports club.
Further expansion of the sports club happened in 1997 when the Felbridge Badminton Club joined adding a fourth club.
In 2002 a lottery grant of over £1 million was received towards the £1.7 million total cost of providing a new water-based all-weather hockey pitch, a new fitness suite, a jogging track, new changing facilities together with improved office accommodation.
We were delighted to welcome Meridian Archery Club and Saint Hill Blues Football Club to our Sports Club umbrella in 2005.
East Grinstead Sports Club is now a registered Charity. It was formed in 2002 to safeguard the future of the member clubs and the facilities at the site.
