The Nationwide Badminton Centre is the house of badminton in England. The house of the efficiency crew, the place the most effective expertise is nurtured and developed to compete and symbolize England and Nice Britain on the world stage. Like every owners, we wish to be home proud. That is the place we showcase our sport, share our sport’s heritage and welcome everybody taken with badminton, well being and health.
Badminton England are very excited to be investing in a phased refurbishment of the Nationwide Badminton Centre to make sure we’re well-positioned to encourage the badminton group, additional develop our beloved sport and assist our elite athletes carry out on the very highest degree sooner or later.
In November 2023, our badminton base was rightly recognised by UK Sport for its contribution to the preparation of elite Olympic and Paralympic athletes; the Nationwide Badminton Centre was one in all solely eight venues throughout the nation to be awarded the standing of ‘Accredited Elite Coaching Centre’ – celebrating its position in serving to athletes to realize their full efficiency potential.
Whereas pleased with that achievement, we wish to try for extra. We imagine the house of badminton on this nation may be higher, bolder and produce a lot extra to so many.
We already present world-class badminton courts open to golf equipment, coaches and the broader badminton group who can play on the identical surfaces as our Olympic and Paralympic athletes. Located beside the serene Lodge Lake in Loughton, the suburban website is dwelling to public {and professional} health club amenities, health suites and a spin studio, assembly rooms, a preferred three-star 25-room lodge, a sports activities bar, a small restaurant and the Nationwide Badminton Museum – all open to the general public.
Nevertheless, the constructing is outdated and has grown drained since its final modification almost 15 years in the past. Now it’s time to put money into its public-facing amenities to higher meet the calls for of each new and present audiences, to keep up and enhance the aggressive surroundings for our elite athletes and to encourage the following technology of badminton gamers and aspiring athletes.
We goal to make sure very important income streams are maintained as they considerably contribute to the price of delivering Badminton England’s long-term technique to the nation’s badminton group. The newly-renovated website will entice native companies, new court-users and gym-goers and all those that wish to meet colleagues, share a espresso with mates or household, host a working lunch or get pleasure from a drink within the night.
We wish to make the Nationwide Badminton Centre a fantastic place to work, relaxation and play.
A refurbished reception space will create an inclusive, welcoming first impression, our new restaurant and bar space will cater for all types of occasions – on a regular basis conferences or huge, daring features – whereas areas can even be created for many who wish to change their workplace or their research at dwelling for a relaxed, relaxed working surroundings. The Nationwide Badminton Museum, in the meantime, may have its personal identification – a reimagined area balancing the historical past and heritage of badminton with a smooth, trendy seated space for all to get pleasure from.
The health club will probably be modernised with new cutting-edge tools to be put in all through, the altering rooms will ship a breath of recent air, gentle, vibrant and ethereal with a contemporary really feel and there’ll even be a brand new outside area, a courtyard from which all who go to the Nationwide Badminton Centre can benefit from the British summer time…when it decides to reach!
Structurally, the constructing will retain its authenticity. However inside, components of a new-look Nationwide Badminton Centre are anticipated to excite all who’re welcomed by means of its doorways. And, aligned with our strategic inclusivity targets, these renovations will enhance the power’s accessibility to make sure badminton throughout the Nationwide Badminton Centre actually is a sport for everybody.
Development work on the refurbishment is ready to start this month and be accomplished by the tip of 2024. Disruption will probably be saved to an absolute minimal so we hope no Nationwide Badminton Centre-users will probably be too inconvenienced. And, by means of common communication with our key stakeholders, we’ll share updates with you, our badminton group, because the staged refurbishment makes progress.
Inviting. Inclusive. Inspiring. We’re all the time aiming to ship extra to our badminton group. We sit up for welcoming our members to the new-look Nationwide Badminton Centre in 2025 and past…
