
Gateshead Leisure Centre
Indoor Entertainment Centres · Gateshead, Tyne & Wear
Open now — closes 8pm
What’s there
- Café on site
- Free parking
- Baby changing
- Buggy friendly
- Birthday parties
Access & inclusion
- Step-free access
Only facilities we’ve confirmed are listed — anything missing here we simply haven’t checked, rather than know to be absent.
Gateshead Leisure Centre has three pools: a 25m pool, 12.5m teaching pool, and 12m small pool. There's a soft play area for children aged 1 to 12, with 1.5-hour sessions; an 8-court sports hall; a fully-equipped gym; fitness classes in three studio rooms; a squash court; steamroom and sauna; and a café. The centre runs a swimming school offering parent-and-child classes, pre-school sessions, stages 1–7, teen and adult lessons, competitive swimming, and SEND sessions, with free swimming included for lesson-booking children.
Stuff to take with you
The things people wish they’d packed for a day out like this one.
- Refillable water bottleMost places will fill it for free.
- Snacks that survive a rucksackCheaper than the café, and buys you twenty minutes.
- Wet wipes
- Small first aid kitPlasters solve more days out than anything else here.
- Spare socksThe single most reliably useful thing on this list.
- Spare outfit
- Dummy and a spare
- Audiobook or story CD
- Plasters
- Muslin cloths
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