🏠 Indoor & outdoor0–11–33–55–88–1212–16School holiday activitiesSeasonal opening🆓 Free entrySensory-friendly sessionsEducational
What’s there
- Café on site
- Free parking
- Baby changing
- Buggy friendly
- Birthday parties
Access & inclusion
- Step-free access
- Relaxed / SEN sessions
- SEN friendly
Only facilities we’ve confirmed are listed — anything missing here we simply haven’t checked, rather than know to be absent.
The Foundation of Light is Sunderland AFC's official charity, established in 2001 by former chairman Sir Bob Murray CBE. Based at the Beacon of Light in Sunderland, the foundation delivers over 40 programmes supporting more than 20,000 people annually across the North East. Offerings include holiday courses (from £10), evening and weekend football (from £3 per session, ages 1–16), disability programmes, schools programmes, and multi-sport activities. The Beacon of Light facility features 5-a-side and 7-a-side football pitches, badminton, basketball, table tennis, pickleball, walking football, and a coffee shop. Every penny earned at the Beacon is reinvested into the Foundation's community work tackling social isolation, unemployment, food poverty, and poor physical and mental health.
Activities run during school holidays and school term time only.
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.
- Sun hat
- Woolly hat
- Kitchen roll
- Dummy and a spare
- Sick bagsYou only forget these once.
- Spare carrier bagFor the wet things. There are always wet things.
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