Sport Northumbria
Student and staff sport at the University is managed by Sport Northumbria. Throughout the year our sports clubs operate at local, regional and national level, it runs classes and fitness programmes, organise inter-University and intra-University sport and offer a wide range of options to assist in following a healthy life-style. 
All sport services within the University are co-ordinated by Sport Northumbria, including existing and proposed sports facilities, the extension of an already impressive sport development programme for students, staff and community and a significant education and training programme for the regional and local sporting community.

The services are delivered in four main areas:
1} Health and Fitness (including Exercise Classes)
2} Recreation Sport
3} Sports Clubs
4} Performance Sports
 

These responsibilities cover the widest range of involvement from trying physical activity and exercise for the first time, to seeking World Class Performance. It is very conscious of the differences of motivation and ability and do our very best to accommodate all levels. Sport Northumbria's ambition is to offer a wide range of opportunities for a healthy and active lifestyle. It also seeks to provide ongoing opportunities for club-based sports and the development of an athlete's potential.
 

The University provides an important contribution to the operational and staffing costs of our Sport Northumbria programme although our ability to develop and take on new work is dependent on Sport Northumbria's capacity to generate revenue. Students, staff and community members all pay a very competitive charge for accessing programmes and facilities and these charges are in line with our widening access agenda. Over the last five years the University has earned a reputation for providing excellent support to its students and for offering an increasingly varied and ambitious programme. There have been many successes from international representation to increased levels of recreational involvement.

Over the next five to ten years Sport Northumbria needs to become more responsive to social trends, better at communicating to our target markets and increasingly aware of the importance of our customers. Everyone using the services It provides is asked to appreciate that our ambitions are considerable and that it welcomes assistance from students and others as volunteers, administrators and coaches.
 

Sport Northumbria has an outward looking and unique relationship with the North East community, largely based on the Government's and the University's "third Mission for Universities". This programme encourages higher education to work with industry and the community, alongside the teaching and research activities. Sport Northumbria subscribes to a number of partnerships, including Northumberland Sport and Tyne and Wear Sport, makes a contribution to specific sports development programmes (including basketball, fencing, football, netball and rugby union) and undertakes research and consultancy largely based around sport development and high performance sports.