At the heart of the Middlebrook development is the new Bolton Arena. Situated in pride of place alongside the award-winning Bolton Wanderers Reebok Stadium, the arena provides a stage for local, regional, national and international events.

Bolton Arena is the first purpose built indoor tennis tournament venue in the UK, offering facilities to stage regional, national and international events.

Catering for the borough's recreational needs - the arena provides a major community tennis programme, athletics, soccer, netball, hockey, basketball and a range of fitness and sports performance provision second-to-none. The unique development of the Sports Education Theatre on the arena's first floor offers new coaching and development in sport for schools, colleges, clubs and individuals as never before. Utilising existing and emerging technology there is record/replay analysis of actual and simulated sports activity. Live links to the world of sport and sports development enables coaching and master classes to be shared between the arena and, for example, Australia, America and host organisations across Europe and the world. Broadcast quality facilities allows the Theatre to host major sports productions, seminars and workshops taking a British lead on a global stage.

The main arena building is elliptical in shape and provides a high quality, recognisable national landmark of which the whole community, locally, and nationally can be very proud.

Some of the Arena's facilities include:

• A state of the art leisure complex for community use and the stars of sport.
• Facilities at the complex are for everyone and are available on a pay and play basis, with no membership fees.
  

Indoor:

• Eight acrylic tennis courts for public use or one indoor show court for tournaments, with two practice courts and up to 4500 seats.
• State-of-the-art 15,000sq ft. Health & Fitness Suite including Steam Room, Jaccuzi and Sauna.
• Aerobics & Dance Studio
• Sports Education Theatre
• Human Performance Unit
• Conference & Meeting Room Facilities
• Bars, Catering & Social Facilities
• Creche Facilities

Outdoor: (All floodlit)

• 6 outdoor clay tennis courts
• 400 metre 6/8 lane athletics track
• Multi-use games area
• A full sized Association Football Pitch
• Car & cycle parking
• Basketball court

Working in partnership with Bolton Wanderers and the Emerson Group, it has always been an aim to provide major community sporting facilities as part of the overall development. The Sport England and LTA funding has brought this vision to reality. It enables our young people to enjoy accessible facilities and services alongside an existing range of quality leisure outlets around the borough.

Bolton Arena really caters for children with a varied choice of activities.

For more information visit: Bolton Arena