Activities for children & young people

South Staffordshire Council's leisure centres provide a range of activities available for children and young people to take part in during school holidays. 

Aspire Activity Camps

Children's Active Camps will be on offer at Codsall and Wombourne Leisure Centres throughout the school holidays.

• Sports-based camps
• For 5-14 year olds
• Half day and full day sessions (8am-4pm)
• Early bird and sibling discounts available
• Discounts for emergency service workers
• Loyalty scheme allowing you to earn points
• Halloween activities, inflatables, nurf showdowns and tourament days!

For full details, to access the parents guide and to book, click here. 

Wolves

Wolves Soccer School are holding sessions at our leisure centres for children aged from Year 1-7.

2-day courses are £45 and 3-day courses are £65

For more information email footballdevelopment@wolves.co.uk  or to make a booking, click here

Training Courses 

The South Staffordshire Training Academy operates various courses throughout the year which are delivered at the council’s leisure centres. Courses provided include National Pool Lifeguard Qualification courses, Swimming teacher award and certificate courses and aquatic helper courses. For full details click here. 

You can also earn UCAS points for completing the National Pool Lifeguard Qualification. 

The leisure centres are also regularly recruiting and available jobs can be found here. 

Swimming

The leisure centres all provide additional public and fun time swimming sessions during the school holidays.  School holiday swimming timetables will be available on the swimming webpages. 

Cheslyn Hay Leisure Centre Swimming

Codsall Leisure Centre Swimming

Penkridge Leisure Centre Swimming

Wombourne Leisure Centre Swimming   

Swimming Lessons

Swimming lessons are also available as part of the South Staffordshire Swimming Academy. Find out more here. 

Active Youth Scheme

Discounted gym access for young people

Young people aged 13-16 years can enjoy discounted and supervised gym access as part of the Active Youth scheme. (This scheme is available all year round including term-time). Advanced booking is required. 

• Young people can attend the gyms unaccompanied, during any of the dedicated ‘Active Youth’ times – these sessions are all supervised by a qualified gym instructor
• Young people will be required to undergo a free gym induction during their first ‘Active Youth’ session – this must be booked in advance
• A parent/guardian will be required to sign a declaration giving permission for their child to participate
• Young people can attend the gyms at any time when accompanied by a participating parent/guardian

Active Youth Gym times

Visit the website to view the gym timetables:

Cheslyn Hay Leisure Centre gym 

Codsall Leisure Centre gym 

Penkridge Leisure Centre gym 

Wombourne Leisure Centre gym 

Clubs

The leisure centre are all host to a variety of clubs which operate at the leisure centres on a weekly basis. For details, click on the links below:

Cheslyn Hay clubs

Codsall clubs

Penkridge clubs

Wombourne clubs

Discounted Fitness Memberships for Students and Apprentices

Young people aged 16 years+ and who are in full time education or training through an apprenticeship are eligible to join the leisure centres with a discounted membership package. For full details, click here. 

Save 10% with the Leisure Advantage Card

The leisure centres now offer an advantage card for children and adults which give users 10% off individual activities. Find out more here.