**Stantonbury has Outstanding Swimming & Gym Facilities**

I had the privilege of learning to swim at Stantonbury Leisure Centre, and I can’t praise it enough! The swimming teachers are fantastic—patient, knowledgeable, and incredibly supportive. They played a huge role in helping me gain confidence in the water, which ultimately led to me completing my first Ironman 70.3. Their dedication to every learner makes all the difference.

The life guards deserve a special mention too. They are always present and attentive, ensuring that safety is a priority at all times. Their commitment to being available every day gives an added sense of security and shows how much they care about their work and the swimmers' well-being.

The gym is also a great space and plenty of options for all fitness levels. It’s clean, spacious, and never feels overcrowded, making it a great place to work out.

Finally, the reception staff are always welcoming and friendly, happy to help with any questions or bookings. Overall, Stantonbury Leisure Centre offers an amazing experience for swimming, training, and fitness. Highly recommended!

Stantonbury is not only a great pool to swim in from a learner to master swimmer it has some of best swimming teachers I know of.
The reception staff and lifeguards are also great .
Both my sons have had lessons there and they've progressed very well, with my oldest son already having county times at 10.
Very experienced , friendly and attentive .
Serena , Katrina and team even helped me with my own swim teaching course
Don't send your children anywhere else for lessons .

Good to be playing Badders in the main hall,but the other unit round the back should be opened up asap after works completed, update to the original post, NO BADDERS in the back hall as is now for basketball,be nice if they fix the lighting to the car parks area's,someone's going to trip,as no lighting there,builders in other car park may have cut the street light cable BUT should not be in darkness when walking back to your car. Maybe the bosses here only work in daylight so wouldn't know about this fact.
Update for Jan 2025.
After speaking to management in November 2024 about the condition of the badminton nets(so large the holes,you can get a shuttlecock thru them) they still have not been changed, people pay good money for a court,so peeps be aware not good on providing decent gear.

have been sending my children to swimming lessons at Stantanbury Leisure Center since January 2024, with one child in Stage 1 and the other in Stage 2. While the teachers—Katerina, Julie-Ann, and Gracely—were great, our recent experience has been extremely disappointing.

Without any prior notice, the center suddenly removed my children's names from the system, claiming they hadn’t been paid, despite the fact that they had been charging us extra. When we tried to re-register them, we were told to pay immediately and come back the next day before 2 PM to get booked. However, when we returned as instructed, we were informed that they were fully booked, and to make matters worse, they refused to refund the payment we had made the previous day.

This is completely unacceptable, and we are left feeling frustrated and cheated. The lack of transparency and the poor customer service is very disappointing, especially for a service we had trusted for so long. I would not recommend Stantanbury Leisure Center based on this experience.They also charged us for a extra month tha we did not attend. The receptionist was extremely rude she asked us a question and when we were giving our response she said I'm not speaking to you I'm speaking to finance. Another receptionist said over 100 times we can't give your children free swim lessons.

We're as they cancel lessons after every week which they don't bother about because the don't refund for the lessons . So won't recommend it to anyone.

Very disappointing visit. Please do not take your child or adult if they have any SEN. After a therapy pre visit to Stantonbury Leisure with the manager Connor to discuss the needs of a client of mine with autism who is 21 we discussed the reasonable adjustments required- quieter session ideally with no children therefore wanting to come midday, during a lane swim session, we were told as long as try and keep the session as structured as possible that should be fine. We completed a risk assessment- and there was 5 members of staff with this client, 3 competent swimmers 2 of them therapists in the pool and 2 floating carers on the sides. We arrived, got changed and got in the pool. We explained the above to the lifeguard-Jordan, he suggested the end empty lane and advised ideally try swimming up and down- explained it may take our client a little time to warm up to this as our client can swim but hadn’t been swimming for a while and it was a new environment, he said he understood and had a nephew with additional needs (please bare in mind it was very quiet there were 5 lanes open and there was no more the 6 people swimming across these lanes the whole time we were there). 10 minutes in our client had walked up and down the allocated lane 3x he had started to dip his shoulders in and lean into the woggle and tread water we were definitely building confidence and trust in the water. The operations manager Leigh arrived on pool side and started speaking with carers on pool side, I got out the pool to ask what the problem was, Leigh explained that we had to leave the session as this was lane swimming, and the people who access this session have to be competent swimmers, and only continuously swim up and down the lane during the session and if the leisure staff were unsure of the clients swimming abilities, they would want the client to have had completed swimming lessons to a certain level before coming swimming. I checked all the boards and the website, I couldn’t see this documented anywhere and wasn’t what we had been told on the pre visit. I explained that this was very disappointing and that swimming up and down is the ultimate aim but will take time with this client. He suggested we come on the weekends at the open swim session if we wanted to do what we had done today, I explained we had avoided these sessions as there is normally lots of children and it’s a lot more busy and our client struggles with auditory filtering and crowded unpredictable environments. Needless to say unfortunately we will not be returning, it is especially disappointing that this facility is on the clients door step and as a therapy service we had hoped to build future positive connections and working relationships with this leisure facility.