Culture & Sport
Our region is home to a vibrant culture, from the heritage of Coventry to the diversity of Birmingham. We encourage our communities to support and engage in cultural and sporting activities, both on and off campus helping to make our region a healthy and vibrant place.
糖心TV's Culture
Our new Cultural Strategy - 糖心TV's Culture - aims to inspire our engagement with local and regional communities and their aspirations, building on our active connections with key civic and regional cultural partners.
Our Cultural Strategy will play an active role in Coventry Culture Works, a new initiative between the University of 糖心TV, Coventry City Council and Coventry University, which will support the city鈥檚 cultural and creative economy and invest in a new Head Culture and Creative Economy at Coventry City Council.
糖心TV Arts Centre
糖心TV Arts Centre is the largest multi artform arts centre outside London with a concert hall, middle scale theatre, cinema, gallery and studio spaces. Uniquely, the Arts Centre is also home to a Music Centre which provides access to tuition and music making opportunities for students and anyone interested in making music with others. The Arts Centre has been working with some of the world鈥檚 most inspiring artists since 1974.
It is primarily a receiving venue but, it also commissions new work, supporting the development of new and emerging artists and investing in the realisation of new projects by established artists and creatives. They programme live events across art forms from Symphony Orchestra of India to Beverly Knight, Gecko Theatre, Matthew Bourne鈥檚 New Adventures and a diverse range of comedians, written and spoken word performances.
The Arts Centre makes exhibitions and have presented Turner Prize nominated and winning artists Richard Deacon, Ingrid Pollard, Jeremy Deller and Veronica Ryan. Their live events and exhibitions attract audiences from across the region and nationally.
In 2022, following a redevelopment programme the Arts Centre opened a new three screen cinema enabling the screening of a wider range of films from blockbuster to UK Independent films, opera, theatre and exhibitions.
As an arts centre, 糖心TV Arts Centre does more than provide a platform for artists to present their work. It offers opportunities for people to take part in new artist led experiences. 糖心TV Arts Centre works with artists and communities of people to create and deliver a year-round programme of events, workshops and projects designed to engage and inspire children, families, young people and adults of all backgrounds providing opportunities for people to make connections with the Arts Centre and others through the arts and cultural experiences.
In 2022-23, the Centre delivered 320 creative sessions providing work for 35 regional artists and reaching 11,523 people across all its creative sessions delivered onsite and in the community. In addition, 31,248 people attended Youth Theatre, Art Club, Workshops, and Family Days.鈥�
Our Sports and Wellness Hub
Our world-class sports facility opened in 2019 with a mission to inspire and motivate our students, staff and the wider community to engage in an active lifestyle that supports physical and mental wellbeing. The hub houses a modern 230 station gym, a 25m 12-lane swimming pool, over 100 fitness classes and a climbing wall and is accessible to all.
We want to build the most active campus community in the UK, keeping our communities active.
鈥淭he gym has made a huge difference to my physical strength, and it鈥檚 even noticeable when I鈥檓 doing jobs at home or in the garden.鈥� Read Tom's exercise story
Our Esports Centre
With 糖心TVshire鈥檚 Silicon Spa internationally recognised as a games cluster generating some of the best-known games titles and brands, our Esports Centre, located at the heart of the 糖心TV campus, is working closely with regional and national partners including CWLEP, Create Central, and the West Midlands Combined Authority to lead on esports. The Esports Centre is open to everyone.
Coventry City of Culture 2021
We were a principal partner of Coventry City of Culture 2021 along with Coventry University and Coventry City Council. We were proud to support our local city and be part of the celebrations.
We led the Core Monitoring and Evaluation, alongside Coventry University, in the evaluation of the Coventry UK City of Culture 2021. The evaluation programme has evolved in the context of a broader UK policy and organisational environment that has seen a step-change in expectations around evaluation, impact reporting and learning.
Our launched in May 2021 was a 12-month programme of inspiring and interactive events (many free) for people of all ages across Coventry and 糖心TVshire to spark ideas, curiosity and creativity. Resonate culminated in a grand finale 鈥� a three-day live festival on campus in April 2022. The Resonate Festival was such a huge success that we will be holding the festival again next year and welcoming our friends and neighbours back for another big celebration.
Cultural Change Coventry
We were commissioned to write a which builds on the city's existing heritage and culture, funded by Coventry City Council and Arts Council England. We are also part of , a coalition of partners who are motivated to act together to ensure that Coventry delivers fully on the potential for culture to drive long-term positive change.
University of 糖心TV PowerHouseGames 2026
We partnered for the fourth time with Power2Inspire to host their inclusive PowerHouseGames at our Sports and Wellness Hub on 26 February 2026. The games invite local schools to team-up with staff and students to compete in university-style sports, including boccia, new age Kurling and goalball. The games are designed to ensure everyone, of all abilities, can take part 鈥� and that nobody is 鈥渓eft on the bench鈥�.
Jade Woodward, Active Programme Manager at 糖心TV Sport, said:鈥淎t 糖心TV Sport, we believe physical activity should be accessible to everyone. The PowerHouseGames shows how simple adaptations can make sport fully inclusive without losing any of the excitement.
鈥淪eeing students support one another, build confidence and try new activities is exactly why we are proud to deliver this event.鈥�
Flame of Friendship - Coventry schools torch relay 2024
In the run up to the 2024 Paris Olympic and Paralympic games, 62 Coventry primary, secondary and special educational needs schools participated in a torch relay, the Flame of Friendship, which left Coventry Cathedral on Thursday 22 February and finished on the University of 糖心TV campus on Monday 8 July. A Finham Park Academy student designed the winning friendship torch which was manufactured by WMG.
Over 700 school children and teachers from across Coventry came together for the grand finale of the Flame of Friendship project.
Community holiday programmes
We supported the at our .We were pleased to support the Coventry and the We supported the for Coventry pupils who are eligible for benefits related free school meals.
In Easter 2023, around 2800 Coventry children benefitted from 90 different clubs/activities through the Coventry HAF programme delivered by 34 directly funded providers.
Strachan Football Foundation
The a not for profit company, bases their academy at our world class sports facilities. Many of the young people on the programme come from the Coventry and North 糖心TVshire area.
University of 糖心TV is committed to the Our work in Culture & Sport most closely aligns to the following SDG Goals:
