National Volleyball Centre
With £3.5million of central funding from both the UK Government and the UK National Lottery in the run-up to London 2012, in 2007 Volleyball England signed an agreement to accommodate the National Volleyball Centre within the Kettering Conference Centre. Made possible with a grants from Kettering Borough Council, Northamptonshire Enterprise Ltd, and the East Midlands Development Agency, the four year agreement came into place on the opening of the centre in November 2010.
The 2,000 square metres (22,000 sq ft) facility houses both National Volleyball Centre, as well as home of Volleyball England's national men's and women's volleyball squads, and several national competitions.
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