International - University of Teesside

MethodistLinthorpe Road – Sundays at 10.30amContact Martin RamsdenTel: 01642 813089Email: martin.ramsden@methodist.org.ukQuakerThe Friends’ Meeting House, Cambridge Road –Sundays at 10.45amContact Michael WrightTel: 01642 851919Email: counsel@fish.co.ukScandinavian Social Centre and Church2 Park Road South, Middlesbrough TS5 6HBTel: 01642 819878German Lutheran and Seamen’s Mission188 Borough Road – first/third Sunday at 4.00pmTel: 0131 667 1619Greek OrthodoxSt Columba’s Church (next to Sainsbury’s supermarket) –first Sunday at 4.30pmContact Vassos GeorgioTel: 01642 458168HinduThe Hindu Cultural Centre, 54 Westbourne Grove,North Ormesby, MiddlesbroughTel: 01642 218428 (office), 01642 219626 (priest)IslamicUniversity Designated Islamic Prayer Room – please contactthe Chaplain for details on 01642 342708, or arepresentative of the Islamic SocietyJamia Mosque, 133 Waterloo Road, MiddlesbroughTel: 01642 245855Abu Bakr Mosque, 9 Park Road North, MiddlesbroughTel: 01642 873305Central Mosque, 30 Southfield Road, MiddlesbroughTel: 01642 254585JewishReformed Synagogue, DarlingtonTel: 01325 252234SikhThe Sikh Temple, 23 Lorne Street, MiddlesbroughContact Rupinder SinghTel: 01642 250125Mobile: 07702 087116There are also Students’ Union societies based on religiousfaith that organise events, celebrations and discussion.Check which societies are available at the Students’ Unionreception desk.SPORT AND RECREATIONAt Teesside, we organise a full programme of sport andrecreational activities for our students. Whether you havealways wanted to have a go at a particular sport or arealready a committed, talented sportsperson, we can offeryou top-quality facilities and professional advice.Our £6.5m two-storey complex for sport – the OlympiaBuilding – includes a large sports hall, with room for sixbadminton courts, a climbing wall, squash courts andspectator seats. Students on sport-related courses will alsohave access to the learning and teaching facilities in the suiteof exercise laboratories.A Sports Membership Card, available from the receptiondesks in the Olympia and Sport and Recreation Buildings for£60, entitles students to use the University's sports facilitiesand provides discounted rates at a number of local sportsvenues. Facilities on the campus include a sports hall,a well-equipped fitness studio and a sauna/steam suite.Inductions are available for new users and trained staff canprovide computerised fitness evaluations and give advice onexercise programmes.There are local facilities for indoor tennis, swimming, watersports, athletics, pool and snooker.Surrounded by excellent natural resources, including thebeautiful North Yorkshire coastline and North York MoorsNational Park, the University is ideally placed to offer a rangeof outdoor activities. The University runs sessions that enablebeginners to experience activities such as ice-skating androck climbing. In addition, the nearby Tees Barrage offers aninternational-standard white-water slalom-canoeing course.If you want to keep up your sport while studying, theUniversity operates a Sports Bursary Scheme for eliteathletes competing at a national level or with the potentialto do so. There are also opportunities to undertake arange of short sports coaching awards and local communityvolunteering opportunities.Tel: 01642 342267Email: sport@tees.ac.ukUNIVERSITY OF TEESSIDE 25