Trinity Academy Phase 1 – Bangholm Sports and Outdoor Centre

  • Front of the brick building with tree lined car park
  • a stone bench with "Bangholm Trinity" carved into it stands in front of the brick building looking into the community room
  • Building from the car park, trees and bicycle rack
  • View of the building from rugby field
  • outside of the community rooms with glazed wall
  • Front of the brick building with tree lined car park
  • Front of the brick building with tree lined car park
  • Front of the brick building with tree lined car park the outdoor learning workshop is shown
    Exterior architectural photography of Bangholm Outdoor Centre, Edinburgh
  • main entrance sculpted stone artwork
  • Architectural photography of Bangholm Outdoor Centre

As part of the Council’s Wave 4 Programme, work is currently underway to redevelop Trinity Academy.

Phase 1 of the project involved the construction of a new sports building at the Bangholm Recreational Grounds which opened in 2022.

The centre provides excellent new PE facilities for the school as well as improvements to the existing playing fields. The building features a four-court sports hall, gym hall, dance studio, fitness suite, classroom and changing facilities. Outside retains the grass pitch and a refurbished 2G sand dressed pitch. The facilities are designed to meet the curricular and extra-curricular requirements of Trinity Academy as well as supporting local hockey and rugby clubs and providing sports and outdoor learning opportunities for local primary schools.

  • Waiting area with grey soft seating that can be moved to create different layouts
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  • Waiting area with grey soft seating that can be moved to create different layouts
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  • corridor beside fitness suite with slogan "if it doesn't challenge you, it won't change you"
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  • Bright fitness suite with open central space and fitness equipment around the edge of the room
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  • A large window in the fitness suite with views into the corridor weight lifting equipment in front.
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  • Large mirror in the fitness suite with weight lifting equipment in front
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  • Students exercise in the fitness suite
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  • A large sports hall with six basketball nets on two walls, two goals against a wall
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  • students playing badminton in the sports hall
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  • The gym hall, half wooden panelling and half glazed
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  • The gym hall showing three basketball hoops on three walls
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  • Students playing badminton
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  • intersection of two corridors, the walls are white with yellow features and stickman graphics of people playing rugby and basketball
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  • lockers in the corridor, recessed into the wall, the doors are mixed shades of grey
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  • corridor with one yellow wall and one grey with yellow chevrons, the slogan on the wall says "In spite of our differences we all dance to the same beat"
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  • A seating booth and table recessed into the wall in the waiting area
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  • View of the building from the corner of the site looking out across the rugby pitch, students are playing rugby
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  • The rugby pitch, students are playing rugby the building is in the background
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  • View of the building from the corner of the site looking out across the rugby pitch, students are playing rugby
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Spaces for the Community

A community classroom and community café are a great feature of this building, a desire for these spaces emerged through consultations with a wider stakeholder group and would allow community users to hire multiple standard sized rooms or open them up to create a large room with an adjacent self-catering kitchen. These rooms have the benefit of the floor to ceiling windows looking out over the landscape creating a bright and open space.

We are working to promote and develop community use of the facility going forward and hope to encourage a variety of groups to use the great spaces at Bangholm to create a thriving resource for the local area.

Community sports lets will be managed through Edinburgh Leisure in the evenings and weekends, with potential to expand some access during the day.

  • A long community room with one wall glazed looking out to the rugby pitch. Lots of different shaped tables, chairs and benching
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  • A long community room with flexible wall partition to close off into smaller rooms. Lots of different shaped tables, chairs and benching
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  • One end of the community room with two walls glazed looking out to the rugby pitch. A mixture of high and low tables and chairs
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  • looking through the window from outside into the classroom with flexible wall closed.
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Outdoor Learning Centre

The Sports and Outdoor Learning Centre at Bangholm is also home to the Council’s Outdoor Learning Team who have a workshop and office where they run their outdoor learning programme and training for our schools.

Outdoor Learning Centre workshop, a dark grey building with entrance to foyer and large garage door to workshop
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A triangular pond surrounded by trees and wetland grasses
Three ducks swimming in the pond

Find out more about the Trinity Bangholm Project in this Architect’s Journal article.