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Facilities

Our state-of-the-art facilities and industry standard software ensure that you have access to everything you need to succeed not only in your courses here at Itchen, but also in higher education and your future career.

Our student facilities include:

  • Fully Equipped spaces for; Sports, Performing Arts, Visual Arts
  • Learning Resource Centre (including access to online textbooks and journals)
  • Support for Learning quiet study space
  • A range of study spaces around the college
  • Catering facilities and shop
  • and much more
Sports Centre

The Itchen sports centre was built with support from the English Sports Council Lottery Sports Fund, FEFC and Sportsmatch. The sports centre is fully accessible to wheelchair users and to customers, students or staff who have mobility difficulties.

The sports centre and surrounding area comes equipped with:

  • A multi-purpose sports hall available for 5-a-side football, basketball, volleyball and badminton
  • A fully equipped gym
  • Strength and Conditioning suite
  • A dance/aerobics studio
  • Netball courts
  • Grass football pitch which was refurbished in 2021
  • Grass five-a-side pitch which was refurbished in 2021
  • Climbing wall
  • Social area

To find out more about who to contact regarding hire of these facilities, please visit our Community Information page HERE

Health and Fitness

Our health and fitness suite boasts a range of high quality equipment and a Strength and Conditioning suite

The aerobics and dance studio hosts fitness classes all year round.

Members of the public are able to join the gym for use outside of college hours, for more information on Gym Membership visit our community pages HERE

 

 

Performing Arts

In 2015 Itchen launched its state-of-the-art, £1.7 million performing arts block, to coincide with the brand new Performing Arts Centre.

The performing arts block comes equipped with:

  • A theatre
  • A performance studio
  • Two Apple Mac suites
  • Recording facilities
  • Soundproof music rooms
  • Media studio (with green and blue screens)
  • Excellent classrooms

To find out more about who to contact regarding hire of these facilities, please visit our Community Information page HERE

Theatre and Main Hall

Our Theatre and Main Hall is used regularly for events, such as open evenings, celebration award events, performances from our students and much more.

It hosts:

  • Tiered seating for 160
  • Further seating for 120
  • Projection facilities
  • Public address and sounds system
  • A stage
  • A Reception area

To find out more about who to contact regarding hire of these facilities, please visit our Community Information page HERE

Arts and Textiles Facilities

Our Purpose build Arts block houses our Art, Photography and Textiles Departments.

Our students have access to specialist equipment in spaces which provide inspiration as well as being functional.

Spaces available:

  • Bespoke textiles studio
  • Specialised art room
  • Photography studio
  • Photography darkroom
  • Apple iMac suites

 

Itchen Radio Station

Itchen Radio is the college’s own radio station. It is hosted by students and is broadcast across Southampton every week via Unity 101 Community Radio on Mondays.

Our award-winning radio station which gives our students real broadcast experience, setting them up well for careers in the media industry.

Itchen Radio has been broadcasting from this purpose-built space since 2015.

It’s completely soundproof, with a floating floor, double doors and double glazing. There’s a digital desk, a patch-bay to the room outside and equipment to play CDs, MP3s, Vinyl and even Cassette Tapes and Minidiscs! We have a selection of broadcast and recording microphones allowing us to make high-quality recordings of live music .

It has a green-screen wall inside and a blue-screen wall on the outside, so the studio can be used for film and video production as well as radio.

In addition to broadcasting across the college, we also broadcast many of our shows across Southampton thanks to our close relationship with local community radio station Unity101. Tune in to 101.1FM on Mondays between 2pm and 3pm.

 

Please find our recent shows HERE

Classrooms

Itchen is constantly expanding its teaching facilities, with several refurbishments undergone in the last five years.

In Summer 2022 we introduced a brand new building which houses 5 large, bright and spacious classrooms with interactive whiteboards.

To find out more about who to contact regarding hire of these facilities, please visit our Community Information page HERE

Hospitality and Student Centre

In Summer 2022 we refurbished our main canteen area which offers a wide range of hot food options daily, grab and go items, a fresh counter offering filled rolls, salad boxes and filled jacket potatoes as well as a range of drinks and snacks.

We also introduced a new College shop which also offers a grab and go hot counter, sandwiches, snacks and drinks, the shop is also open in the evenings providing a space for our Adult Education evening students and our community hirers to grab a coffee and a snack.
We offer a range of meal deals to ensure there are affordable options for every budget.

In 2020 we refurbished our Student Centre, adding more seating and students are also able to use the Student Centre during their independent study periods throughout the day.

The Student Centre also hosts a well being hub to provide students with a base to access support from.

Nursery

Our Nursery is open to the public and to students and staff.

You can read more about our Nursery and who to contact with any questions, on our Nursery page HERE

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