About Us

We are a leisure and cultural trust which thrives on creating opportunities, inspiring people and enriching lives by getting people excited about leisure activities, the arts, entertainment, culture and events!

Providing a unique mix of leisure and cultural activities in Bournemouth at award winning venues and centres, we are transforming thousands of people’s lives each year and contributing millions into the local economy through employment, business tourism and supporting partner organisations.

Our venues include Bournemouth International Centre (BIC) and Bournemouth Pavilion which offer a diverse range of entertainment and events. Our centres provide leisure activities for everyone and include Littledown Centre, Pelhams Park Leisure Centre, Stokewood Leisure Centre and Sir David English Sports Centre. Our BH Live Fitness membership packages are great value for customers who want to enjoy the benefits of being regularly active across all four leisure centres.

We manage and operate our venues and centres in partnership with Bournemouth Borough Council. In addition the Sir David English Sports Centre is operated by BH Live in partnership with the Bournemouth School Sports Trust and Bournemouth School Charitable Trust.

We also operate a number of services including BH Live Tickets, which sells tickets for shows, concerts, exhibitions, football matches and town events, BH Live Hospitality, one of the largest caterers in the South West and Meet Bournemouth, a venue finding and marketing service for conference, event and exhibition organisers all over the world!

Find out more about us in the Who We Are section.