Sports clubs, venues & events upholstery.

Sports clubs, stadiums, function rooms and event spaces all have the same problem: a lot of seats, a hard life, and a calendar that never quite has a gap in it. We recover them from our Stalybridge workshop for clubs and venues across Greater Manchester and the North-West, in Crib 5 fabric, in club colours, and in batches timed to the fixture list. Recent work includes stadium seat shells for a non-league football ground, banquet seating and footstools for a Cheshire rugby club, padded impact walls for a golf simulator room and theatre-style seating for a lecture space. Send photos and a seat count via a commercial quote and we will come back with an itemised price.

Stadium and terrace seats

Stadium seat reupholstery covers the moulded bucket shells with padded inserts, the tip-up pads on older stands, and the swing seats found in some grounds and sports halls. We take a sample seat off its bracket, work out the fixing and the pad construction, then price the batch. Shells that are structurally sound keep their plastic; the pads are rebuilt in combustion-modified foam and covered in a contract vinyl or fabric that shrugs off rain, pies and weekly pressure washing. We have produced a visual for a forty-seat swing-seat run before the order was placed, so the club committee could see the colour on the seats rather than on a swatch.

Clubhouse and members’ bar seating

The clubhouse is where the money is taken, so it is usually where the recover starts. Clubhouse fixed seating is priced per linear metre and recovered in sections or in situ so the bar keeps trading. Tub chairs, loose dining chairs, bar stools and footstools are recovered in matched batches, and the bar front can be padded to match. This is the same work we do for pubs and hotels, with the same Crib 5 rule book, and the same pub seating per-metre pricing.

Function rooms and event spaces

Function rooms, wedding suites and events spaces trade on bookings, which means the seating has to look right in the photographs and the room cannot be out of action for long. We recover function-room seating in batches between bookings: banquette runs along the walls, stacks of loose chairs in identical fabric, sofas and armchairs for the lounge area, and headboards and bedroom chairs where the venue has rooms. If a venue runs an events diary, tell us the gaps and we will fill them.

Golf simulators, games rooms and sports halls

Golf simulator rooms, indoor cricket nets and games rooms need padded impact walls: foam-backed panels covered in a hard-wearing fabric that takes a ball or a shoulder without marking. We build panels to your wall dimensions, in the foam depth the room needs, and fit them or hand them over for your joiner. The same construction makes acoustic panels for a noisy bar or a meeting room. See upholstered wall panelling for how the panels are made and priced.

Lecture theatres and spectator seating

Tiered lecture and spectator seating with tip-up mechanisms is a specialism of its own. We cover it under cinemas and auditoriums, including the mechanism checks and closure-window scheduling that type of seat needs.

Crib 5 and the paperwork

Every seat in a licensed clubhouse or public venue is covered in fabric that passes Crib 5, on combustion-modified foam tested to BS 5852, and we hand over the certificates with the quote and again at sign-off. Where a fabric in your club colours is not natively Crib 5 we can have it treated and certificated. That keeps your licensing, insurance and safety-certificate file complete without you chasing it.

Around the fixtures

Tell us the fixture list, the function bookings and any closed days. Loose seats and shells go through the workshop in batches so the room is never empty. Fixed runs are recovered in sections, or in situ where lifting the run out is impractical. A members’ bar can usually be done across two or three quiet weekdays; a full stand is planned across the close season or a run of away fixtures.

What to send for a venue quote

Photos of each seat type and one of the room, the number of each, linear metres for fixed runs, the next date the room or stand has to be ready, club colours or a brand guide, and the best contact for a purchase order. Your quote sets out labour, fabric, foam, fitting, lead time, VAT and any Crib 5 treatment or certification.

Related pages

• Pub seating and banquettes – per-metre fixed seating for members’ bars and clubhouses
• Bar stool reupholstery – stools for the members’ bar in batches
• Upholstered wall panelling – padded impact and acoustic panels
• Cinemas and auditoriums – tiered and tip-up spectator seating
• Get a venue quote