Redbridge Sports and Leisure has secured £250,000 worth of funding, allowing it to embark on the next phase of redeveloping the Redbridge Sports Centre.

The independent leisure trust has been awarded £250,000 from the London Marathon Trust towards the cost of a new 12-court indoor sports hall, which will accommodate badminton and netball.

The grant has been secured following a two-year fundraising campaign as the trust aims to build a new Olympic-standard sports hall at the site.

The latest grant forms part of the funding needed to complete the £6.3m project and will feature a 12-court badminton/3-court netball hall along with seating and viewing facilities, health & wellbeing studios and changing rooms.

Work on the centre will begin in August 2010 and is scheduled to be completed in the summer of 2011.

Chief executive Ken Leggate said: "We are delighted to have received this generous award from the London Marathon Trust, which will add to the £2m we are able to contribute from our own resources."