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Hi Newgirl, please excuse the slightly patronising tone of some of the previous posts! I appreciate that it must be quite a busy time for you if you have just moved into the area. There are a few things running in the area for children currently, the Accrington Stanley Community Trust run a skills centre on a monday and a dance centre on a wednesday evenings at Accrington Academy. They will also have further schemes starting in the near future so keep your eyes open for flyers and the like. This area is massively football oriented but there are plenty of local cricket clubs too, Accrington Cricket club run junior teams as I think do Enfield and Oswaldtwistle. There are swimming and gymnastics classes at Hyndburn Sports Centre and Pioneer Swimming club train there as well. There are several scouts groups in the area and theres an athletics club which runs at wilsons playing fields in clayton-le-moors.

If you have the facility to travel then there are ski centres in rawtenstall (ski rossendale) and on pendle hill (wellsprings) There used to be a climbing club at Roefield sports centre in clitheroe, this may well still be in existance, they also have a tennis club there. Ice skating at Blackburn Ice arena, plenty of places to go fishing (given the correct licenses), it is always worth ringing volunteer burnley as well as they run some excellent clubs in some non-regular sports, I'm sure I've seen a flyer for one for inline hockey through them at uni!!

I hope this helps you chuck and if I hear of anything else I will let you know, I volunteer at Accrington Stanley Community trust so I tend to here about what schemes are going on in the area.