Based in Telford, Wrekin Swimming Club is a competitive swimming club set up in 2009 for local swimmers who want to train and race seriously towards their goals. Alongside pool work, the club includes poolside land training and gym sessions, with training available across mornings, evenings and weekends.

A club like this suits swimmers who are ready to commit to regular, structured training and who want to compete at County, Regional and National levels. Sessions are coached, and swimmers work on technique and fitness both in and out of the water.

Competitive swimming

Coached training

Flexible training times

Land and gym work

Established 2009

National experience

Wrekin Swimming Club is a competitive swimming club in Telford offering coached pool, land and gym training.

Wrekin Swimming Club

Checkers Gymnastics

Damflask Rowing Centre

Gracie Barra Tamworth

Based in Keighley, West Yorkshire, this sports and social club is listed in our directory under football. It offers a local option for people in and around the town who want to get involved with the game close to home.

Football clubs like this generally bring together players of different ages and abilities, and the social side often matters as much as the matches themselves. If you are thinking of joining, it is worth visiting the club's own website to find out what it currently runs and how to get in touch.

Keighley & West Yorkshire Sports & Social Club, a football club in Keighley, West Yorkshire. Find out more about getting involved locally.

Keighley & West Yorkshire Sports & Social Club

Plymstock Bowling Club

Based in Bootle, Merseyside, The Dance and Gymnastics Academy North Liverpool runs gymnastics and movement classes for children aged 2 to 12. Programmes are grouped by age, from Gym Twinkles for toddlers aged 2 to 3 through to Gym Totz, a playful introduction to gymnastics for 4 to 6 year olds, with the aim of building confidence, strength and coordination.

Classes like these are generally a good way for young children to stay active, develop balance and body awareness, and make friends in a structured setting. Parents looking for a dance or gymnastics activity in the North Liverpool area can book a trial class through the academy's website.

Classes for ages 2 to 12

Toddler sessions

Intro to gymnastics

Trial classes available

Coached sessions

Dance and gymnastics academy in Bootle, Merseyside, offering age-based classes for children aged 2 to 12, from toddler sessions upwards.

The Dance and Gymnastics Academy North Liverpool

The Muscle Club

Based in Washington, Tyne and Wear, Washington FC (also known as Washington AFC) is a community football club that aims to offer the game to everyone. Training is provided for boys and girls from Under 7s through to Under 18s, with an emphasis on developing technical skill, playing at a suitable level and enjoying attacking football. The club also runs Football Development Centres and, since 2019, has hosted a Girls Wildcats Centre alongside The FA.

Youth football clubs like this generally give young players regular coached training, the chance to play in a team and a friendly route into the sport. Parents can usually find a suitable age group and get involved with matchdays and club life.

Under 7s to Under 18s

Girls Wildcats Centre

Football Development Centres

Community club ethos

Attacking, technical football

Football camps

Community youth football club in Washington, Tyne and Wear, offering training for boys and girls from Under 7s to Under 18s.

Washington FC

Hadleigh Stars Gymnastics is a gymnastics club listed in Ipswich, Suffolk. The club has its own website, which is the best place to check current details about sessions, age groups and how to get involved.

Gymnastics is a sport that builds strength, flexibility, balance and coordination, and clubs often welcome young children taking their first steps in the sport alongside more experienced gymnasts working on their skills. Many people find it a fun way to stay active and gain confidence. If you are in the Ipswich area and curious about gymnastics, getting in touch with the club directly is a good way to find out what suits you or your child.

Hadleigh Stars Gymnastics is a gymnastics club in Ipswich, Suffolk. Find out more about getting involved in gymnastics locally.

Hadleigh Stars Gymnastics

Based in Carryduff, in the Lisburn and Castlereagh area just outside Belfast, Kaleidoscope Gymnastics, Cheer and Dance is a dedicated gymnastics facility with classes for all ages and abilities. Alongside gymnastics (from preschool and recreational groups to teen classes, competitive squads and inclusion sessions), the club also runs cheerleading teams and dance classes covering street, lyrical, musical theatre, ballet and jazz. Holiday camps and parties are offered too.

Gymnastics clubs like this are generally a good way for children and young people to build strength, flexibility, coordination and confidence in a supervised setting. Many members start with recreational classes and, if they wish, move on to more structured or competitive training as their skills develop.

Classes for all ages

Inclusion classes

Cheerleading teams

Wide range of dance

Holiday camps and parties

Award-winning club

Gymnastics, cheerleading and dance club in Carryduff near Belfast, with classes for all ages and abilities, holiday camps and parties.

Kaleidoscope Gymnastics, Cheer and Dance

Kingswood & Hanham Bowls Club

For anyone looking to take up Muay Thai in Stockport, MSA offers Thai boxing training for all ages and abilities. The Greater Manchester club welcomes newcomers alongside more experienced students, with sessions coached by a team that trains within an established Muay Thai lineage.

A martial arts club like this is a good place to build fitness, coordination and confidence while learning striking and self defence. Classes are structured around warm ups, conditioning and technique, and family friendly options mean children as well as adults can get involved.

All ages and abilities

Kids classes

Free trial

Self defence focus

Personal training

MSA Stockport Muay Thai offers Thai boxing and self defence classes for adults and children in Stockport, Greater Manchester.

MSA Stockport Muay Thai

Based in Oxford, UKCF Academy is an indoor parkour park offering classes in parkour, freerunning, acrobatics and trampoline, alongside aerial silks and hoop. Its purpose-built facility describes itself as the first indoor parkour park in the city, and it caters for both young people and adults. A termly youth programme runs through the year, with free trial sessions available before each term.

Gymnastics-style movement classes like these are generally a good way to build strength, coordination, balance and confidence. Newcomers can usually expect a structured warm-up, coached progressions on new skills and plenty of time to practise in a safe, padded environment.

Indoor parkour park

Free trial session

Termly youth programme

Aerial silks and hoop

Youth and adults

Holiday stunt camps

Indoor parkour park in Oxford offering parkour, freerunning, acrobatics, trampoline and aerial classes for young people and adults.

UKCF Academy: Oxford Parkour Park | Acrobatics | Aerial Classes

Rugby league is the game at Brighouse Rangers ARLFC, an amateur club serving the Halifax and Brighouse area of West Yorkshire. Although listed under football, the club plays the thirteen-a-side code, fielding an open age men's side alongside a junior section, and it keeps a club history page and match reports for supporters.

Amateur rugby league clubs generally offer a route into the sport for all ages, from youngsters learning the basics through to adults playing competitive league fixtures. They tend to be community hubs too, with local sponsors, volunteers and families gathering around match days. Anyone curious about playing or helping out is usually best advised to get in touch with the club directly.

Rugby league club

Open age men's team

Junior section

Club heritage

Brighouse Rangers ARLFC is an amateur rugby league club near Halifax, West Yorkshire, with an open age men's team and a junior section.

Clubs

Wrekin Swimming Club

Checkers Gymnastics

Damflask Rowing Centre

Gracie Barra Tamworth

Keighley & West Yorkshire Sports & Social Club

Plymstock Bowling Club

The Dance and Gymnastics Academy North Liverpool

The Muscle Club

Washington FC

Hadleigh Stars Gymnastics

Kaleidoscope Gymnastics, Cheer and Dance

Kingswood & Hanham Bowls Club

MSA Stockport Muay Thai

UKCF Academy: Oxford Parkour Park | Acrobatics | Aerial Classes

Brighouse Rangers ARLFC

Foundry Gym Stourbridge

J21 Gymnastics Club

The Women's Gym Wilmslow

Trojans Squash and Racketball Club

Alchemy Salsa Dance Academy

Bebington Archers

Cardiff Squash Rackets Club

Cheslyn Hay Table Tennis Club

Elite Studios