Burnley Leisure & Culture

This summer, your membership means more 💙

When you join Burnley Leisure & Culture, you’re not just investing in your own health and wellbeing - you’re helping support local people too.

For every membership sold this summer, we’ll donate a free meal at Down Town Cafe 🍽️

Because as a not-for-profit organisation, everything we do is about creating healthier, happier communities across Burnley.

Feel good. Do good. Move with purpose 💪

👉 Join today and enjoy 50% OFF your first month with code 'GiveMore26' https://blcgroup.co.uk/offers/

☀️ Fresh flavours, sunny vibes, and great food this summer 🍽️

Our summer menus have landed across our bistros, and they're packed with seasonal dishes, light bites, refreshing drinks, and plenty of family favourites.

From brunch at 197 Bistro to lunch at Prairie Bistro or pre-show dining at Mechanics Bistro, there’s something for everyone to enjoy this season 💙

Think:
🥗 Fresh summer dishes
🍔 Bistro favourites
☕ Coffee & cake catch-ups
🍹 Relaxed dining with friends & family

And because we’re a not-for-profit organisation, every visit helps support healthier, happier communities across Burnley.

👉 Book your table: https://blcgroup.co.uk/book-a-table-request/

Seriously Social…about inclusion.

We are dedicated to offering life-changing opportunities to local individuals, empowering them to improve their lives in meaningful ways.

Another way to help people do this is by installing some special software on our website to improve inclusivity. It’s called Recite Me and it’s an assistive toolbar that allows visitors to customise our content so they can consume it in ways that work best for them.

That could be turning text into speech, help for sign language users, changing type size and colours for better visibility, even translating into foreign languages.

Since we installed Recite Me, 924 users have racked up 2,571 page views, with the top pages being Burnley Mechanics Theatre, memberships and timetables.

Text to speech translation has dominated with 723 clicks - a massive indicator that audio support is genuinely needed – while type changes have leaned towards dyslexia-friendly options. Users have requested 24 different languages options, including Czech, Armenian, Polish and Japanese.

Our toolbar is doing real work for real people!

Tonight’s “Just play” Rounders session at Towneley park is cancelled due to the weather ☔️
Hopefully we have better conditions for next week 🙏

🏌️ GROUP GOLF COACHING
For women & juniors

Build confidence, learn new skills, and enjoy the game in a relaxed, supportive environment.

✔️ No experience needed
✔️ Equipment provided
💷 £50 course fee

📞 01282 477201
📧 [email protected]

Seriously Social…about employment & skills

Apprenticeships can help young people build confidence, responsibility and a clear career pathway.

Here at BLC, we’ve hosted over 30 apprenticeships over the last three years, and we were delighted to be shortlisted for Employer of the Year at the Themis Inspire and Achieve Awards celebrating outstanding apprentices, employers, and mentors across the North West earlier this year.

Special mention to Leisure Centre apprentice Alyssa, who was a finalist for Apprentice of the Year in the Sport, Leisure and Beauty category at the Themis awards. Although she didn’t win this time, we are incredibly proud of her and everything she continues to achieve.

Another a brilliant example of hard work leading to success is our Leisure Centre apprentice Maisie, who was recognised at the 2026 Lancashire Apprenticeship Awards.

Throughout their apprenticeships, Alyssa and Maisie have developed not only practical skills and industry knowledge, but also confidence in supporting customers, promoting wellbeing and working as part of our busy leisure teams.

Our apprenticeship journeys reflect the impact apprenticeships can have in helping young people gain life skills and get them ready for the world of work.

All our apprentices are fantastic ambassadors for apprenticeships - especially Alyssa and Maisie!

Find out about working for BLC: https://blcgroup.co.uk/careers/

⏰ Last chance to apply for the 2027 London Marathon!

Our ballot closes TODAY — don’t miss your chance to join 🏃💙

Run for Burnley Leisure & Culture and help support local community projects that make a real difference across Burnley, including:
❤️ Health & wellbeing initiatives
🥊 Youth sport programmes
👟 Mental wellbeing walks
🎨 Arts & culture opportunities

Take on one of the world’s most iconic races and make every mile matter.

📅 Applications close tonight!
👉 Apply now: https://blcgroup.co.uk/run-the-london-marathon-for-burnley-leisure-and-culture/

Seriously Social…about the community.

There are thousands of people in Burnley who are involved in choirs, amateur dramatic or dance groups, music, heritage, and creativity of all kinds.

They have a huge impact on our borough, bringing joy to tens of thousands of people each year through events and projects across the borough’s venues, streets, parks, and public spaces.

The impact these events have, is only going to grow thanks to the Burnley 2027 Year of Culture, which aims to raise the profile of culture in Burnley, drive growth, foster innovation, and create a lasting legacy of benefits - including promoting social cohesion, civic pride, and environmental sustainability.

A foretaste of all that was our Culture Burnley Awards 2026, which shone a spotlight on the creativity, passion and commitment that makes our borough such a special place to live, work and visit.

From long-serving contributions to the cultural, heritage and creative sector to interfaith projects, singing choirs, youth theatre, committed volunteers, rising stars, large-scale exhibitions and events, and artistic trails – it set the scene for what culture can bring to the community.

Ladies & juniors, try golf for FREE this summer! ⛳️

Whether you’re new to the game or looking to build confidence, our fun and friendly taster sessions are the perfect place to start.

✔️ No experience needed
✔️ Equipment provided
✔️ Supportive environment

📍 Prairie Sports Village
📅 Limited spaces available

Book now:
📞 01282 477201
📧 [email protected]

Seriously Social…about health & wellbeing.

When the funding ended for an East Lancashire healthy hearts programme, we committed to keep it going in Burnley by funding it ourselves. And one person who’s glad we did is local man Ken.

Ken’s one of 2,000-plus people who benefit from a BLC health referral programme each year, helping them recover from heart attacks and strokes, become less frail by improving their strength and balance, lose weight, fight pain and more.

Ken was enjoying a relaxing camping holiday with his family, when in the middle of the night he felt a strong pain in his chest. As he suspected, it was a heart attack, which eventually resulted in him having two stents fitted in hospital.

Soon after his discharge, the hospital’s Cardiac Rehab Team gave Ken the opportunity to join a 12-week programme run by his local leisure centre. He said yes to the weekly gym and circuit classes, never missed and session and has never looked back!

As his confidence has grown, Ken’s pushed himself more and has set his sights on running in the great outdoors, with a long-term goal of participating in the Great North Run.