Arts and Heritage
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From free hands-on activities in the museum and art gallery to holiday quizzes, Touchstones Rochdale has lots on offer to both entertain and enthral your family, including under 5s. Look out for our events programme which offers a range of exciting workshops and events for every member of the family. Pop in for a short visit or relax for a few hours and visit our café and gift shop too. There is so much fun to discover at your local arts and heritage centre!
Children & Young People
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Link4Life provide a variety of sessions for children & young people at various venues across the borough.
To keep up-to-date with all Link4Life activities for children & young people follow the link to subscribe to our regular Go4it Newsletter.
Follow this link to the NHS website to see how much physical activity children and young people need to do to keep healthy?
STRIDE
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Do you have what it takes? We're looking for boys and young men aged 10 to 20 years to take part in STRIDE, a dance project taking place across Greater Manchester from May to July. The project is run by Dance Initiative Greater Manchester in association with Company Chameleon and Rochdale Leisure Centre is hosting.
The project takes place over weekly sessions at Rochdale Leisure Centre before an intensive week of rehearsals leading up to the final performance in the building of the Royal Exchange Theatre on Sunday 28 July.
Build fitness | Develop dance theatre techniques | Perform in public | No dance experience necessary.
- All sessions are free
- For boys and young men ages 10 - 20 years
- Taster session - Rochdale Leisure Centre - Wednesday 22 May from 4pm-5.30pm
- Try-out session - Rochdale Leisure Centre - Sunday 9 June from 1.30pm-4pm
- Project sessions - Rochdale Leisure Centre - every Sunday from 16 June to 21 July 1.30pm-4pm
- Rehearsal week - venue TBC - during week 22 - 27 July
- Final performance - Royal Exchange Theatre building - Sunday 28 July
For further details please contact Dance Initiative Greater Manchester (DIGM) on 0161 232 7179 or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Street Dance
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Middleton Arena
Mondays 4pm
With fully qualified instructor
Cost: £3.50 or free with membership
Aged range: 12-16
Contact: Middleton Arena on 0161 662 4000 to book
Indoor Climbing
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Littleborough Sports Centre
The indoor climbing wall is a fun adrenaline filled way to keep fit and available for anyone over 7 years.
Over 7 meters high it has 14 routes of varying difficulty designed to offer progressive and challenging courses. Using qualified climbing instructors these courses will be both fun and informative.
Junior Taster Sessions
Mondays 3.30pm-4.30pm & 4.45pm-5.45pm
Sessions cost £2.75, to book call Littleborough Sports Centre 01706 756602.
Follow the link for Adult Taster Sessions.
Junior NICAS Scheme
Saturdays 10am-11.30am
NICAS (National Indoor Climbing Award Scheme) is a great way to improve climbing skills, learn rope work and equipment safety, develop communication, trust and set goals and challenges to overcome.
Sessions cost £6, to book call Littleborough Sports Centre on 01706 756602.
Mini Tennis Coaching
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Kingsway Park Sports Centre & Athletics Arena, Turf Hill Rd. Rochdale, OL16 4XA.
Telephone: 01706 750894
Tuesdays: 12, 19 & 26 March 2013
Time: 4.30pm-5.30pm
Cost: £10 for 3 week course - sessions may be paid for individually.
Middleton Arena, Corporation Street, Middleton
Tennis Camp starting Tuesday 2 April 2013
For further information contact Sylvia Decker (Tennis Community Coach) on 07800 672367 or email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Children should always attend sessions wearing suitable sports clothing and not in jeans as they restrict movement around the court. Suitable sports shoes must always be worn in the Sports Halls to avoid injury and to protect the surface. Please bring drinks as it does get very warm.
