Welcome to the Link4Life Website [Link4Life, Cultural Trust, Rochdale, Culture, Arts Heritage, Museum, Sports Centres, Heywood Village, Touchstones Rochdale, Middleton Arena, Littleborough, HOLWAC, Heywood Springhill, Marland Golf, swimming, Hollingworth Lake]
Link4Life are hosting a string of development workshops over the next 4 months which have been identified by community based Sports Clubs in the borough. These events are at very reasonable costs to clubs of either £10 or £20 per delegate, dependant on what status (from which club), and from where, geographically, the applicant is applying. [Read more]
Nominations for the Greater Manchester Sports Awards have now opened. The Greater Manchester Sports Awards involve all ten boroughs in Greater Manchester, with each borough running their own Awards ceremony where winners go on to represent their borough across six categories at the Greater Manchester Sports Awards. [More]
You can now sign up as a member of Link4Life Fitness online. [Click here]

The £10 million new Heywood Sports Village is being built on the site of the existing Heywood Sports Complex. Due to open September 2010 follow its progress by clicking here or on our Flickr photostream at www.flickr.com/link4life . Download the Sports Village leaflet here.
Over 60 and want to get more active? Download a copy of the Dale's Swinging 60's exercise sessions. With free refreshments and free tickets to Rochdale AFC home games there are sessions at centres boroughwide.
Enter this year's Swimathon and raise money for Marie Curie Cancer. This year's Swimathon is between 16-18 April - register now on line. You can take part in a local Swimathon at Heywood Sports Complex (Gaskell Pool) or 'Simply Swim' at any other pool. [More]
And don't miss our NEW Events Calendar. This great new feature of our website allows you to search for events by category or find out what's on this week or next month. Take a look at the Calendar.
International Women's Day 8 March
Throughout the years women have made Rochdale the vibrant area it is today. From Gracie Fields to Ailse O'Fussars who would choose to celebrate International Women's Day? Read More
Link4Life’s aim is to teach every child in the borough of Rochdale to swim, to ensure that they will be safe when in and around open water, to encourage them to be physically active and to enable them to lead a healthy lifestyle throughout their life. [More]
You can now go online to buy sports equipment and clothing from well known names and get them delivered to your home. It is part of an exciting new partnershp we have formed with the Amateur Swimming Association and we have also improved the range of swimming goods on sale from our Pools.
What do you think? Does the Link4Life website meet your needs - email your suggestions and comments to Link4Life.
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- Current Exhibitions at Touchstones Rochdale
- Heywood Civic - What's On
- Littleborough Sports Centre Contours Gym Photo Gallery
- Local Sporting Links
- Middleton Arena
- Over 50s Activities
- Passport to Leisure
- Rochdale Borough Sports Awards
- Rochdale Music Society Programme 2009-10
- SHOKK Gym Membership Offer
- SHOKK Gym Video - courtesy of SHOKK Ltd
- SHOKK Youth Gyms
- Sporting Links
- Sports Development
- Swimming Pools
About Link4Life
Link4Life is the new name for leisure and cultural services in the borough of Rochdale from 1 April 2007 when services formally transferred from Rochdale Council into a Rochdale Boroughwide Cultural Trust. We have four main areas to the Trust - arts and heritage, entertainment, fitness and health, and sport and leisure. The Trust is providing these services on behalf of Rochdale Council under a formal 15 year partnership agreement.
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Our Aim
Link4life will plan and manage the delivery of high quality, enjoyable, affordable, accessible cultural provision in the borough of Rochdale that gives residents and visitors the opportunity to lead the healthy, creative, active lifestyle of their choice.
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