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Maggie Moo at Memorial Park

A MOO-SICAL feast for 0 to 5-year-olds is rolling into Fleetwood

Lateral flow Covid testing has been set up by Wyre Council at Thornton Leisure Centre to encourage symptom-free workers to have regular tests for the virus.

Breaking £3.7M investment announced as new operator set to run leisure centres

A teenager got locked inside YCMA Thornton last night.

Panic as teenager finds themselves locked inside YMCA Thornton

YMCA Fylde Coast has moved to clear up confusion over its decision not to bid for Wyre’s new leisure contract

YMCA explains decision to step back from council leisure centres

YMCA Fylde Coast has revealed it will step back from operating local authority-owned leisure centres in Fylde and Wyre

Gym and pools operator makes major announcement on its future plans

St Annes Swimming Pool

YMCA agrees contract extension at St Annes Pool for short period

Fylde council have confirmed the transfer of Kirkham pool.

New hope for Kirkham pool as major update is released

Kirkham Pool is still seeking a new operator.

Search for a new Kirkham Pool operator is back on as party backs out

Kirkham swimming pool was forced to close since its roof partially blew off during a storm in December 2021.

Council issues update on Kirkham pool closure

The YMCA swimming pool in St Annes will be temporarily closed next week as it undergoes a refurbishment

Popular swimming pool on the Fylde coast set to close temporarily

Fleetwood's YMCA Leisure Centre pool

Breaking Child rushed to hospital after nearly drowning in YMCA swimming pool

Gavin Chesworth, who was said to have tested positive for Covid just before entering court, admitted a charge of making demands with menaces against another man.

Man who appeared in court to enter plea to blackmail said he had Covid

Sue Rayner and the memorial bench in tribute to her husband, swimming teacher Barrie (inset)

Bench tribute to swimming teacher who taught 50,000 children to swim

Kirkham Swimming Pool

Plea goes out for new operator to take on Kirkham Baths

Player of the match league debutant Lochlan and first ever Parents Player of the match Rio

CN Sports Whites vs YMCA Tigers match report

Poulton Town Panthers and YMCA Blacks served up an outstanding B&DYFL match of the week Picture: Karen Tebbutt

B&DYFL: YMCA Blacks v Poulton Town Panthers
“It’s probably the biggest pitch we’ve ever played on,” said Poulton Town Panthers manager Ben King of Saturday’s surface at YMCA – but it’s another step up his team of ‘under-nines’ have taken in their stride.
Andy Moore

Roger Weston presents £350 Lodge of Triumph cheque to Aimee Townsend of YMCA. Photo: John Topping

Triumph gift to YMCA Supported Housing

Kirkham swimming baths has taught every generation of the town's children to swim since it opened in 1914

'It belongs to us': roofless swimming pool's users demand it is reopened

YMCA Kirkham Rural Splash is set to permanently close.

YMCA Kirkham Rural Splash is set to permanently close

Meet the swimmers fighting against sewage discharge pollution

Action from our under-nines' match of the week between YMCA Whites and Foxhall Sporting Pictures: B&DYFL

Youth match of the week: YMCA Whites v Foxhall Sporting

The Hub is available at St Annes YMCA in St Albans Road on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

New 'one-stop' help hub for the vulnerable opens in Fylde

Match action between YMCA Orange Under-10 and Fylde Coast Soccer Messis

Match of week: YMCA Orange v Fylde Coast Soccer Messis

Wyre Civic Centre in Poulton

How you can have your say about life in Wyre

Young people mark 100 years of the YMCA on the Fylde Coast by giving back to the community.

Ad Feature YMCA centenary events in Lytham

Assistant Manager Trevor Thaine and Manager Christina Sharpe inside the new YMCA store in St Nic's Arcade, Lancaster. Photo: Kelvin Stuttard

YMCA Lancashire: "We’re a proper community charity"

Author Caroline Blake

Novel journey as solicitor and cafe owner becomes cookery writer and novelist
Lancashire lawyer turned cafe owner Caroline Blake has embarked on her third career - as a writer of cook books and novels.
Fiona Finch

Wyre Council is carrying out urgent electrical work on breach chalets in Fleetwood

Urgent £21k electrical work to be carried out on Fleetwood's oldest beach chal...

Under-7 action between YMCA Orange and Kirkham Junior Blues
Pictures: DANIEL MARTINO

B&DYFL match of the week: YMCA Orange v Kirkham Junior Reds

The roof at Kirkham YMCA which had blown off due to the high winds.

Mum tells how her daughter has been left traumatised after roof collapse at pool

Customers abandoned YMCA Kirkham Rural Splash in Station Road after a section of roof over the swimming pool collapsed (Credit: Google)

Swimmers evacuated after roof of YMCA building collapses in Kirkham

Mike Vernon, from Treales, near Kirkham, died of cancer aged 54

£10,000 raised in memory of beloved dad, husband and YMCA Fylde Coast worker who...

With 400 classes a week, 8 gyms, 6 sports halls, 9 studios and 5 pools, find out why the YMCA Fylde Coast is the fitness deal you are looking for

Ad Feature YMCA Fylde Coast offers affordable gym membership

Fleetwood Town Council has funded free swimming for children at the town's YMCA pool. Coun Mary Stirzaker (left), Coun Lorraine Beavers and Coun Cheryl Raynor are pictured with youngsters

Fleetwood youngsters set for free swimming after town council grant

Coun Holly Swales outside Poulton's YMCA Leisure Centre

Poulton pool must reopen too, says councillor

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Poulton pool must reopen too, says councillor

Gym equipment at Garstang YMCA.

Wyre’s leisure centres set to reopen soon as £220,000 government grant secured

Fleetwood swimming pool is to reopen in May

Fleetwood pool set to reopen in May

Fleetwood YMCA leisure centre and swimming pool

Fleetwood pool campaigners given hope after council's funding bid launched

The first protest at Fleetwood swimming pool earlier this month

Protest at Fleetwood swimming pool cancelled as Fylde coast enters Tier 4

Fleetwood health and fitness centre

Community plans protest at Fleetwood swimming pool as council says centre will n...

Both Fleetwood's and Poulton's YMCA swimming pools remain closed under Wyre Council's controversial decision to fund Garstang and Thornton.

Wyre Council urges Government to support YMCA leisure centres with funding

Councillors Lorraine Beavers and Cheryl Raynor are among five Labour members to call in the Wyre Cabinet decision on leisure centre funding

Wyre's controversial leisure centre decision is called-in by opposition

Fleetwood's YMCA leisure centre and pool

Wyre approves funds for Garstang and Thornton YMCA centres but Fleetwood and Pou...

Fleetwood YMCA leisure centre

Concern over Fleetwood ‘missing out’ on proposed leisure funding

Concerns have been raised about the continued closure of Fleetwood's YMCA swimming baths

Concerns raised over ongoing closure of Fleetwood pool

Pupils from Calder Vale St John's CE school campaigning to save their local swimming pool (Photo: Neil Cross)

Pupils send posters and letters to Ben Wallace MP in bid to save swimming pool

Paige Summerill and Ben Knapman were back in the YMCA gym in St Annes on Saturday.

A successful reopening weekend for Fylde Coast YMCA leisure centres

YMCA Fylde Coast's centre in Poulton.

YMCA confirms phased reopening of gyms and pools

Gym equipment at Garstang YMCA can be used again from July 25

Wyre gyms and fitness classes all set to reopen

Fleetwood Swimming Club is the biggest single user of the town's YMCA baths

Swimming club adds voice of concern about Fleetwood's YMCA pool

YMCA starts to open its charity shops and calls for donations

Julie Bradshaw MBE is concerned about the future of Fleetwood baths and says it must reopen

Record-breaking swimmer says Fleetwood's baths must reopen after lockdown

Thornton and Garstang YMCA leisure centres are set to re-open after lockdown, thanks to extra Wyre Council funding - but Fleetwood and Poulton centres will not re-open and will remain under review

Thornton and Garstang YMCA leisure centres set to re-open after lockdown, but Fl...

Concerns have been expressed about the future of the YMCA leisure amenities at Fleetwood and Poulton

Fears YMCA leisure centres at Fleetwood and Poulton won't re-open after lockdown

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