Club Mission
Blackburn United FC is a FA 2-star accredited football club with its grass roots in the heart of Blackburn’s Community. The club is well known in Blackburn and other parts of North West having been established since 1995. With over 200 registered players and 15 volunteer committee members, our club has grown and achieved success and recognition at all level.
Many of the children have not taken part in sport at this level before, with this in mind the club has put in place a number of initiatives to ensure that young people are able to fulfil their potential and skill in a completive context and have the opportunity to compete at the elite level of sport. The future development of the club lies firmly with its ability to work at local grass root levels, showing the importance role sport plays in youth development.
We want to create safer, stronger and more respectful community links through development by increasing participation, the playing, organised regular football and providing role models, coaching leaders and officiating opportunities for parents and volunteers
Getting young people, particularly the Asian youths, into grassroots sport is an overriding aim for Blackburn United.
We feel therefore we are encouraging community cohesion between young people and showing that barriers can be broken down.
Currently we have 9 teams that play in the East Lancashire Alliance Youth League, ages from 9 years to 18 years old. We also have one Senior team playing in the Blackburn Combination League.We also run coaching sessions for Girls and are in the process of forming a girls’ team to play in the local Leagues.
The club also run a Football Development Academy that engage and coach children/young people of ages 5 years to 14 years in a range of constructive activities. The sessions are open for both sexes and take place at Synergy Sport Centre (Formerly St. Marys College ) and at St Micheal With St Johns School on Saturday mornings. Circa 150 children attend regularly engaging in a series of activities/coaching sessions designed to raise awareness in football skills, develop teamwork ethos and communication.
The club also hold annual tournament and fund-raising event and have teams entering from all parts of Lancashire.
This is of course down to the hard work of the player’s, managers and the many support staff, all of whom do it voluntarily.
Amongst our ranks are experienced, qualified coaches as well as young football coaches of all levels who pride themselves on being able to assist the community and work with children who may not normally have access to professional football coaching. We also encourage girls to take up the sport and find that they also attend our coaching sessions. We want volunteers to become qualified coaches and in past 5 years have funded some 15 volunteers to gain level 1 and 2 qualifications.