The Chorley Inclusive Olympics will give people of any age with physical and/or learning disabilities the chance to take part in a two day challenge at All Seasons Leisure Centre involving a whole range of sports.

There will be wheelchair basketball and rugby, wheelchair cricket and blind cricket, trampolining and table tennis, swimming, cycling, boccia, athletics and football, among others.

The local mini-Olympics are a long held ambition of Joan Cummings who runs sports group the Chorley Challengers and she is delighted the two-day event is going to be held.

She said: "The success of our teams in the Olympics and Paralympics this year is inspiring, but at the same time I have been involved in London 2012 for the past five years and it is something that I had wanted us to do in Chorley for sometime.

"Everybody whatever their age will be able to have a go at a range of sports and if they do three or four different disciplines they will get a gold certificate. It is something I now hope will become an annual event, at least until 2012, and then hopefully it will carry on."

The Chorley Games, run in conjunction with the Inclusive Fitness Initiative, Community Leisure Services which runs the leisure centre on behalf of Chorley Council, Central Lancashire PCT and the Chorley Challengers, will be opend by Chorley Paralympian Graeme Ballard on Tuesday, October 21.

He will be joined by Paralympian Michael Churm, and Couns Mark Perks and Cath Hoyle, and Chorley FM will be covering both days.

There will be a closing ceremony after the activities on Wednesday when the Panama Hat Orchestra will play whilst the gold certificates are awarded by Chorley Council chief executive Donna Hall and the Mayor Coun Terry Brown.

For further information or to book a place contact Paul Skimin, inclusive activator and senior fitness instructor (All Seasons) on 01257 515004 (text phone users add prefix 18001 for Typetalk) or email him at Pskimmin@communityleisureservices.org.uk