Sport and Leisure
Bracknell Town F.C. are members of the Hellenic Football League Division One East, and play their home matches at Larges Lane. The Bracknell Bees Ice Hockey Club are former national champions, who currently play in the English Premier League. The Bracknell Blazers are the 2009 BBF National League champions. The town is also represented by teams playing rugby, hockey and cricket.
The town has a large leisure centre, which includes swimming and athletics facilities, whilst there is also the Coral Reef Water Park, the Downshire Golf Complex, the Bracknell Lawn Tennis Club, and Esporta, the Royal County of Berkshire Club. The John Nike Leisuresport Complex houses a dry ski slope and an ice rink, and there are 2,600 acres (11 km2) of Crown Estate woodland at the Look Out Discovery Centre. A number of organisations are active in the area. These consist of an Army Cadet Force detachment(7 Platoon Bracknell) and an Air Training Corps (2211 Squadron) which are both located on the same site, Saint Johns Ambulance Cadets, other youth groups that involve a younger crowd including several troops of Scouts and the Bracknell Forest Lions Club, which was formed in 1968 to help those in need.
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