Bolton School shares its sporting facilities with the community in many ways:  

• Member of Bolton Schools' PE Association and host their termly meetings
• trials for Town Teams and County held here for soccer, rugby and cricket
• Bolton Wanderers Football Academy: use fields and Patterdale Hall, but on commercial basis
• Town Team cup finals - football
• Cricket: ran course for local coaches
• Hosted Bolton Indoor Cricket League
• Rugby: won Lancashire Rugby School of the Year award for our contribution towards rugby in the County.  Staff are involved in the County organisation and the County uses our facilities for practices and trials.  Two sports teachers are involved as coaches and selectors; one of them will be Chairman from May 2008.  We also set up Emerging Schools Rugby Union initiative and, together with Bolton Rugby Union FC, are its driving force.  On the back of this 9 other schools in the borough are now playing rugby.
• Bolton Schools' League for Rugby: started at Bolton School, now based at Bolton Rugby Club but run by the School
• Manchester Schools' Rugby: use our fields and changing rooms
• Lancashire Schools' Rugby: use our fields and changing rooms
• Rugby: run Y7 and Y8 Town Tournament – 100 pupils
• Rugby: coaches help run the County rugby team
• Rugby: run coaching sessions for local school teams before fixtures
• Rugby: run courses for coaches, referees, groundsmen
• Water polo: Centre for the North for Excellence and Hayden Howard is a Regional Training Centre Coach
• Pool used for English Schools' Swimming Association Events - at cost
• Life Saving Courses: organised and run by the School for teachers from other schools
• Organise the Bolton Swimming Championships for PE Association
• Tennis: courts used for town tennis finals
• Have organised the Sixth Form Athletics Championships
• Netball courts used for local and County tournaments - click here for story
• Provided lacrosse facilities for the North of England trials
• Girls' PE department organises sporting events for local Primary Schools