Children from ages 8 to 12 and involved with the Blackburn United youth sides compete in the West Lothian Soccer Sevens Development Association playing a modified version of football on smaller scale football pitches with reduced size goalposts. Soccer Sevens is non-competitive and has simplified rules to aid in the children's enjoyment and understanding of the game. At these ages the children are encouraged to learn, to improve and, most of all, to have fun.