The club's motto is "Nil Nisi Optimum Sufficiet" (which the true Burnleyite would translate as: "Nowt But Best Will Do").

[5 tries and a drop goal worth 4 points] In 1985, the first experimental RFU league structure -the Girobank League- was set up in the North West of England and Calder Vale was involved.

Burnley were Team of the Month for the October 2002 Rugby World Magazine after a series of victories over Heaton Moor, Lytham and Carnforth.

The start of the 2008 - 09 season saw the award of the RFU's Seal of Approval to the Club which was presented at a pre-match lunch by Burnley's then M.P.

Also in 2008, the club was shocked to learn of the untimely death of Fred Picton-Turbervill[1] at his home in South Africa.