Surrey Rugby
Development News
1. Club Development Conference
A date for your diary – Sunday 30th May 2009
We will be hosting a club development conference next year, and over the next few months you will start
to get information on the content, venue and speakers. The booking form for the conference will be out
before Christmas, and places at the conference will be limited, so please get your bookings in early – we
are encouraging clubs to send a cross-section of representatives to the conference in order to make the
most of the different workshops, stands, and presentations.
More information to follow shortly……..
2. Introducing the Team
Over the past few months, we have had several changes in the Surrey Rugby Development Team,
therefore, please see below for the team structure:
Jo Martin
Rugby Development
Officer
Surrey Met
Tom Williams
Community Rugby
Coach
Wandsworth &
Lambeth
Ben Stocken
Community Rugby
Coach
Kingston &
Richmond
Martin Mactaggart
Rugby Development
Officer
Surrey Rural
Toby Seward
Community Rugby
Coach
Sutton & Merton
James Skeens
Community Rugby
Coach
Mole Valley
Jamie White
Community Rugby
Coach
Runnymede &
Elmbridge
Matt Bray
Community Rugby
Coach
Guildford & Waverley
Full details for the team can be found at www.surreyrugby.com
3. Who are your Coaching and Volunteer Co-ordinators?
Thank you to those clubs who have meticulously inputted this information on Rugby First, however we
are still missing quite a lot of information for these key volunteers within your clubs – please can you
complete the attached pro-forma and send back to development@surreyrugby.com
It is important that we know who these people are so that we can ensure the right information is
reaching the right people, rather than the club Hon Sec being lumbered with everything!!
CCC & CVC
Pro-forma.doc
4. Coach & Refereeing Course Update
See attached flyer for Scrum Master Class at Cobham RFC on Wednesday 29th October
Scrum Master Class Non Award Coach
Flyer.Cobham RFC.29.10.08.doc
Application Form.doc
For full updated courses (award and non-award), please follow the link:
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http://www.communityrugby.com/communityrugby/index.cfm/Fuseaction/Home.Story/StoryTypeId/102/SectionId/1447/StoryId/
17083.cfm
For up to date Referee Courses in Surrey, please look at www.surreyrugby.com
If you would like to organise an in-house referees’ course for your club, please contact:
Bob Ockenden 07979 797 694
bobockenden@rfu.com
5. County Sport Partnership – advertise your vacancies, find a coach, find
courses & advice
Please remember that your local County Sport Partnership offers various courses in coaching, first aid,
club development etc. and also allows individuals to advertise their vacancies. Please find below the
links to the local CSPs:
Surrey Rural
Surrey Met
Active Surrey Sport Partnership http://www.activesurrey.com/
Pro-Active South London
http://www.pro-activesouthlondon.org/
Pro-Active Central London
http://www.pro-activecentrallondon.org/
6. vRugby – Seeking Young Volunteers to be Club Activators
Do you have young volunteers within your club who you would like to put forward for further
development, mentoring and support? We are looking for 7 clubs to put themselves forward to take
part in the vRugby campaign, and for their Club Activators (young volunteers) to run specific projects on
one of the four themes below:
Background information for vRugby applicants
vRugby aims to create over 3,744 new opportunties over 3 years from 2008 to 2011 for young people
aged 16-25 to volunteer in Rugby Union. Young volunteers will run ‘bite size’ projects that really benefit
their club or local community. They will receive training, clothing, certificates and expenses. Having
‘tasted’ rugby volunteering they will be shown paths to longer term voluntary roles at rugby clubs. The
taster projects will be one of four themes:
vRugbyFun Plan, organise and deliver a fun rugby event for others to take part in healthy exercise.
vRugbyLife Use rugby’s ethos to run a session to educate young people about healthy lifestyles
(nutrition, exercise, obesity, alcohol, drugs, behaviour, etc.)
vRugbyCash Raise money for a project of your choice to benefit your rugby club.
vRugbyForce Make an improvement to your club facilities so they can be used more by your local
community.
The Rugby Football Foundation and v, an independent charity championing youth volunteering in
England, are funding the project. Community Rugby (Rugby Football Development Ltd) will be
delivering the project.
If you are interested in getting your club involved, and want more information, please contact your local
RDO (contacts at bottom of newsletter)
7. U21s
More information on the Clubs’ U21 competition can be found on www.surreyrugby.com
If you are interested in entering this hugely successful competition for the 08-09 season, please contact
Martin Mactaggart on martinmactaggart@rfu.com or 07921 283 339
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8. Community Rugby – Forthcoming Cluster Meetings
Please find attached dates and information for the forthcoming Cluster meetings:
Surrey Community
Rugby-Notice of meetings.doc
9. Watch the Baa Baa’s at Wembley
Middlesex RFC has come to an arrangement to get discounted tickets to the Barbarians v Australia
match at Wembley Stadium on Wednesday 3rd December. For further information, please see the
attached poster (to put up in your clubs), and information about purchasing tickets:
Baa Baa v Aus.pdf
Barbarians Ticket
Letter.doc
10. BBC Sports Unsung Hero 2008
With the Olympic and Paralympics in Beijing producing so many British medallists, and London 2012
now less than four years away, this award seeks to recognise the people who devote their time, energy
and effort to helping more people enjoy sport around the UK.
Last year’s overall winner was the remarkable 85-year-old Margaret Simons of Bardwell Football Club in
Bicester. She founded the club in 1964, bought the nets kits, balls, medical kits and refreshments from
her own money, and was chair, secretary, treasurer, manager and coach to the 20 children in her first
year. An estimated nearly 3,000 children between ages of seven and 16 have now represented the
club, which has teams in four different leagues.
Nominations for the 2008 BBC Sports Unsung Hero Award can be made at
www.bbc.co.uk/sportsunsunghero The closing date is Friday 31st October. 15 regional winners will
be chosen from around the BBC's Nations and Regions in November. The overall 2008 winner will be
announced on the BBC Sports Personality of the Year show live on BBC ONE on Sunday December 14
from the Echo Arena in Liverpool. Bursaries of up to £2,500 are also available to each regional winner,
to help them and their club in their work with sport in the community
11. Win the chance to play at Twickenham
Do you play amateur rugby or know someone who does? Join GUINNESS® CLUB TOGETHER
for a top evening of rugby entertainment
Guinness Club Together is a scheme designed to support Grass Roots Rugby Clubs in the UK.
Members can collect their Guinness keg caps and swap them for Rugby training materials; they also
have the chance to enter competitions to win money can’t buy prizes such as the chance to play at
Twickenham before the Guinness Premiership Final.
To launch this year’s Guinness Club Together scheme, amateur rugby coaches and club members
across the country are invited to Guinness Rugby Essentials training events. The events will take place
at selected GUINNESS PREMIERSHIP clubs throughout October and November and will be hosted by
GUINNESS PREMIERSHIP players and coaches who will run sessions on training techniques, warm-up
drills and nutritional advice. The players, coaches and a GUINNESS PREMIERSHIP referee will also be
available for a Q&A session in which they will share their views on the game and explain the new (ELV)
rules to help improve club performances.
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To attend a Guinness Rugby Essentials training event, email guinnessclubtogether@synergysponsorship.com with your name, rugby club, number of attendees 2 and the event you would like to
attend. If you know anyone who would be interested in attending please send on these details.
Guinness Club Together Rugby Essentials dates:
Time / Date
22nd October (18.00 – 21.00)
27th October (17:30 – 19:45)
29th October (18.00 – 21.00)
5th November (18.00 – 21.00)
12th November (18.00 – 21.00)
19th November (18.00 – 21.00)
Club
Harlequins
Gloucester
Newcastle Falcons
Sale Sharks
Northampton
Saints
Saracens
Venue
The Stoop
Kingsholm Stadium
Kingston Park
Edgeley Park
Franklin’s Gardens
Vicarage Road
[1]
Applicants to Club Together must be aged 18 or over, resident in GB & and a member of a nonprofessional rugby club affiliated with the RFU, SRU or WRU. Excludes Ireland and Northern Ireland.
Only one applicant per rugby club. Please note the Twickenham competition has now closed. See
www.guinness-clubtogether.com for full terms and conditions. Promoter: Diageo Great Britain Limited,
London NW10 7HQ.
2 Limited to two representatives per rugby club. Attendees must be aged 18 or over.
12. Ladies Rugby – Support
Richmond FC have an excellent set up and for the women’s section they have 5 coaches, plus
sessional coaches. The 5 coaches, with the exception of 1 are all ex-England women. Richmond Ladies
are willing to form links with other ladies clubs in the area, helping to boost clubs by doing the occasional
guest coaching session, or having a club visit them for joint training
If your club would be interested in taking Richmond Ladies up on their offer of help, please contact
Helen Ives on Helen.ives@feltham.hounslow.sch.uk
13. Funding Opportunities

Sport Support – a new company set up to source funding for Community Sport. The can be
contacted on:
sportsupport@hotmail.co.uk
www.sportsupport.vpweb.co.uk
Telephone: 07523 119 436

This is a good way to raise funds for Club’s by shopping and searching online. You can shop
online with 600+ well known retailers at www.easyfundraising.org.uk including Argos, Next,
Amazon, John Lewis, Vodafone, M&S, Play.com, Debenhams, British Airways, Travelodge,
eBay and many more. Just get clubs to register a cause. Then whenever you want to make a
purchase up to 15% of the price will be donated to the cause - at no additional cost to the club!

http://www.surreycommunityfoundation.org.uk/grants.php?id=89 Grassroots Grants is an easy
and flexible source of funding for clubs / sections with less than £20,000 per year income (can
be done for a section of the club if they have their own bank account)
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
Sportsmatch Re-launch – please find attached press launch
Sportsmatch
Relaunch.doc

London Winter of Sport Funding – follow this link for grants of up to £1000
http://www.incentivated.com/hermes/emailTemplateV2/onlineversion/email.aspx?id=32456F09D
-5BB39
London Winter of Sport 2008/09 funding aims to help clubs and community groups to provide
free sport, physical activity and coaching opportunities, for people to participate in across
London in the run up to the Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2012 and beyond.
This year's funding application process opens on 1 October 2008, so why not apply now to get
involved.
Grants of up to £1,000 available for Community Groups and Sports Clubs
This year community groups and sports clubs can apply for grants of up to £1,000. Your activity
will also be supported by the London Winter of Sport team through marketing and promotional
opportunities. Activities must take place between December 2008 and 31 March 2009.
Funding is available for all sports and physical activities, ranging from sports coaching sessions
to sports festivals and sports club open days. A key focus of the programme is to ensure
participants have the opportunity and are encouraged to continue participation in sport following
attending a London Winter of Sport event.
14. New Office Address & Useful Contacts
Please note our new office address:
Surrey Rugby
Dorset House
Regent Park
297 Kingston Road
Leatherhead
Surrey, KT22 7PL
Rugby Development Officers:
Surrey (Met)
Jo Martin
Surrey (Rural)
Martin MacTaggart
jomartin@rfu.com
martinmactaggart@rfu.com
07764 960 387
07921 283 339
Visit www.surreyrugby.com for all the latest County news
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