| Age Grade Registration 2023-24 is well underway – thank you In a record first week of Age Grade Registrations, over 22,000 age grade players from more than 500 clubs have already registered. What an outstanding effort! This would not have been possible without our brilliant club volunteers and registrars who have taken such a positive approach, as well as all the parents/guardians who have renewed registrations for their children or dependents. Focusing on getting ahead of administrative tasks before we reach September is great and will allow us to concentrate on what happens on the pitch when the season begins. As announced in the recent Community Game Update, we want to say thank you for all the hard work. With that in mind we have arranged a great offer for every club to claim 10 free tickets to England v Wales in the Summer Series at Twickenham Stadium on 12 August. Every club that registers an Age Grade player by 6 August will be able to apply for their 10 tickets via international ticket contact (ITC). The ITC will be sent an online application form on 24 July to complete, tickets will then be sent to them via the Twickenham Stadium App for onward distribution. We will be updating our Ticketing Team with the list of clubs every couple of days so that nobody misses out. We also have some other important updates for you: Help the handover Handing GMS accounts over to U17s and U18s from 2022/23 and U18s from 2020/21 and 2021/22 allows them to take ownership of the way they engage with the game as they move forward into the adult game. You can help us with the handover by encouraging these players to register. As a reward from us, any players in these groups that take ownership of their GMS player registration before 7 August will be entered into a draw to win tickets to the England v Fiji Summer Series game on 26 August at Twickenham Stadium. Two lucky winners will also win five tickets to the West Car Park Fan Village hospitality area for this fixture. Players will become eligible to take part in the prize draws once their record has been handed over to them and the player has verified their email address. Find more details about the Help the Handover competition here. Please note that the hospitality ticket winners must be over the age of 18. Full terms and conditions here. Age Grade Registration options in GMS Online Age Grade Registration ensures that parents and players are in control of their unique record and their data is secure and up to date. Although this will largely remain an adult-led process for safeguarding and data protection reasons, we have received feedback in the past two years that some groups of players would benefit from being able to manage their own record and registration. Therefore, in the limited circumstances where regular parental engagement is genuinely not possible for a club or parents become less involved for older teenage players, we will make a new optional feature available. This will empower the player to take on management of their own record, to register as a player and to register for and purchase courses. We stress that this is an optional feature for clubs. Please see our guide on how club registrars and volunteers can assist with this process. More Registration support is available here and via Community Rugby Help if you need to contact our team. And in other news…  Thank you to everyone that joined our most recent Age Grade Registration Webinar. The session took place on 12 July and covered the updates in this email in more detail. If you missed it, the recording is on the Platform 4 Rugby YouTube channel alongside a host of other useful videos for registrars. The Age Grade Registration Prize Draw is back! All clubs that register more 2023/24 Age Grade players than they managed in 2022/23 will enter the draw to win prizes including kit packages, vouchers and a visit from an England Rugby Legend.Could you be like our 2022/23 winners Cockermouth RFC, who received a visit from Lewis Moody? Full details are here.  Check out the Summer Activity Framework for July. The Framework provides support and guidance on rugby activity during the off-season here. New resources have been added to our Tackle Height Hub to help everyone across the game get ready for the new season. Click the button below to see the hub and please share this with your age grade network. Tackle Height Hub |
Cornwall & Devon England Rugby Referee Awards
Cornwall and Devon England Rugby Referee Awards
Course links 23/24 to be booked via GMS
ERRA Truro College Cornwall 26th October 2023 and 30th May 2024
https://bit.ly/3NQ5dbs
ERRA Plymouth Albion RFC Devon 12th November 2023 and 12th May 2024
https://bit.ly/3PWJJwB
ERRA Exwick Sports Hub Devon 19th November 2023 and 16th June 2024
https://bit.ly/3rskCqV
RFU Community Game Update July
| Tuesday 11 July Stay up to date with news about the community game by following @RFU on Twitter here. |
| Community Game Update Read Online |
| 1. ACTION REQUIRED Make the most of RWC 2023! The countdown to the Rugby World Cup 2023 is on and the excitement is building! To help you make the most of this opportunity, check out the RFU RWC Activation guides to help you use the tournament to recruit new players, retain existing squad members, and boost revenue. Age Grade Registration 2023/24 is now open Age Grade Registration for 2023/24 opened on 3rd July. Register Age Grade Players at your club and win tickets to England v Wales! Tickets to England v Fiji are also up for grabs for U17s and U18s players from 2022/23 and U18s players from 2020/21 and 2021/22 as they take control of their rugby record. Find out more in this piece. Have you visited the RFU’s Tackle Height Hub yet? To support players, coaches, referees, volunteers and CBs with tackle height changes ahead of the 2023/24 season, a comprehensive range of resources are being produced. Find out about the latest updates on the Tackle Height Hub in this section. Age Grade Summer Framework & Regulations – July 2023 We are pleased to confirm the permitted activity for July 2023, as per the Summer Activity Guide. Check it out in this section. 2. ACTION IF OF INTEREST Training Courses 2023/24 Season – Book now Approximately 20,000 places are available for coaches and referees on Kids First Tag Rugby, Kids First Contact Rugby, England Rugby Coaching and Refereeing Awards and Principles of Scrummaging. Find out how to book in this section. Women and Girls Toolkits Over the coming months, we will be providing brand new resources covering different health and welfare issues impacting female rugby athletes. The first of these Women and Girls toolkits; Menstrual Health was launched on 3rd July and can be found in this piece. U12 Girls Club Start-Up Scheme 2023/23 As part of the RWC 2025 Impact programme, we are about to launch the second year of the U12 Girls Club Start-Up Scheme as we head into the 2023/24 season that gives clubs a kit package and £500 to support or start their team. Applications are now live and close on 31st July 2023. The Community Rugby Injury Surveillance & Prevention Programme (CRISP) needs you The CRISP Project is critical to gaining better understanding and providing data in order to compare and assess trends in injury risk across different playing populations and levels of the game. We need clubs and teams from across the game to get involved and help improve the welfare of players. Be part of the UNIon – opportunity for female University students In partnership with Neal Training, as part of RWC25 Impact, the RFU are delivering a Female Leadership Academy programme under the name of UNIon. University students between the ages of 18-25 will develop their leadership skills and empower them in the rugby landscape. Honda Volunteer Hospitality registrations for Summer Series Club volunteers can register for up to four tickets each for pre-match hospitality in the British Airways Fan Village at Twickenham as part of the Honda Volunteer Recognition Programme. This programme recognises the thousands of volunteers who are an integral part of the sport. Find out how to register for your tickets in this section. 3. FOR AWARENESS Travel Funding Policy The Community Game Board (CGB) have reviewed travel grants ahead of the 2023-24 season. Read more about the policy in this piece. Managing Rugby Pitches In Drought Conditions Good club/facility management is essential during dry weather periods. Find out how to support, educate and communicate with your members as your club or organisation pulls together to help reduce the impacts of restricted water availability. Read Online |
Cornwall CCD & England Rugby Coaching Awards 2023/24
Cornwall CCD & Award Courses 2023/24
Kids First Tag
Bodmin 20th September https://bit.ly/431IvTy
Kids First Contact
Bodmin August 14th– September 6th https://bit.ly/3PAGr1N
Penryn August 23 rd – September 20th https://bit.ly/436zJDM
Saltash August 30th – September 25th https://bit.ly/3PEswHX
Principles of Scrummaging
Truro 4th October https://bit.ly/3D7Gzyt
Saltash 9th October https://bit.ly/4304sCf
Redruth 30th October https://bit.ly/3rfMJcP
England Rugby Coaching Award
Hayle Academy Saturday 30th Sept 2023 – Saturday May 11th 2024 https://bit.ly/3PGhuln
Callywith College Sunday Oct 22nd 2023 – Sunday June 2nd 2024 https://bit.ly/44fbNQ8
Launceston RC Sunday Nov 26th 2023 – Sunday June 30th 2024 https://bit.ly/44nUWux
Any questions please contact your club coaching co-ordinator, or Wayne Reed, Daubroy Delahunty (Game Development) or Tony Knightsbridge (Age Grade).
Community Game Update 13th June
| Community Game Update Read Online |
| 1. ACTION REQUIRED RFU 2023 Hybrid Annual General Meeting (AGM) The RFU will hold its 2023 Annual General Meeting (AGM) on Friday 16 June 2023 at 18:00. Find out how to attend and vote in this piece. GMS Updates: Changes, Support & More Find out about updates to GMS, the season switch-over, support trainers, the GMS pre-season checklist and upcoming GMS webinars. Age Grade Registration 2023/24 – Opens 3rd July From Monday 3 July, parents, players and clubs will be able to start registering age grade players for the new season. Find out more information and support available in this section. Age Grade Regulations 2023/24 & Summer Framework 2023 View the permitted activity for June 2023, as per the Summer Activity Guide, as well as the new Age Grade Regulation 15. Have you visited the RFU’s Tackle Height Hub yet? To support players, coaches, referees, volunteers and CBs with tackle height changes ahead of the 2023/24 season, a comprehensive range of resources are being produced. Find out about the latest updates on the Tackle Height Hub in this section. 2. ACTION IF OF INTEREST Honda Volunteer Hospitality registrations for Summer Series As part of the Honda Volunteer Recognition Programme, club volunteers who have match tickets to one of England Men’s Summer Series home fixtures can register for up to four tickets each for pre-match hospitality. Review your waste collection costs One particular area that has seen price hikes in recent months is waste collection. To support clubs in keeping their costs as low as possible, we’ve teamed up with a procurement group to help combat financial pressures. Find out more in this piece. 3. FOR AWARENESS 2023/24 League Structures and fixtures update The Men’s RFU Leagues have been finalised and the Women’s RFU Leagues are going through the final checks and will be published soon. The fixtures for the Men’s leagues for 2023/24 have now been published and can be viewed on the England Rugby website and on GMS. 2023 GMS Club Safeguarding Audit will go live on 3rd July The Safeguarding Audit is an annual, mandatory requirement for all clubs who offer Age Grade activities, or who wish to have 17-year olds playing up into the adult game (Reg 21.1.6). Find out more in this section. Community club recipes for success As part of our #PlayTogetherStayTogether campaign, we’ve created a number of resources to help clubs who may be thinking about providing some form of Touch Rugby, from one-off events to regular sessions, over the summer. #GrassrootsBeauts There have been some brilliant efforts submitted for the #GrassrootsBeauts segment on ITV’s Premiership Highlights show this season, check out some of the best in this compilation. Read Online |
Cornwall U20’s out number other counties in SW squad.
Following the SW trials that were held in Bristol a few weeks ago, the SW selectors have selected a squad of 23 players who will face the other regions over the weekend on 10 / 11 June.
The games will be played at Broadstreet RFC, Coventry where the SW team will take on London and the Southeast, with the winners playing the winners of the North v Midlands.
12 players from Cornwall were originally selected for the SW trials and 6 have made it through to represent Cornwall in the SW squad, the biggest representation of any of the SW counties.
The 6 players are –
Matt Boothby – St Austell
Matt Pritchard – Falmouth
Connor Triggs – Truro
Lewis Bostock – Truro
Jack Statton – Launceston
Harvey Penhallurick – Falmouth
Although the accommodation cost is met by the SW, the travel expenses are not,and we thank Trelawny’s Army for their contribution to the cost from their bursary grant.
Huge congratulations to the 6 selected in the SW squad and we wish you well and know that you will do yourself and Cornwall proud.
Colin Hatch
Cornwall U20 Team Manager
Further England honours for Cornwall U20’s Nat Dart.
Cornwall U20 player Nat Dart received a further national honours when he was recently
selected to play for the England Deaf XV v Wales.
The game took place at Cambridge RFC with England emerging winners 41 – 7. To add to
the great win Nat scored an impressive 21 of the 41 points for England.
It is a fantastic achievement for Nat to represent England at this level, and proves once
again if you are determined, put in the effort you can achieve your goals.
A huge congratulation to Nat on his selection from the whole Cornwall U20 squad and staff
as well as the from everyone involved with the CRFU.
Colin Hatch
Cornwall U20 Team Manager
RFU League Structures – 2023-24
| The Men’s RFU Leagues have been finalised and the Women’s RFU Leagues are going through the final checks and will be published soon. The key headlines for the 2023-24 season in the men’s leagues are: 1. Leagues will be forwarded to you by your Organising Committee (OC). 2. Options have been provided for later start dates at some levels based on local situations. In Men’s leagues the ultimate decision (and responsibility) for league start dates will rest with the OC, and this may differ by region. Please refer to information from your OC. 3. The league season will finish on Saturday 6 April which is later than 2022-23, in response to club feedback. 4. Men’s RFU League fixtures will be published on Monday 12 June. 5. The Papa Johns Men’s Community Cup window will remain at the end of the league season for next season. However, a rapid review of the Cup is currently underway that will have wide input from stakeholders, in order to make some changes to next season to make it easier for clubs to plan and enter. This should mitigate much of this season’s feedback. Further changes to the Cup, including if it should move within the season, are not anticipated until the scheduled review of Men’s structures next season (for implementation in 24/25). 6. There are no major changes to Women’s RFU Leagues and Cups. Leagues are currently being finalised and fixtures will be published on Friday 23 June. |
| Men’s and Women’s Structured Season |
RFU Community Game Update 16 May
| Community Game Update Read Online |
| 1. ACTION REQUIRED Deadline to upload fixtures – just a few days left! The deadline for uploading club arranged fixtures via the Team Management module on the Game Management System is nearly upon us. Only fixtures uploaded by 26 May 2023 can be attributed towards a club’s new international ticket entitlement. Have you visited the RFU’s Tackle Height Hub yet? A comprehensive range of online resources, guidance documents, training videos and face-to-face training opportunities are being created by the RFU and can be found on the RFU Tackle Height Hub. Age Grade Regulations 23/24 & Summer Framework 2023 Find out more about Regulation 15 for 2023/24 and the Summer Age Grade Framework for 2023 in this piece. Regulation 9 – Pitch-side Emergency First Aid and Immediate Care Standards Following on from the implementation of the pitch-side emergency first aid and immediate care standards in the age grade game in the 2022-23 season, these standards will now be introduced across the adult community game from the start of the 2023/24 season. 2. ACTION IF OF INTEREST Join our nationwide network of Tackle Champions Tackle Champions will play a key role in developing a community of coaches able to inspire a culture of the highest quality tackle technique and decision making in players. Find out more in this piece. Platform 4 Rugby User Groups – register your interest Platform 4 Rugby’s user groups for the upcoming season are the perfect opportunity for collaborative working to help shape our Game Management System and other digital platforms. We are looking for volunteers with different levels of knowledge and experience. Find out how to register your interest in getting involved. National Volunteers’ Week – 1-7 June Volunteers’ Week is being celebrated between Wednesday 1st and Tuesday 7th June. It provides a great opportunity to recognise the contribution volunteers make and to say thank you! 3. FOR AWARENESS Papa Johns Community Cup Round Up The Papa Johns Community Cup came to a close on 7th May, with 29 thrilling finals having taken place over two weekends at Twickenham, StoneX Stadium, Sixways Stadium and The Darlington Arena. Read about the finals and watch some of the brilliant stories from the teams in this piece. UK Concussion Guidelines for Grassroots Sport The RFU welcomes the launch of the Government’s UK Concussion Guidelines for Grassroots Sport; guidelines the RFU has been involved in developing. Read more about the guidelines in this article. Community club recipes for success In July 2022, a study was undertaken to establish what has contributed to operating successful community clubs. Read about the findings in this piece. Game Management System (GMS) maintenance In preparation for the start of the 23/24 season, the Game Management System (GMS) will be taken offline in mid-June to allow for a short period for system maintenance to be conducted. Read Online |
Tackle Safe Clinics & England Rugby Mentoring Awards
Good Morning
I wanted to make you aware that the THC’s and ERMA courses for Cornwall and Devon are now live for registering on GMS. Can I please ask you to promote and share them with clubs and via any social media channels possible.
I have attached information regarding the ERMA courses that contains a link to search for local courses and I have also attached locations details with individual club booking links as well. Official posters will be shared next Wednesday I believe via England Rugby official social media.
Any questions please ask.
Reedy
THC Courses
| 12th June | Tiverton RFC | Smudge Adult | https://bit.ly/3HXpf1Z |
| 14th June | Ivybridge RFC | Reedy | https://bit.ly/3NGJ6pB |
| 19th June | Barnstaple RFC | Reedy | https://bit.ly/3nr8WDt |
| 26th June | St. Ives RFC | Reedy | https://bit.ly/44v5jx2 |
| 3rd July | Tavistock RFC | Reedy | https://bit.ly/427gWsq |
| 5th July | Truro RFC | Reedy Adult | https://bit.ly/3nsuShk |
| 17th July | Torquay Athletic RFC | Reedy Adult | https://bit.ly/416PpWq |
| 19th July | St. Austell RFC | Reedy | https://bit.ly/44tXfwj |
| 31st July | Wadebridge Camels RFC | Reedy | https://bit.ly/3nrk6rP |
| 2nd August | Sidmouth RFC | Smudge | https://bit.ly/3nsWTW0 |
| 15th July | Crediton RFC | https://bit.ly/41vdQNx |
| 29th July | Bodmin RFC | https://bit.ly/41zqMSC |
| 30th July | Ivybridge RFC | https://bit.ly/3pz67ko |
