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Trelawny’s Army grateful for donation

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Firstly, may I take this opportunity to thank all those at the CRFU involved in the decision to pass on the generous “gift” of all of your surplus O’Neill’s Shirts. Colin Hatch brought them to us last week whilst we were on route to Redruth RFC.

We sorted and graded them and they were on sale at Penryn RFC and Camborne RFC over the weekend. They are already proving popular.

The income they will provide will secure much of our future sponsorships in 2025/2026.

Secondly I wish to congratulate all those involved in the Ladies Cornwall Cup competition at Penryn RFC. It was a truly joyous occasion with a feast of running rugby and skills. Your CRFU gazebo is a welcome addition to the rugby scene in Cornwall.

Lee Maher, Tanya Thomas, Jane Bell, Jo Holden, Kevin Thomas & Steve Murley with the CRFU gazebo.

You will see a few photos from Saturday attached including the Gilbert Match-ball presentation to Jo Holden as well as your group photo. Please feel free to share/post them.

And finally please pass on our congratulations to the U.20 squad and coaches on their win over Gloucestershire yesterday. It was a notable performance over a County that produces good young players.  

Kind Regards

Phil Trevarton

TASC Chairman

Lexi’s End 2 End Challenge

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Cornwall RFU Women’s Lead & Women’s County Head Coach Jo Holden had the honour of meeting the incredible lexi.alyx.chambers at Penryn Rugby Football Club last night, after completing the mammoth journey from John O’Groats to Lands End.

It was only right finishing with the best County in the Country that she received a bit of Cornish history to take home with her.

There is still time to donate to Lexi and show her your support as she finishes with Exeter Chiefs Women on Sunday.

Lexi’s End2End link

Let’s show how generous the Cornish can be.

Cornwall U20’s into SW Squad

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Following the recent SW trials held at Hartpury College Gloucestershire, 5 Cornwall
U20 players have been selected into the SW squad for a further training session on
Sunday 9th June.
This further session will be held at Hartpury College once again which will mean
many hours on the road once again for the Cornwall players!!
The 5 selected players are –

Angus Williams – Penryn
Pete Harris – St Austell
Will Perkin – St Ives
Idris Logan – Helston
Jack Statton – Launceston

The following week the SW squad will be travelling to Warwickshire where they will
compete against the other regions within the country.

Ben Smith- Redruth, Idris Logan- Helston, Will Perkin-St Ives, Pete Harris- St Austell
and Jacob Chapple- Redruth, pictured above at the recent trials.


The Cornwall U20 section and players would like to thank the CRFU and Trelawny’s
Army (TASC) for their support during this process.
I am sure you will join me in congratulating all the players who attended the trials.
Colin Hatch


Cornwall U20 Team Manager.

Notice of C.R.F.U. AGM

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Notice is hereby given that the Annual General Meeting of Cornwall RFU will be held on Wednesday 26th June 2024, 7 pm at Camborne RFC.

We look forward to welcoming members from our clubs on the evening.

Reminder only appointed representatives of clubs may vote.

The Management Board is very keen to ensure that every club has a voice on the CRFU and for this
to happen it is essential for your club representative to attend meetings and to involve themselves
fully in the work of their chosen committees.

Please find agenda in the link

Jane Bell

Hon.Sec Cornwall RFU

Cornwall name side to face Kent

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Cornwall have named their side to play Kent on Saturday. The side sees a few changes to that which played Surrey at Esher last Saturday. Kick-off at Charlton Park RFC is 2 pm.

In the backs, Harry Larkins comes in for Matt Shepherd, who is unavailable, whilst Lewis Thomas starts in place of Jack Statton who is at the Under 20 SW trials.

Josh Semmens comes in for Sam James in the centre. In the pack, Edd Pascoe moves into the second row, with Hugo Culverhouse dropping to the bench. At no.8 Mark Bright starts with Brad Howe moving across to flanker.

On the bench, Ethan Pearce-Cowley comes in as do Rhys Williams and Will Hennessey

Cornwall: Harry Larkins (Camborne), Lewis Thomas (Redruth), Duncan Tout (Tonbridge Juddians), Josh Semmens (Pirates Ams), Dan Tyrrell (St. Austell), Fraser Honey (Rams), CJ Boyce (St. Austell); Tommy-Lee Southworth, Ben Priddey (Capt), Jon Drew (all Camborne), Pat Walton (Plymouth Albion), Edd Pascoe (Redruth), Brad Howe (Plymouth Albion), Sam Stevens (Redruth), Mark Bright (Richmond).

Replacements: Ethan Pearce-Cowley (Launceston), Declan Prowse (Camborne), Hugo Culverhouse (Guernsey), Adam Hughes, Jordan Nicholls (both Camborne), Rhys Williams (Redruth), Will Hennessey (Truro).

Travelling Reserves: Albert Horne (Launceston), Will Tanswell (Camborne).

St. Agnes in last eight

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St. Agnes welcome Ashley Down Old Boys this Saturday in the last eight of their Papa Johns Cup competition. Kick-off 2:30 pm at Enys Park.

Redruth Albany’s Great Tommy Sleep Out for RBLI

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Redruth Albany RFC are currently fundraising for the above event, scheduled to take place on Saturday 9th March 2024. We have a team of 8 of us sleeping out on Trewirgie field, and as this cause is in aid of Homeless Veterans, Albany are signatories to the Armed Forces Covenant (with a couple of Veterans on the team) we thought it only fitting to do what we could.

To that end, we are opening the clubhouse for the Ireland Vs England game, and donating £1 of every pint sold, to this cause.

If the County board could help support/publicise, we would be grateful!

Simon Ferguson

Redruth Albany RFC

Can you help by donating to their JustGiving Fundraising Page: https://www.justgiving.com/page/redruth-albany-1705950358517

Sponsor’s Spotlight

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Today we turn the spotlight on Ann’s Pasties

The CRFU are delighted to welcome back Ann’s Pasties as one of our valued sponsors for 2024.

Here is a little background information on our pasty provider;

About Ann

All of the women in my mother’s Cornish family traditionally made pasties.

I learned to make pasties in an emergency, I was summoned by my mother, Hettie Merrick, a professional pasty-maker, to a Breton agricultural fair, where demand was dramatically and unexpectedly outstripping supply at a stall mother had set up. At the end of a day of pasty-making, I could crimp them as fast as my mother, which was the perfect confidence boost and eye opener into the fact that there was a business to be had producing a good Cornish pasty.

Soon afterwards I began making pasties for my neighbours, who’d bring gifts of fresh fish they’d caught or vegetables they’d grown, and who treated my living room like a waiting room, sitting around gossiping over cups of tea if the pasties hadn’t come out of the oven yet.

Inspired by the response, mother and I started selling our wares from a stall at the nearby market town of Helston. We soon found business good enough to graduate to a shop in Porthleven. But when juggling family and pasty shop became too much, my husband transformed the garage of our house at the Lizard into a pasty kitchen, where I was able to crimp with one eye on the family.

The business has since flourished, so much so that my son Fergus has stepped in to help keep up with the demand! The family recipe lives on through Fergus who makes a pasty so good even mother approves!

Link to online pasty shop

RFU Community Game Update October 2023

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Community Game Update
  
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  1.ACTION REQUIRED
Community Rugby Support Fund 2023/24
 The Community Rugby Support Fund for 2023/24 is now live! The purpose of this fund is to support voting member clubs, CBs and referee societies who are in greatest financial need and the window to make a claim closes on 7 November.

 Love Rugby – our new campaign for girls rugby
 Love Rugby is a new campaign to give girls a voice and raise visibility that rugby union is a game where girls belong. Find out more about the campaign.

 #PlayTogetherStayTogether – 2023/24 Season
 Play Together, Stay Together is back for the new season and we want you to get involved! Remind yourself of the campaign goals and find out how to get involved in this section.

 135K and counting! Keep registering your Age Grade players
 Over 135,000 Age Grade players are now registered for 2023/24 – an increase of 35,000 since the last Community Game Update! Check out the support on offer to help get your players registered!

 2. ACTION IF OF INTEREST
Have your say on the next steps of Adult Registration
 Ahead of the start of Adult Registration next season, the RFU is seeking the views of players and those involved in player/team selection on the proposed next steps in the implementation of Adult Registration.

 Inclusion & Diversity Survey, Toolkit & Policy Guidance
 Check out the latest Inclusion & Diversity updates, including taking part in a survey, a new I&D toolkit to help the community game and more guidance on the Gender Participation Policy.

 Reduce your club’s running costs with the RFU Buying Group
 The RFU Buying Group is a service to support RFU Clubs in significantly reducing their running costs and helping your club to access the best value services from a broad range of approved suppliers. Find out more in this piece.

 Upcoming Club Support Webinars
 The RFU Club Support team have a number of upcoming webinars to support clubs across a huge range of topics. Find out more information about each webinar and sign up!

 Have you used the Club Health Check yet?
 As part of our wider ‘Flourishing Rugby Communities’ strategy to help clubs ensure they are healthy both now and in the future, we have created an online self-assessment health check tool. Discover more and access the tool.

 3. FOR AWARENESS
RFU Pregnancy and Match Official Guidance
 This guidance document outlines points to consider in relation to match officials who are pregnant or have recently given birth. Removing barriers to match officiating benefits the whole game – check out the guidance now.

 GMS – Email verification & inputting fixtures
 With the season underway, it’s a great time to make sure that individuals have a unique, verified email address on GMS and that your fixtures are being inputted on the system.

 Player Welfare resources
 Read the latest updates from the RugbySafe programme, from the updated HEADCASE toolkit to the case studies recently covered in the media.

 DBS Update Service
All staff and volunteers that require a DBS check will now be prompted to join the DBS Update Service. Find out more about the process and how it works in this section.

 Community News – monthly round up
In case you missed them, check out some of the top community rugby stories over the last month from the England Rugby website.

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