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North Mids Referees and father-son duo Julian and Theo Edwards last month completed their marathon cycle ride between all the North Midlands RFU clubs, raising over £1000 for two rugby charities in the process. Both the RFU’s Injured Player Fund and the Matt Hampson Foundation provide rehab, living assistance and education services to sportspeople of…
As you should now know, we are at Phase C of the Return to Rugby Road Map. This means that the only rugby is R4R within clubs. In order to ensure a simple unambiguous message, the RFRU is reinforcing the message to societies that under Phase C no formal appointments should be made. Any involvement…
Following the government’s publication of a framework for return to recreational team sport, we have been working to accelerate the safe return of community rugby. Today we can confirm that our action plan to commence a safe and phased return to grassroots rugby activity has been approved by the Department of Digital, Culture, Media and…
Below is a message received from Mike Priestley, Chair of the RFRU. For those who are not sure what RFRU stands for it is Rugby Football Referees Union. The Society is a member and the RFRU represents match officials to the RFU. Following the Government announcement that the move towards a return to recreational sport…
Return to recreational team sport framework The government has announced a framework for the return of recreational team sport which is applicable from Saturday 11 July. This is a welcomed development and a positive step towards the return of some form of competitive rugby. The framework was developed following discussions with other team sports, Sport…
