Yorkshire RFU has two Representatives who are elected by the Clubs in the County to sit on the RFU Council. They also participate in Sub-Committees of the RFU which report to the Community Game Board. Keep checking back on a monthly basis as your Reps keep you up to date with relevant matters from the RFU.

July 2019


The next meeting of RFU Council is on Friday, 13th September. Community Game Board meets on 29th August.

This has been a quiet month with both Jim & Ted taking the opportunity to have a well earned break !! August promises to be a busier month.

RFU Strategy Refresh – with Bill Sweeney taking over as the new CEO of the RFU he is taking the opportunity to look at the overall strategy of the RFU with a view to publishing a review of the Strategy when the RWC comes to and end in November. A small group of Board Members and Council Members, along with Staff Representatives have formed a working group and the next stage of the process is a number of meetings with Council as a whole to consider the RFUs Strategy over the next five years. The first of these meetings will take place on the morning prior to the England v Wales game on Sunday, 11th August. We will ensure that details of the new Strategic Plan are distributed when finalised.

RFU Website – some of you will be aware that this has undergone a re-vamp designed to bring it “up to date”.  Inevitably, there will some parts of the website that will not function as previously and, if you find an instance of this then please accept our apologies but we hope you will be patient as things are updated. If you do find a problem then please let us know and we can report it to the IT Team at Twickenham

Rugby World Cup Warm Up Games – as you will be aware England have a number of Warm Up Games planned prior to their departure for Japan. If you have missed them, then the dates are :

11/08/19 – England v Wales (Twickenham 14:00)
17/08/19 – Wales v England (Cardiff 14:25)
24/08/19 – England v Ireland (Twickenham 15:00)
06/09/19 – England v Italy (Newcastle 19:45)

We hope that you have all got your tickets for the game in Newcastle!!  Your Council Reps are always trying to get games staged in the North of England and it really helps if we can go to Twickenham and say “Look at the crowd numbers”. It has also been announced that this year’s “Value the Volunteer” will be hosted at this match.  The County’s most Valued Volunteer will be invited to the match with a lunch planned for the team’s hotel, pre-match dinner, complimentary seats and overnight accommodation. As soon as we know who the volunteer will be, we’ll let you know.



Activities in July (Jim Chapman)

Date

01
YRFU Annual General Meeting (Morley RFC)
02
Travel Funding Working Group (Twickenham)
03
England Colleges RFU – Board Meeting (Twickenham)
10
Mental Health in Sport (Aireborough RUFC)
30
Travel Funding Working Group (Conference Call)



Activities in June (Ted Atkinson)

Ted is currently enjoying some well earned rest and recuperation following recent ill health. He will be unavailable for most of July


Ted Atkinson & Jim Chapman
July 2019
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