RFU Council is due to
meet on Friday, 11th June, followed by the RFU Annual General
Meeting. CGB is scheduled to meet again on 23rd June.
Return To Rugby - Sadly, the Return to Rugby
Roadmap has been delayed as the so called Indian Variant has disturbed the existing plan. Hopefully, the variant can
be contained and the Roadmap can resume.
It has been heartening to see a number of games taking place under
adaptive rules and there is certainly an appetite to get back to the Game we
all love. Many clubs appear to be taking a short break before pre-season
training commences and we wish all clubs the best of luck in their endeavours.
Let’s hope that when pre-season does begin we will have some summer weather to
join it!!
AGM – As you may be
aware the RFU AGM is due to take place on 11th June at 5:00
p.m. this will be a virtual meeting and
all member clubs should have received the details of how to register and access
the meeting. If this is not the case
then please contact CoSec@rfu.com Most
notable at this meeting is that 12 Council Members will, for a variety of
reasons, step down from their roles. This is added to the fact that 10 Council
Members stood down last year – this means almost a 3rd of Council
has changed over the last two years. This is in response to the Governance
Review that was carried out some three years ago.
We hope that as many clubs as possible will “attend”
the AGM.
County Championship Review – this is still on-going and is expected to produce
an interim report to CGB on 23rd June. The review group conducted a number of
Webinars during May in addition to the survey which closed in mid-May. Over 6,500 people responded to the survey and
the Chair of the Review Group (Dr. Tim Miller) has asked that we pass on his
thanks to Yorkshire (players, Coaches and Administrators) who recorded the
highest response to the survey. Well done !!
Activities in May (Jim Chapman)
|
Date |
|
|
05 |
County
Championship Review Group |
|
11 |
County
Championship Review Group - Webinar |
|
17 |
Travel
funding Review Group |
|
18 |
County
Championship Review Group |
|
19 |
Meeting
with Council Elected Board Members |
|
20 |
Meeting
with Council Nominations Sub-Committee Travel
Funding Review Group |
|
24 |
County
championship Review Group – Webinar with YRFU |
|
25 |
Meeting
with Council Elected Board Member (Stephen Pearson) |
|
26 |
County
Championship Review Group |
|
27 |
RFU
Council – Community Rugby Update |
Activities in May(Ted Atkinson)
|
Date |
|
|
11 |
Nominations
Sub-Committee |
|
12 |
Nominations
Sub-Committee (joint meeting with Board Nominations) |
|
19 |
Future
Competitions Structures – Webinar |
|
20 |
Nominations
Sub-Committee (interview with CEO) |
|
22 |
Yorkshire
Academy (Ripon RFC) |
|
24 |
Nominations
Sub-Committee (interviews with retiring Council Members) |
|
25 |
Meeting
with Council Elected Board Member (Stephen Pearson) |
|
27 |
RFU
Council – Update |
|
30 |
Yorkshire
Academy (Doncaster RFC) |
Ted Atkinson & Jim Chapman
May
2021
