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Friday April 15, 2011
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Dear
Tricia,
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Welome to April's CB
newsletter.
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Community Rugby
Coaches
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Click here
to read John Steele's letter regarding Community Rugby Coaches
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RFU Yearbook 2011/12
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The
deadline for updates onto RugbyFirst for the RFU Yearbook will be Sunday
June 26, 2011. Please help us by encouraging your member clubs to
check their details are updated and accurate before the Yearbook is
published – particularly clubs at league levels 7-12. To access RugbyFirst,
click here http://clubs.rfu.com/clubs/
For technical assistance please contact Chris on the RugbyFirst help desk rugbyfirstsupport@therfu.com or 020 8831 6651. The
Helpdesk operates on the following days and times – Monday, Wednesday,
Friday and Saturday from 1100 – 1500 and 1600 – 1930.
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Player Development
Roles
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The
Rugby Football Union is looking to appoint four Honorary Chairmen to
co-ordinate the player development programmes within the community game and
the aspirational playing programme. Read information about these
voluntary roles here
and please feel free to pass on this information to anyone who may be
interested.
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Improve Twickenham
Station
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The RFU
has launched a petition calling for the redevelopment of Twickenham station
in time for the Rugby World Cup (RWC) in 2015. We expect over 600,000
people from around the world to come and visit Twickenham for the
tournament. The majority of fans and visitors who will travel to
Twickenham will arrive by train and use Twickenham station. The station is
unwelcoming, lacking facilities and coping with large numbers of people on
match days is a challenge. While London has invested heavily in infrastructure
for the Olympic Games in 2012, Twickenham station has yet to see any
improvements.
The RFU is hoping that all key partners will want to work together to
deliver a Rugby World Cup of which Twickenham, the Home of England Rugby,
can be proud. To register your support please go to www.ipetitions.com/petition/twickenham.
We are also looking for clubs to write to their local MPs in order to raise
the profile of this issue at a national level. If you feel that your clubs
would be able to help in this way, please contact Nicola Sheldon on nicolasheldon@rfu.com or 0208 831 6736 for a template
letter.
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Safeguarding
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As you
know Nic Scott left the RFU on March 25 to join Manchester City
Football Club. All Safeguarding matters – cases, courses, CRB checks
and policy issues – will continue to be managed by Ann Hutchins and the safeguarding team at Twickenham.
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Equity &
Inclusion Projects
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View and download the list of
individuals who lead on Equity and Inclusion Projects: Equity
and Inclusion Interim Arrangements from March 25, 2011.
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Teacher training and
resources
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You can find a new Key Stage 3
resource available to download on rfu.com/schools. It has been created
for teachers to deliver the outcomes and key concepts of the National
Curriculum for PE for years 7, 8 and 9. Each scheme of work has been
developed in collaboration with Coach and Player Development and consists
of a ten-week programme of progressive lesson plans with informative
illustrations, support documents and a guide on how to use them.
Building on the success of previous years, we are pleased to bring you the
2011 Rugby Teacher Development Days. This year’s events will again be
supported by former England head coach Brian Ashton, and the days are
suitable for teachers and coaches of every level. Click here for more
details
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Schools Forums
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The RFU Schools Development Team
are coming to a school near you in May.
All school personnel are welcome join us to meet with colleagues, hear from
the ERFSU and RFU on hot topics and discuss current developments in schools
rugby.
Tuesday, May 3 – North - Durham School
Thursday, May 5 – London SE - St John’s, Leatherhead
Tuesday, May 10 – South West - Kings School, Taunton
Thursday, May 12 – Midlands - Oakham School
To join us on the dates above please email schools@therfu.com
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Sport Relief 2012
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Following the massive success of
Red Nose day on March 12, 2011, Rugby Clubs are being offered the
opportunity to host a Sport Relief Mile event on March 25, 2012. Download the Sport Relief
2012 flyer to be sent to clubs via the next Grassroots
ezine. Please encourage relevant clubs in your patch to register their
interest via the website www.sportrelief.com/the-mile/organise-a-mile. Rugby clubs who hosted miles in 2010 found them a great
way to promote their clubs and being part of the 2012 event will be a great
way to keep the focus on rugby after the RBS 6 Nations and before the
Olympics.
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Tours and CASCs
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Many CASC registered rugby clubs
have a junior section which will sometimes go on a tour involving overnight
stays and playing clubs in other areas of the UK or overseas. The juniors
will usually carry out fund raising activities with the support of the club
to enable them to afford to go on the tour. The club will often contribute
something and travel, meals and accommodation expenses will be paid out of
the funds raised and its own funds. Under the CASC rules the club can only
pay ”reasonable travel expenses incurred by players and officials
travelling to away matches”. HMRC take a strict line on this and do not
consider that playing matches away from the club on tour qualify as “away
matches” so that there would be a problem with the club paying the travel
costs.
Furthermore there would be an issue with the payment by the club of meals
and accommodation. If all of these costs were met out of funds raised by
the juniors themselves this would avoid the problem. The practical issue is
how to raise the funds without the club’s financial involvement. A
possible simple approach would be for one of the club members to open a
bank account in his or her name to collect funds for the junior members
going on tour. These funds would not be held on behalf of the club but for
those going on tour and the funds raised would not belong to the club
neither would they be recorded in the clubs accounts. They would be dealt
with separately so that HMRC could not argue that the club was paying for
the tour costs.
There may very well be other more complicated solutions if for any reason
this approach is not acceptable. This issue does not only apply to junior
tours but to any tour made by club members and great care is needed to
avoid the “expenses” rule pitfall under the CASC
scheme.
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Barclays Community
Sports Award (UK)
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Barclays Spaces for Sports has
announced the launch of its new Community Sports Award. The award is a
new award to recognise the outstanding achievements of individuals and
groups that use sport to benefit communities across the UK. Each month, the
winner of the award will receive £1,000 for their group or organisation, a
limited edition trophy and will be entered into the end of season award to
win a further £5,000. Nominations can be made for any individual, group of
individuals or not-for-profit organisation.
All entries must be made via www.barclayscommunitysportsaward.com on or before 5.00 pm on the 20th of each month.
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If you
have any 'hot topics', queries or feedback about this communication, please
contact me.
Kind regards,
Carole
Carole
Thelwall-Jones
Volunteer Manager
Email: carolethelwall-jones@rfu.com
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of the CB Send Out is to provide a single RFU/RFUW e-newsletter for
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