Welcome to the Haslemere Community Rugby Club Website
2008 - 2009 Season
We have Seniors, Juniors and Mini rugby sections and welcome everyone young and old alike. We have a friendly environment and a strong coaching and management team. Please see the Contacts page for our contact information and club location.
During the rugby season, the Seniors train on Tuesday evenings at 7.30 and play on Saturdays, and the Junior club trains and plays on Sundays from 10am until 12.00. Please come and find us, you will be made very welcome.
We have had a very successful season and have had three seniors teams competing in friendlies and leagues and also junior and mini/midi age groups amounting to some 300 children learning and playing rugby.
Now that the season has finished, we are looking towards next season and as part of preparations we are planning a summer rugby camp for children.
SUMMER RUGBY CAMPS
We will host a Socious Sports Rugby Summer Camp at Haslemere this summer.
You can visit their website at http://www.socioussports.co.uk/findacamp.php?sportID=8
The date for the camp will be Monday 24th August 2009 to Friday 28th August 2009, just two weeks before the start of the season, the course runs from 9.30am to 3.15pm every day for children from under 7s to under 18s. The courses are led by top level international coaches from New Zealand, Australia, South Africa and The Pacific Islands. Cost £125 per child.
Courses focus on core skills and techniques essential for rugby union with particular attention given to :
Ball Handling - Tackling - Game Sense - Ruck/Maul.
Development - Ball into contact - kicking skills - SAQ(speed agility quickness) training - position specific coaching - Nutrition and Lifestyle.
James Phillips from Socioussports will be at the club on Sunday 3rd May to hand out flyers and will be very happy to speak to all of you.
We hope we can get 100 children to the course, and the more kids we have the better opportunity you have to get a course customised to your specific requirements. The summer camp will be widely advertised to attract new players and players from other clubs, please ask everyone to spread the word, anyone can bring a friend.
We will also have an opportunity to organise a coach the coaches session and they have offered to take our senior players for their evening training.
We have chosen a week that allows Haslemere access to the best of the coaches Socioussports are using this summer, and we should see some famous faces on our pitch this summer.
There will be a volunteer committee to support the camp, so please encourage your age group Mums to get involved, we want to make it a real community event and we hope to hold a family barbecue on the Friday afternoon to celebrate a successful week. There is an opportunity for your family to host a coach, you can register on their website.
Message from the Chairman
Since our first game in October 1950, the club has enjoyed a proud tradition of being among the friendliest and most sociable of rugby clubs. Whether you are a parent who wants your children to enjoy the fun that rugby can bring, or a talented aspiring first team player, or someone who just wants to trot round a rugby pitch between closing time at lunchtime and opening time in the evening……you will find many like minded individuals with similar aspirations.
From the age of 6 to our Seniors veterans team, we run more than 15 teams, so there is bound to be somewhere for you to slot in.
We have some of the best pitches in the south of England at our disposal, including a floodlit training pitch which is used on Tuesdays and Thursdays, as well as a superb bar and social area which is the envy of many other clubs who come to visit. This is an ideal place to watch international matches on the clubhouse’s big screen.
We thrive on the volunteer ethos across the whole club, and encourage everyone to pitch in and do their bit. As an example, there are now more than 50 accredited coaches across the whole spectrum of the club, many of whom unwittingly brought their sons up to play and then got caught by the enthusiasm of the membership.
There is also a serious side to the club, and we take such issues as child welfare and health and safety extremely seriously. That is why we are one of only 15 or so clubs in Surrey to have been awarded the RFU’s “Seal of Approval”, an accreditation which demonstrates that the Club has met some pretty stiff standards to show that we have proper procedures in place. One of the key objectives for the Club is to ensure that player welfare and safety is maintained.
Besides the normal frivolity which accompanies the very serious aspect of playing rugby, the Club enjoys an active social programme, culminating in a May Ball at the end of each season. The Seniors have been on tour every year since the early 1980s (sometimes twice in the same season), and usually return with the same number we set out with…..Many of the mini and junior age groups also go touring these days.
So if you live within the Haslemere area and are looking for a rugby club, look no further. Come up to Woolmer Hill, or give one of us a ring to find out more
Malcolm Caird
cairdkm@aol.com
Chairman
RFU.com 
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