Annual General Meeting 2020: Advance Notice

Ahead of the formal notification of this year’s AGM, I wanted to give you some background to how the process will work this year. The AGM is planned for 23 September starting at 5pm. Due to the current COVID-19 situation, the AGM will be held virtually via Zoom. Daniel Hook will be in contact with all members of GBWR to provide details of how you can register on Zoom for the AGM. The main business of the AGM is usually to present the Annual Report and Financial Statements and any Resolution...
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Four New Board Members to Be Appointed

GB Wheelchair Rugby (GBWR) is delighted to announce the appointment of four new independent Board members. The new trustees together bring with them extensive experience across high performance sport, commercial, finance and governance. The new Board members will take up their posts following GBWR’s AGM in September and replace a number of long-serving trustees who complete their terms of office. The new recruits, who were identified through an open recruitment process, are: Ka...
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Return to Play: Update

We will be publishing resources and key information on the dedicated Return to Play page I am sure that many of you will have heard the encouraging news that the government has announced that from 25 July indoor sports venues will open. This of course allows for us to begin the process of a return to wheelchair rugby. This does not mean that we can return to full play immediately and by the very nature of our game and...
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Super Series 2019/20: Season Overview

West Coast Crash, DMP Bulls and London Lions Super Series Winners in 2019-2020 GBWR can confirm that the Super Series 2019/20 season will finish based on current league positions. The final weekend of Super Series Division 1 was postponed due to COVID-19 while Divisions 2 and 3 were both completed. After consultation with Division 1 teams the final weekend will not be rescheduled and the season will finish on the current league standings. In Division 1 West Coast Crash and...
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Return to Play: Update

We will be publishing resources and key information on the dedicated Return to Play page In my last update I explained that I was working on guidance to enable clubs to train outdoors if they had access to the appropriate space. Despite producing this guidance and an associated risk template it has now become clear that we will not be in a position to sanction organised club training outdoors. Having explored the issu...
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Member Survey: The Results

We wanted to find out more about our players, officials, coaches and volunteers so we conducted a member survey so you could tell us what you thought about your wheelchair rugby experience. 120 of you responded to tell us how you felt about everything from how you first became involved in wheelchair rugby, what you like most about your club and what motivates you to play, to what things you think could be better and what you would like more of. You told us that: ...
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