EasyFundraising Partnership

10th November 2017

Christmas is coming – generate donations to #saveGBWR or for your local club by shopping online! We’ve teamed up with easyfundraising to give the GBWR community, from the GB team to our local clubs, access to an unlimited source of free funding: you can raise funds simply by shopping online. EasyFundraising is the UK’s biggest retail fundraising platform having raised over £18m for 100,000 good causes! Including over 14,000 sports causes who have ...

Sevenoaks Rugby Community Lead the Way

8th November 2017

On Saturday Sevenoaks 1st XV got the better of their N Kent friends, Gravesend, chalking up a 26-9 win at the Paddock. This home win puts Oaks in 6th place in the London 1 South, but the weekend was notable for other reasons. Club member Roger Alwen, who was on the 2012 Olympic Advisory Board, and former RFU President Robert Horner, also an Oaks member, had brought to the club’s attention the plight of GB Wheelchair Rugby, which lost all of its UK Sport funding last December. Togeth...

Sevenoaks RFC raising money GBWR this weekend

2nd November 2017

A cracking weekend of rugby is set for the weekend and Sevenoaks Rugby Club expect a huge crowd at Knole Paddock, Plymouth Drive as the Sevenoaks Rugby 1st XV hosts Gravesend I and the 4th XV hosts Maidstone III. The club will also welcome members of the GB Wheelchair team as part of a commitment to help the team raise the funds to get to the World Championships in 2018 and beyond that to the Paralympic Games in 2020. GB is bouncing back from the news that UK Sport will not ...

Appointment of Compliance & Membership Officer

1st November 2017

When I wrote to you last week I outlined some of the issues we have experienced in our head office and apologised for the impact that is having on the NGB. You will understand that I am very prudent with the number of people I employ to manage the business of the NGB. There is, however, a balance to be had with keeping our costs, and thus number of employees to a minimum, whilst having enough people with the right skills to do the jobs necessary to ensure we meet our obligations as a Limited Com...

NOTIFICATION OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2017

1st November 2017

The Calling Notice and Supporting Papers for the AGM are attached for downloading. Please note that the Annual Report & Financial Statements will be uploaded as soon as they are signed off by our Auditors which is expected to be early next week. David Pond, CEO Calling Notice 2017 ...