Division Three Preview

The BT Super Series returns this weekend with the opening Division Three fixtures of the 2017/18 season. Four teams will go head-to-head at the Stoke Mandeville Stadium this weekend in a packed two days of wheelchair rugby. Ulster Barbarians will be making their Super Series debut in Stoke Mandeville this weekend and will compete against Woodbridge Warriors, Team Solent Hammerheads and Brighton Buccaneers. Brighton will be competing in their second season, having made their debut in the...
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CEO Blog: Reputation is Everything

I am bowled over by the number of individuals and organisations who are going to every length to raise money for us. Our Just Giving campaign now stands at £55k which takes us into the £60k bracket when we add the tax relief. I am really touched by the genuine acts of kindness where people give what they can and where you know that for some, a £5 donation has the same personal value as £100 from someone else. Thank you so much! Mollie Smith has been raising money for most of the year and her...
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Tigers top of the league in Division One

Leicester Tigers took five wins from five to go top of the BT Super Series Division One in the opening league weekend of the season. On home turf at the Leicester Arena, Darren Matthews’ team were unstoppable as they managed to win all of their fixtures to take maximum points. In Pool A, Tigers managed to beat Team Solent Sharks (56-43), Canterbury Hellfire (58-41) and West Coast Crash (48-40) before a semi final win over London Crusaders (51-35). In a rematch of the opening Pool A game, Ti...
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Parents in Sport Week

This week is Parents in Sport week, a chance for all sports teams and organisations to recognise the endless car journeys, early mornings, late nights and the unconditional support on the touchline. Without the mums and dads doing all the work behind the scenes, children up and down the country wouldn’t be able to experience something new and start to forge their own sporting futures. GBWR would like to thank our team of parent volunteers that can be found at almost all of our clubs and ...
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Burn top Division Two after SS1

The BT Super Series Division Two returned with a bang earlier this month when all eight of our second tier sides came together for a packed weekend of games at the Stoke Mandeville Stadium. West Coast Burn couldn’t have wished for a better start to their season, winning all five of their games including a well-contested final with Caledonian Crushers. The Southport-based side managed to beat Liverpool-RGC (48-27), Gloucester Titans (45-34) as well as Crushers (40-33) before continuing th...
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CEO Blog: Invictus Pride

The UK Invictus team depart today for Toronto, this year’s host for the third Invictus games. This incredible event goes from strength to strength and this year sees Romania and the Ukraine join the other 14 nations for the first time. We can take pride in our connection with Invictus: we led on creating a wheelchair rugby version for the inaugural London games in 2014 and our staff and colleagues such as Martyn Salt and Roma Sports have supported all three games. The UK wheelchair rugby te...
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