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All three rounds of the 2021 Development National Touch Series are now fully booked! The appetite for competition seen across the country in recent weeks has been reflected in the high demand for places, and all 24 places each of the three events have been snapped up in record time, more than three weeks before Round 1. Clubs who are interested in competing in the Development ...

England Touch Referees have begun using an appointments App to manage referee admin for the coming 2021 season. It is hoped this will drastically reduce the amount of admin and forms that referees currently need to fill out to show expression of interest for attending an event. Spond is a multi-platform app that will be used for managing appointments and availability for ETA e ...

The England Touch Association (ETA) is the Governing Body for Touch in England and is passionate about ensuring that Touch is truly a sport for all. It wants to ensure that everyone has an equal opportunity to participate in the sport. As part of this process, ETA is looking for an EDI Officer, to start with immediate effect. This position will be a voluntary role and will wo ...

England Touch has confirmed that Touch Rugby will be moving into Stage 6: National in the Association’s Return to Play protocols this Monday, May 17th. Not only will the ETA be able to take its planning for the National Touch Series into the next stage – CLICK HERE for details for how your club can enter the 2021 Development NTS – but the High Performance training camps will b ...

The three Development National Touch Series events are open for teams to book their places. Dates and locations are as follows: R1 Sun 27/06/21 Banbury RFC R2 Sat 10/07/21 Banbury RFC R3 Sun 01/08/21 Oxford RFC Costs per entry are £250 per team per event. This covers venue and field hire, photography, medical p ...

By ETA High Performance athletes and EDI Working Group members Haniyyah Rahman-Shepherd and Niki Bird. This year’s Ramadan is coming to an end for Muslims around the world. Haniyyah Rahman-Shepherd and England international Niki Bird got together in early May to talk about how Haniyyah, as both a Muslim and England Touch High Performance athlete, navigates fasting and trainin ...

UK Coaching, in collaboration with Resuscitation Council UK, St John Ambulance and Joe Humphries Memorial Trust, has produced a free toolkit to help people understand how to respond and act quickly to a sudden cardiac arrest (SCA). An SCA is when the heart suddenly and unexpectedly stops pumping blood around the body and vital organs due to an abnormal heart rhythm. Each year ...

The England Touch Association is launching new Foundation Level coaching courses to give both primary and secondary school teachers the knowledge, resources and ongoing support they need to develop a Touch Rugby offering at their school. These new courses, the first of which will be held in mid-May, have been developed as part of the England Touch Association’s ‘Growing the Ga ...

By ETA High Performance Athletes and EDI Working Group members Haniyyah Rahman-Shepherd and Niki Bird Over the past few weeks, Muslims around the world have been observing Ramadan. Haniyyah Rahman-Shepherd is amember of the England Touch High Performance Pathway and as such, has to balance the demands of training and playing whilefasting, as part of her faith. Haniyyah grew u ...