During the pandemic lockdowns hundreds of England Touch members, along with the wider Touch community, made the most of the Association’s programme of development sessions. And now they’re back for 2023, as the ETA looks to support individuals and clubs to ‘Grow the Game’ and ‘Raise Your Game’! ‘Grow the Game’ will be sessions that will be available for England Touch members on ...
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Opportunities to play in 2023
There are a number of great competitions for clubs to enter in 2023 in addition to the National Touch Series. In2Touch Leagues The Spring In2Touch Leagues are just around the corner, and registrations are now open! London leagues are based in the following locations: Early Spring (from March 2023) – Clapham Common, Barnes/Chiswick, Putney/Wandsworth, Hyde Park, Surrey Quays/Can ...
Club Focus – Exeter Touch Rugby
Max Anderson tells James Warrener about how Exeter Touch has become a growing hub of the sport in the south west. How did your club start, and what are you all about? We started Exeter Touch Rugby in 2014, initially focusing on providing an opportunity for people in Exeter to stay active and have fun through community touch rugby sessions, supported by the funding offered by O2 ...
Touch Referees play key role in cutting-edge research
The unique demands made on Touch referees have been put at the heart of significant cutting-edge research undertaken at Edinburgh Napier University. Led by Dr Duncan Mascarenhas, Associate Professor of Sport Psychology and Coaching, the research team sought to investigate how sports officials integrate perception and cognition to manage in-game decisions. Dr Mascarenhas, who is ...
Surrey set early pace as University Touch Championships goes national
Surrey Stags showed just how far they have developed over the last 24 months by taking home the first Cup title of the British Universities and Colleges Sport (BUCS) University Touch Championships national rounds in Nottingham. Coming out of the pandemic, Surrey’s Touch club was – it is fair to say – facing its challenges. But thanks to the hard work of the committee, led by pa ...
University Touch Championships to give England Touch its biggest ever one-day tournament
The first national round of the 2022/23 British Universities and Colleges Sport (BUCS) University Touch Championships will be giving England Touch the Association’s biggest ever single-day domestic tournament. Thirty-two teams have signed up to the event, which will be taking over the University of Nottingham’s Riverside Sports Complex this coming Saturday, with spaces being fu ...
2023 Annual General Meeting - date for your diary
The 2023 England Touch Association Annual General Meeting will be held between 9:30am and 11:00am on Sunday, February 26th, 2023. As with previous AGMs this meeting will be held by Zoom, and will have a formal agenda as well as the opportunity for informal discussions with the ETA's Board and senior management. All members of England Touch are invited to attend and participate ...
England Touch Schools Events - May 2023
Since the England Touch Association (ETA) announced that we would be delivering a schools event for the Independent Schools Association (ISA) on Friday May 12th at Maidenhead Rugby Club, we have since received a number of enquiries from other schools asking if they could join the event. We have agreed with ISA to extend the invite to ALL schools, ie independent and state schoo ...
