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England Touch welcomes two new categories into the Masters Nationals in Nottingham this weekend. The Mens 50 category is already established at international level, with a GB team playing in the 2019 Touch World Cup and England being represented at last summer’s European Touch Championships, where they beat Wales, Ireland and Singapore on the way to winning the competition. But ...

The Seniors Division at the 2023 Nationals will include the Mens 30 and Womens 27 categories. After the dominance of the South East Sharks and Southern Samurai for most of the 2010s, the Mens 30 category has become more competitive in recent years, with the South West Saxons winning in memorable fashion at Lady Bay in 2021 and then the Midland Tigers took the title a year later ...

An exciting Opens competition is in prospect for this coming Bank Holiday weekend in Nottingham. With the Nationals switching to the start of the domestic season rather than its previous place at the end, there has been no international tournaments or National Touch Series events to take energy out of the legs, or indeed provide any form guide to follow. So there will be all ey ...

Over the last few months the England Touch management has been working closely with Boing, the country’s leading provider of resources for schools to develop the physical literacy of children and young people through active and inclusive play. England Touch has developed six games for the PlayBox, each specifically designed to develop a core skill that can then be used in organ ...

Ahead of the 2023 domestic season, the England Touch Association has announced the elections of a new Chair and Non-Executive Director at its recent Annual General Meeting. Tim Loveridge is the Association’s new Chair, following the departure of Mark Croston to the Federation of International Touch in September and Justin Conway’s interim period at the helm. Loveridge brings co ...

Ahead of the new season England Touch is announcing the first major changes to individual membership and club/league affiliations in more than five years! Growing our membership base is one of the Association’s key focuses for the next decade: we want to be able to engage and serve more of the people currently participating in Touch at all levels across the country in ways that ...