Return to Play timetable for end of spring lockdown

England Touch has announced the timetable for Return to Play based on the UK Government’s current plans to scale down the spring lockdown.

At the time of writing (Friday, March 5th) England Touch is currently in Stage 1: Prepare of our six-stage Return to Play protocols.

Further to the recent announcement that organised sport will be possible across England from March 29th, England Touch will be moving to Stage 4: Local on the same day.

This means that the following will be possible:

• Full Touch rules in training with groups of up to 30 people
• Club training, including intra-club matches
• Local leagues, ie teams from the same town
• Fixtures between two teams from different towns
• Local tournaments of up to four teams

Should the reduction in Covid-19 cases continue and the UK Government move to its next step out of lockdown on April 12th, then England Touch will move into Stage 5: Regional on April 26th.

This will include:

• Regional tournaments of up to eight clubs
• The provision of Regional Development Series
• In-person coaching and referee courses at regional locations

Throughout the Return to Play process England Touch’s affiliated clubs are reminded to ensure that all of your risk assessments, operational plans and all other documentation are fully up-to-date.

All of this can be downloaded from www.englandtouch.org.uk/coronavirus

CLICK HERE to remind yourselves of all the England Touch Return to Play stages – it has been a while, after all!

In the meantime we wish everyone in the Touch community the very best of health.