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Dear Players & Parents,
Just a brief email to remind you about our summer programme of activities, starting tomorrow (Fri 31st July) with RUGBY FRIDAYS!!
Children aged 7-11 from 9:30am until 12:30pm. Boys and Girls aged 12-17 start at 1pm until 4:30pm.
And dont forget...it's FREE!
Sign up online today and receive a free mini-rugby ball.
To sign up, go here: http://www.millwalllions.com/
cheers
Matt
Matt Shorrock
Youth Chair
Millwall Rugby Club
Dear School Partner,
MILLWALL Rugby Club is offering its first ever ‘Rugby Fridays’ training programme free for young players over the summer holidays.
Every Friday, starting on July 31, the Isle of Dogs club will hold the sessions which are run by Rugby Football Union-qualified coaches and completely free of charge.
The club’s youth chairman Matt Shorrock said: "We’re very much aware that children need activities all year round, not just during the rugby season so Rugby Fridays is a way for us to start providing these opportunities.
"Through the support of Canary Wharf Group and Access Sport, we’ve been able to put together a full programme of activities, which includes a one-week rugby camp at the end of August, that we hope with help grow rugby within the whole of Tower Hamlets."
The sessions will take place on July 31, August 7, 14 and 21 with morning sessions for eight to 12 year olds taking place from 9.30am to noon, and a later session from 1pm to 4pm for 13 to 17 year olds.
Anyone who signs up online before July 31 will receive a free MRFC mini rugby ball – to book a place on the course visit www.millwalllions.com
For more information email youthchair@millwallrugby.com
Further information:
- These events are run under the Canary Wharf Group Summer Sports Programme and in Partnership with Access Sports.
- For the first time, MRFC are providing training and activities for kids all year round, with a full summer programme
- Millwall RFC believe providing activities during the day in school holidays will keep young people off the streets and provide an opportunity to learn something new
- There is an image of the flyer the club is distributing here:
http://www.millwalllions.com/images/youthrugbyfridaysflyer.jpg
Thanks,
Matt
Dear Players & Parents,
Sorry for the second email about this, please see message below from Steven about Friday's flyer mission. email him directly to volunteer on simplyrugby@hotmail.com
Hi Guys!
As you know the season will be starting very shortly, in just a few months time.
So it is crucial that we put Millwall Rugby forward as a very respectable and talented club to get our name out there in the open.
In order to help with this, I am currently organising a recruitment session for Friday the 10th of July to have a few teams of around 3-6 people walk around the island handing flyer's into shops and local businesses, just asking if they can put a few up in the window, or on the counter that sort of thing.
What I plan to do is get around 4-6 groups of 3-6 people. 3 of which current youth players, and 1 coach(and/or adult member) stationed at different areas around the island, and walk your specific routes and finally meeting back at the club house.
you WONT be walking miles to be doing this, as the more groups we get ... the less you have to walk because all the areas are already covered ! Simples !
So I'm asking everyone to please come forward and offer your support but don’t think we will let you go hungry and the club has offered to either pay for fish and chips all round or knock up some smashing food for us all in the club house !
The times i am putting forward are:
4:15-30pm - Meet out side Millwall Club House
4:30pm (possibly sooner providing everyone shows early) - leave in our groups to our destinations/ area's
Around 5:30 To 6:30pm - meet outside clubhouse for home made/take away food and possibly a thrashing on the X-Box.
Your Support is very much needed and appreciated!
Thanks,
Steven Corleys
Jr. Club Captain
Dear Players & Parents,
The youth section has put together a comprehensive list of summer recruitment activities, designed to publicise the club in the community, hopefully bringing in new members and sponsors!
To see the full schedule of activites, click on the link below:
http://www.millwalllions.com/SummerProg0910Final.pdf
The first activity taking place however, is a flyer drop on the Isle of Dogs this Friday 10th July, to all local shops and businesses.
Our Junior Club Captain, Steven Corleys is in charge of organising this event and is in need of volunteers to help him cover Westferry Road (including Barkantine shops), Marsh Wall/East Ferry Road and Manchester Road (including Amsterdam Road).
The volunteers will be setting off at 4pm, to catch the shops while they are still open.
If you are available to help Steven out, please email him direct on simplyrugby@hotmail.com
Perhaps you can do those shops closest to where you live? any volunteers, for how ever long will be greatly appreciated.
The next big flyer drop, will be a residential mailbox one, on both Saturday 8th and Sunday 9th of August. If every club member volunteered to do just their street - we would cover the entire Isle of Dogs in half a day. If you can volunteer for the August flyer drop, please email Kerry Sweetman on kez_sweet@yahoo.co.uk
We plan to hand out Youth, Mens and Venus flyers to these places on both days, however if only youth section players and parents volunteer, we will hand out youth flyers only.
The club needs to be active in the community every year in order to recruit new members to the club...every year. If you've helped out off season recruitment before, then you know how important it is....so dont delay. Volunteer today!
cheers
Matt
Matt Shorrock
Youth Chair
Millwall Rugby Club
Dear Players & Parents,
After years of involvement in the MRFC Youth Section, our current Welfare Officer Pat Salmon has decided to step down fomr her position and focus on family life.
I'd like to thank Pat for her contributions over the years and for her personal advice and assistance as I got up to speed with running the youth section.
We now have a vacancy that desperately needs to be filled.
The role has the capability to grow, depending on your interest but the basic duties are currently limited to completing CRB form for new coaches and volunteers when they join and reviewing MRFC's child policies every quarter to ensure it is up to date and relevant (the RFU usually provides guidance on this).
You can view our current policies here: http://www.millwalllions.com/policies.shtml
This role should only take about 1 hour per week - but realistically, most weeks you wont need to do anything at all.
If you are interested, you will be required to attend a Child Protection workshop - which I am happy to pay for - and you will need to also be CRB checked, yourself.
The club needs a Welfare Officer in place to ensure we are in line with RFU best practices, so if you are a parent or player, who would like to get involved but have limited time to give, this role would suit you.
Please contact me urgently if you are interested in the role, or even if you would like to discuss aspects of it.
thanks
Matt Shorrock
Youth Chair
Millwall Rugby Club
Dear Players & Parents,
I'm very pleased to be sending this email to you as I have two important announcements to make.
Firstly, I'm proud to announce that we have been selected by Access Sport to be one of their partner clubs for the next 2 years.
Access Sport is a not-for-profit organisation that encourages grass-roots youth participation in sport through the existing network of clubs, in partnership with major corporations wanting to align their brands with, and invest in, community sport.
Access Sport works with it's partner sports clubs, over a two year period, helping them to promote fitness and fun through sustainable sporting programmes, which are accessible and affordable to young people.
They will provide us with signficant and sustainable funding over the next two years and will be working with us to ensure that not only are our youth participation numbers increased, but also that of coaches, volunteers and sponsors.
MRFC were specifically approached by Access Sport to become a partner club and that is testimate to the hard work we've all been doing over the last few years to raise our profile.
The second thing I am excited to tell you about is that 3 of our youth players attended the Essex County Representative trials for U17 and U18 this month.
Charlie Brennand (U17), Oliver Jardine (U18) and David Hayward (U18) all made the long trek out to Rochford RFC, which is approximately half way between E14 and France (I kid you not!) and represented the club with great pride and sophistication.
Unfortunately, Charlie was not successful in making to the second round of U17 trials, but he has come away with experience and enthusiasm to go to another level next season. We are all looking forward to improved performances from him as he leads the MRFC U17 team through the Essex U17 league this season.
We are still waiting to hear back from the Essex U18 Head Coach - Dave Paton, believe it or not - in regards to whether Oliver and David have been invited to the second round, however I'm told that both of them made quite an impression on not only the Essex coaches, but the other players as well.
Enthusiasm and team work were qualities not often displayed by our U17 team this season, but both players put that behind them and threw everything into the trials, actively getting involved in all the drills and getting to know the other trialists.
We look forward to hopefully hearing some good news from Mr. Paton this week, and especially seeing improved performances from both boys on the pitch for Millwall 4th XV this season as a result of their trial experience.
Regardless of the selection results for U18s, please join me in congratulating these 3 young men in a fantasic achievement.
Thanks,
Matt Shorrock
Youth Chair
Millwall Rugby Club
