Saracens is Community Club of the Year
Saracens beat off stiff opposition from Worcester Warriors and Northampton Saints to win this year’s Parliamentary Citizenship Awards yesterday. The judging panel included Derek Wyatt MP, chair of the All Party Parliamentary Rugby Union Group, Paul Farrelly MP and Andy Reed MP. Mark McCafferty, the Chief Executive of Premier Rugby and Miriam Sherlock, the editor of SportBusiness Magazine were also part of the panel. Here’s a video about how the day of the final.
Parliamentary CSR Awards from Glasshouse Partnership on Vimeo.
Positive Futures Rugby Pilot Programme
Positive Futures is a national social inclusion programme that’s funded by the Home Office. If you’re interested to know more about why the Home Office supports this scheme and in particular the role of sport in it, listen to Home Office Minister Vernon Coaker here:
Coaker also had this to say about the programme:
“We know that playing sports like rugby can boost young people’s confidence and self-esteem which in turn helps to make them resilient to the kind of peer pressure that can sometimes lead to drugs, crime and anti-social behaviour. I welcome the contribution that London’s professional rugby clubs are making in bringing sports to deprived neighbourhoods in inner cities and offering young people an alternative.”
PRL clubs Irish, Harlequins and Saracens worked closely with Positive Futures and charity London Active Communities to deliver an eight week programme to 280 boys and girls.
© Sabera Bham 2008
The programme taught touch rugby skills and also offered drug education, leadership and personal development pathways for participants through workshops and within coaching sessions.
© Sabera Bham 2008
Listen here an overview from Gary Stannett, CEO London Active Communities, on the pilot programme:
Listen here to comments from Helen Clayton, Operations Manager Sport Action Zone, on how the pilot was received by participants:
Listen here to some of the responses from coaches and players involved in the summer project:
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About Professional Rugby in the Community
I'm Wayne Morris, Community Manager for Premier Rugby. This blog is a place for me and the Community Development Officers from around the Guinness Premiership to share the community work our clubs are doing and talk about some of the issues we're trying to solve through sport.
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