by Tom Wisniewski

RFU Marketing Guidance – Women and Girls Rugby

Please find below some opportunities to:
• Develop your Club’s Girls Rugby strategy
• Develop your Club’s Girls Rugby social media
• Upskill your Girls Rugby Volunteer Workforce
• Recognise and Reward your Girls Rugby Volunteer Workforce

RFU Webinar: Giving girls the chance to Love Rugby. On 10th March
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_1Eo-G-BBRA6L3_rBMpaAQw#/registration
Understand how clubs can welcome and keep girls playing in mixed gender teams and/or create girls only opportunities
We are targeting this at mini’s coaches and team managers (U7-U11 teams)

RFU Webinar: Growing your Social Media – Women & Girls Audience (Virtual Workshop) on the 5th March https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/growing-your-social-media-women-girls-audience-tickets-1112577020819?aff=oddtdtcreator

School festival guidance for clubs
School transition festival guide accessible on the Love Rugby pages of our website. https://rfu.widen.net/s/hhk8lvpghp/club-guide-for-marketing-your-club-ar-an-event
• Club guide for hosting a school festival
• Guide for marketing your club at a girls’ event

Honda Volunteer of the Year nominations
With just over a week to go until the closing date for the Honda Volunteer of the Year nominations on Friday 14th February at 5pm, we have received 543 nominations from 238 clubs.
Please consider nominating those key volunteers that have supported Girls Rugby at your club.
Information here

Please consider supporting your continued Girls Rugby Offer at your club by actioning the above or delegating the opportunities to members of your volunteer workforce.

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Grounds Week 2025

#GroundsWeek will take place from March 17 – March 23 and it’s shaping up to be the biggest celebration yet. Last year, this initiative reached an impressive 18 million people, highlighting the growing appreciation for the vital work done by grounds staff in sport.
Why #GroundsWeek Matters:
Recognition: It’s a week dedicated to recognising the vital role your grounds staff play in our sports and communities.
Inspiration: It inspires the next generation of professionals and volunteers to consider careers in grounds management.
Support: It’s an opportunity for us all to show support and celebrate their hard work.
We invite you to support #GroundsWeek by encouraging teams to participate. Use our easy-to-use #GroundsWeek Toolkit https://www.thegma.org.uk/helpful-links/groundsweek/, which includes resources like the official logo, social media templates, graphics and more. These tools make it simple to spread the word and celebrate the incredible work of your grounds teams.
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Honda Volunteer of the Year 2025

Honda Volunteer recognition and Oxfordshire RFU valuing volunteers in our clubs – there are a number of clubs yet to place any volunteers into the program you only have until Friday 14th Feb to vote, so I am sure you all have very valuable volunteers making the club what it is and this is a way to celebrate them with a dinner and game in May this year at our annual event.
Please get voting anyone can do it the link for people to nominate can be found on our website at: Honda VOTY Awards 2025 | Rugby Football Union
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The Women’s Sport Collective have launched a new Coaching Hub

The Women’s Sport Collective have launched a new Coaching Hub to provide cross-sport networking for female sports coaches working in elite sport.

Funded by [Sport England](https://www.linkedin.com/company/sport-england/) and led by [Women in Sport](https://www.linkedin.com/company/women-in-sport/), to aims to create a growing movement to drive systematic change for women in coaching.

Membership of the Coaching Hub is free and open to all women coaching at regional or national level with athletes in the talent or performance pathway, or who are coaching elite or professional athletes. They can apply here: [https://lnkd.in/edv6YF7T](https://lnkd.in/edv6YF7T)

Members will have access to online networking sessions with other coaches, a dedicated WhatsApp group, newsletters and personal development webinars within the Women’s Sport Collective’s new female leadership programme.

They will also have the chance to learn from six incredible Patrons of the Coaching Hub:

[Hope Powell](https://www.linkedin.com/in/hope-powell-847746119/) CBE (football) former Manager of the Lionesses and GB team
[Jess Thirlby](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jess-thirlby-5b96a82a7/) (netball) Head Coach of the England Roses
[Giselle Mather](https://www.linkedin.com/in/giselle-mather-730674a5/) (rugby) Head Coach of GB Women’s 7s
Judy Murray OBE (tennis) former Fed Cup Captain
[Melanie Marshall MBE](https://www.linkedin.com/in/melanie-marshall-mbe-a61812112/) (swimming) former coach to triple Olympic Champion Adam Peaty OBE
[Jenny Meadows OLY](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenny-meadows-oly-3876411bb/) (athletics) BBC Coach of the Year and coach to Olympic Champion Keely Hodgkinson MBE

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