vRugby Staffordshire Young Leaders Day

 

The vRugby Staffordshire Young Leaders' Day is a Leadership day that hosts 24 of the best 15-18 year old young leaders within Staffordshire.

Young leaders from across the country will gather at Burntwood RFC for an action-packed day on 24th February 2011.

The day focuses on the development of leadership skills through Rugby Union, offering a good blend of practical and theory-based sessions. There will be two key areas of leadership focused on during the day; coaching and club development.  Each area will be facilitated by tutors who specialise within their section of sports development.

After the Young Leaders' Day, the Young Leaders will go on to join their local vRugby team as Club Activators and lead vRugby projects at their local clubs.

The Staffordshire Young Leaders' Day has also set aims to achieve throughout the day. These are:

• To inspire young leaders to go into the county and organise projects as part of the vRugby programme.
• To give young volunteers the opportunity to develop teamwork and leadership skills.
• To achieve the RFU Tag Rugby award  

 

Invitation
 

vRugby

 

v is a volunteer organisation; its mission is to make volunteering opportunities so diverse, compelling and easy to get involved with that giving up your time to help others becomes a natural lifestyle choice for 16-25 year olds in England.

Since its launch in May 2006, v has worked with over 500 charities and community organisations to create over 925,000 youth volunteering opportunities. Of these, 467,000 are short term or taster opportunities, 421,000 are part time, and 20,000 are full time.

vRugby is a programme where volunteers aged 16-25 plan and run rugby related projects in clubs, schools, colleges and universities across the country.

The strands to the programme include vRugby Fun (running a project to get more people playing rugby), vRugby Life (spreading the rugby ethos), vRugby Cash (raising funds for the club) and vRugby Force (improvements to the club).

For further information about vRugby or the vRugby Staffordshire Young Leaders' Day please feel free to contact Tom Bartram or Alex Thompson on the below contact information. 

                                                       
Tom Bartram
Rugby Development Officer – Staffordshire 
T: 07841 156 806                  
E: tombartram@rfu.com                                 

 

Alex Thompson
Volunteer Executive - Midlands
T: 07894 489756
E: alexthompson@rfu.com