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Club AGM
Club AGM: 21st May - everybody welcome for our club AGM 7.30pm for 8pm start. Come along to hear the club facts and figures from the past season. Please follow the links below to find a copy of the 2012 AGM minutes, along with the 2013 AGM Agenda and the list of nominations of officers and accounts.
AGM 2012 minutes

AGM 2013 agenda
AGM 2013 committee nominations

Kit Bag Sponsor
WIthy U10s would like to thank Belvedere Products of Newton Abbott for their kind sponsorship of smart new kit bags for next season.

Junior Awards
Withy U10s season 12/13 summary: Played 30, Won 18, Drew 3, Lost 9
Annual awards night held on Friday 17th May 2013 presented by U10s Coach Mark Wilkinson:


Players Player - Max Rickards


Most Improved Player - Will Jones


Coaches Players - Will Cooper and Matt Rye


Special Contribution Award - Tom Humphry


Rob Rickards Most Supportive Team Player Award - Jayden Gore (with Max Rickards)

 

Junior AGM
Rescheduled to 7pm Tuesday 18th June.
Junior AGM 2012 minutes

Junior AGM 2013 agenda
Junior AGM 2013 committee nominations & Junior AGM 2013 form for committee nominations

Car parking
Recently, some cars have been blocked in at the car park and this has caused some upset. Starting shortly, a new system will be trialled whereby cards can be placed in the car with a name and mobile number so that those who are blocked can contact the person and arrange a move.

Volunteers Needed!!!
The club are always looking for additional help in almost every area such as sponsorship, social, bar etc. If you can help in any way at all, or have a skill that you think could be used to benefit the club, please let Merv or anyone on the committee know. We want to build on the success of the open evening where plenty of good suggestions were made.

Car Boot Sales
Our popular Car Boot Sales will be returning for the summer soon. More details to follow.

Under 9s
The Under 9s Team and coaches who are enjoying a very successful first season of contact rugby.

Grounds Improvement - February 2013
On Saturday 9th February Raleigh Park saw the first steps towards enhancing the car park areas. The following took place:

Front car park - widening/forming easier access to the car park, removal of the wire mesh fence in preparation for a new timber fence. The car park area was cleared of grass & weeds in preparation towards planting borders and new surfacing lining and designated disabled parking bays later this year.

Rear car park area - The metal waste items were disposed of and the grass and weeds were cleared to start the formation of bunds. The proposed works due later during this year will involve improved footpaths/new gates/segregated vehicle and pedestrian access/grounds maintenance area/dedicated ambulance access.



Our thanks go to the following people for their help: Russ Chilton, Carl Cartwright & Mini Digger, Sam Marles & JCB, Dave Josey, Ian Skinner and Simon Lawrence. (Thanks also to Keren, John and Aaron Annandale for supplying food and drinks to the workforce!)

A special thanks goes to the following companies for assisting with supplying plant & waste skips FOC to make the works much easier!

Advanced Waste Services for supplying the waste skip: (01202) 870833 - Krysia Linter
Speedy Hire for supplying the compactor plate: (01392) 277333 - Julian Blake

And finally a very special thanks must go to our to sponsor Sam Marles Plant Hire: (07970)549364 - Sam Marles. Sam and his JCB made much of the work effortless with his new JCB 4CX ECO!.

The works have made a start to the improvement plan but please bear with us if it looks like a building site at times. We hope you will see a noticeable improvement over the future months and we will endeavour to complete the works as quickly as possible!

The next working party will be in March and we would appreciate anyone with spare/free hard-core and timber road sleepers/posts for the next area of works. Please contact Simon Lawrence on 07973 243513 or via email:
slawrence@midasgroup.co.uk if you have any of the materials.

Super Saturday at Exeter Chiefs
There was a good turn out by Withy Juniors at a recent Exeter Chiefs Super Saturday v Northampton in the LV Cup.

Special Visitor on Friday 18th January
On Friday afternoon the Under 7s were honoured to welcome the Heineken Cup to Raleigh Park. It was polished and took pride of place in the club in readiness for members to have their photos taken with it during the evening.
 
Withycombe Rugby Club were extremely proud to have the Heineken Cup this Friday and special thanks go to Mark Long who liaised and organised the Cup to visit us Withys!

U8s Sponsorship
Withycombe rugby club under 8s were delighted to meet their new sponsor for the remainder for this and next year. Sam Marles Plant Hire are a family firm providing plant hire for all your needs on an hourly basis. Coach Ben Mardle said, "It is due to the support of local companies such as Sam's that the club can continue to offer the best junior rugby available. We cannot thank Marles Plant Hire enough. The under 8s have had a fine start to the season and now look to build on this in the new year". To find out more about Sam Marles Plant Hire call 07970 549364

Newsletter
Read the
November 2012 Newsletter

U11s Sponsorship
Withycombe U11s would like to thank Colin Mayor, chairman of Skinner Construction Ltd for his very kind sponsorship.

A statement from Colin: 'Colin Mayor, Chairman of Skinner Construction Ltd has expressed his delight with the opportunity to provide sponsorship (in a small way) for the Withycombe RFC under 11s.

We feel these young players work extremely hard and are very proud to represent the club. A huge amount of credit must go to the coaches and parents who travel all over Devon throughout the winter months'.

 

Newsletters
Read the
April 2012 Newsletter

We are looking for a new coach for our backs
Withycombe RFC needs a backs player/coach for the 2012-2013 season. Expenses to be paid for the right candidate. If interested contact Director of Rugby Nigel Symons 07791774982

Juniors - Mini & Midi Festival 2012
On 31st March - 1st April Exmouth RFC hosted a massive Mini & Midi festival.  This festival of Junior rugby features dozens of teams and hundreds of youngsters. Click here for details of the Withycombe Juniors matches.

Newsletters
Read the
November 2011 Newsletter

Super Saturday at Exeter Chiefs
Withy Juniors attended the Exeter Chiefs Super Saturday on 19th November which was held prior to their European clash against Cavalieri Prato
.

Exeter Chiefs skipper, Tom Hayes presented trainer of the day - Max Rickards (U9s) with a signed ball. Well done Max!

See more photos of the day on the Exeter Rugby Club website

Under 11s needed
New players urgently required to join the new Withycombe U11s Squad, School Year Group 6, age 10 on 1st September 2011. Please contact coaches Richard Blyth or Guy Bolwell (see Contacts page).
 

Senior Awards Evening
Saturday 14th May saw a well attended Senior Awards Evening at WRFC, Raleigh Park.

Presentations were made by Exeter Chiefs, Chief Executive Tony Rowe who is also Withycombe RFC's Club President.

Player's Player - Danny Parry
Best Newcomer - Paul Talbot (pictured)
Coach's Award - Paul Talbot
Most Improved Player - Chris Gibbons
Top Try Scorer - Ben Turner
Dave Betts Trophy - Dave Thompson
Clubman of the Year - Neil McGuinness

Young George Toomey was presented with a new award in recognition for all his assistance throughout the season at matches as he travels to all away games with the 1st XV helping out, running the water on etc.

Players who reached 50 first team caps throughout the season were also presented with WRFC 1st XV Team Ties. They were Dave Richards, Sam Manning and Ben Wright.

Photos from the evening can bee seen in our Seniors Awards 2011 Gallery.

Junior Awards Afternoon
Withycombe Juniors 2010-2011 Season, taken at awards afternoon 8th May 2011. For more photos of the Juniors this season please visit our
Gallery.
Photo: Exmouth Journal

Senior Fitness Training
Fitness training will continue at WRFC throughout the summer months; it will take the form of general fitness training, ball handling and tag rugby in an informal and fun environment from 6.45 to 8pm on a Wednesday evening at the club. Come along and keep your fitness level up throughout the summer! For details contact Nigel Symons on 07791 774982.

Newsletters
April 2011 Newsletter

RFU visit to Withycombe
Raleigh Park welcomed representatives from the RFU with their film cameras on Sunday 20th March 2011.
Andy Melrose and Steve Harland, RFU Referee Training and Development Officers came to Withycombe on Sunday to film the clubs Mini/Midi referees in action. This was a follow-up to a course held at the club in July 2010 in which 9 members qualified as referees for junior rugby. The new RFU course originally used Withycombe as "guinea pigs" to trial the course content last summer. Contemporary video footage of the referees in action was required to complement the new course hence the return visit. So, in the future as the RFU go around the country running the course, the players and referees of the Junior Section at Withycombe RFC will feature in the presentation. A welcomed opportunity to help the RFU and a great national profile raiser for us.

Tag Rugby
Mark Wilkinson has organised Tag Rugby for aged 16+ male & females on Tuesday evenings at 7pm.  This is just for fun and no experience is necessary – all enquiries to Mark on 07800643871

U12/U13s Players Urgently Needed
Playing Opportunity for Remainder of this Season at U13s Level...... just a few more players needed!

 

 

 

 

 

We are actively looking to recruit more U13s players for the remainder of this season. Coach Kevin Howe has been working well with an enthusiastic squad of youngsters and is very close to putting a full team together with fixtures in place for the second half of this season. In addition the club is very keen to welcome more U12's players to form a team. Training every Sunday from 10 o'clock at Raleigh Park, all welcome. Kevin Howe can be contacted on 07891245666 or via email: kevin.howe@withycomberugby.co.uk

Super Saturday
Withy youngsters enjoy Super Saturday at a recent Exeter Chiefs v Leeds match on 20th November 2010.

Under 15s News
The Under 15s squad along with coach Chris Ellor are pictured with Ian Skinner of IC SKINNER TILING. Ian was presenting the team with new sponsored shirts and club ties which he has generously donated to the squad. The shirts were presented after the 5-0 home win over Torrington on Sunday 31st October.

Withycombe Sportsmans Dinner Success
Dave Trick who played for Bath and England was the guest speaker at Withycombe Sportman’s Dinner last Friday.

Speaking to 120 guests, Dave entertained his audience with anecdotes about his career, including being the only international to have drunk a can of lager and smoked a cigarette during an International match against Australia. Something to do with the thick fog at the time.

A three course dinner was served by the excellent Eat with England’s and comedian/ compare Tank Sherman provided the entertainment and conducted a Sports auction.

Withycombe RFC would like to thank John Passmore for organising the evening.

Withycombe RFC Juniors big thank you to Exmouth Lions Club.
On Sunday 19th September Exmouth Lions Club made a very welcome visit to Raleigh Park during Junior training to make a kind donation of 20 new size 3 Kooga rugby balls to the clubs ever expanding youth section (along with some complementary "team building" paint ball tickets.... for the adults !)

Next week sees a return to action for the youngest Withies (U7, U8 & U9s) in their first competitive fixture of the season away to Honiton.



Pictured are U9s Coach Richard Blyth along with a selection of Withy Juniors from the U7s, U8s and U9 teams receiving new training balls from Eve Oakman, President of Exmouth Lions Club.

New Gallery
The Gallery is now live and it has lots of fantastic pictures of the U7s and U8s.  More photos will be added soon so do have a look at the Gallery Page.

Withycombe RFC Kit Shop!
The club has a new Kit Shop. A selection of WRFC Logo kit is now available. Please visit the Kit Shop to see what's on offer.

Volunteers Needed!!!
Please help!  To run successful events, we need people to attend and to help out. The more people that volunteer, the less the workload.

We currently require:
+ One or more people to organise the kitchen rota on match days.
+ Volunteers to serve food on match days.
+ People to collect money, direct cars, serve food etc at the car boot sales.
+ Groups of 4 people to assist in the running of the bingo i.e. caller, cashier and refreshments.

If you are able to assist at the club in any of the roles mentioned above, please do get in touch with Becky Skinner on
01395 263423 or email her at becky.skinner@withycomberugby.co.uk.

Sponsorship
As you’re probably aware, thanks to the dedication of the coaches and support of the club, Withycombe RFC has been extremely successful in recent years in recruiting boys and girls to the club and now boasts a thriving youth section with a number of youth teams in various age groups. To continue the good work and provide the children with the facilities, kit and training equipment they deserve requires ongoing funding. Whilst membership subscriptions go some way towards this, we are always looking for new opportunities to raise money.
Hopefully this is where you can help. Please read here for further information.

New! Tag Rugby for Girls
Tag is a fun and exciting non contact form of rugby.  Girls aged 9 and above are invited to come along and enjoy the game! For more details contact either Alan Humphry (07977 567188) or Iain Cooper (07766 443412).

Withycombe RFC -  Juniors Committee
A fledgling Junior Section has existed at the Club since 2006 when an U11s team was formed. Next season we will be running teams at the following levels: U15s, U9s, U8s, U7s.  We also hope to run teams at U10s and U12s levels subject to finding suitable coaches.

WRFC’s long term aim is to develop a Junior/Youth Section fulfilling age groups from U7s all the way up to U16s, followed by a colts team(s) thereafter.  To effectively manage the development of this Junior/Youth Section it is timely that we, the Club and all interested parents/guardians/coaches formally organise ourselves to provide the necessary level of support to the various age groups.

Whether you have previous connections with WRFC or are a relative newcomer we have a fantastic opportunity to build something here and continue the good work already being done at the Club.  The long term development of a Junior/Youth Section at Withycombe Rugby Football Club can only help further promote the Club in the local community. We want to offer children of all ages the chance to come and enjoy the sport of rugby and all that it has to offer within a friendly, family rugby club.

Diary

Tuesday 21st May  7.30pm for 8pm start: Club AGM

Sat 15 / Sun 16 June: RBS RUGBY FORCE

Tuesday 18th June  7pm: Junior AGM

Sundays 7pm: Cash Bingo

Mondays: Senior Training at Raleigh Park