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The England Touch Association (ETA), the national governing body for the sport of Touch in England, is seeking a new Chair and other Non-Executive Directors (NEDs) to join the Board. The ETA is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Non-Executive Chair to lead a dynamic and multi-disciplinary Board, and two other NEDs to support the executive in implementing the sports 2020’s ...

England’s national teams are taking on the best of Europe this summer, and you can help contribute to any success we have by helping our campaigns run as smoothly as possible. We are seeking Team Managers for the European Touch Championships in Nottingham between August 2nd and 6th, and the Junior Touch Championships in Vichy, France, between August 12th and 14th. England’s suc ...

The Federation of International Touch has unveiled the provisional draw for the 2022 European Touch Championships. In all some 60 teams from 17 European nations will be heading to Nottingham in the first week of August for five days of action, with 382 matches across the 10 standalone divisions, all increases compared to the previous edition of the tournament in 2018. The bigge ...

As part of Pride month, the upcoming mixed National Touch Series tournaments will mark a first ever England Touch Pride Weekend in celebration of the LGBTQ+ community. Across the weekend, both the Elite National Touch Series on Saturday June 18th and the Development National Touch Series on Sunday June 19th will be themed to encourage everyone to enjoy the occasion. There will ...

UK Coaching – the UK’s leading charitable organisation for physical activity and sports coaches – is leading a nationwide recruitment drive to expand the coaching workforce. The initiative will see the organisation engage with several of the nation’s leading sports over the next 10 years to create and advance more coaches and ensure the nation has more opportunities to be acti ...

The destinies of the overall champions in both the Elite and Development Men’s and Women’s National Touch Series went down to the final matches on both Saturday and Sunday during Round 3 in Oxford. After Round 2 both the Elite Men’s and Development Women’s leagues were tied between NQ Rebels and London Scorpions, and Revolution and Oxford respectively. This created opportunitie ...

The destination of the 2022 overall titles is still in the balance in the Elite Men’s and Women’s National Touch Series. The teams return to Oxford this Saturday, with NQ Rebels and London Scorpions tied on 46 league points each, with Wigan Warriors just six points behind. Rebels and Scorpions have been going toe-to-toe this season, with Scorpions beating the Rebels in the Roun ...

The Women’s title battle will be going down to the wire in Sunday’s final round of the Development Men’s and Women’s National Touch Series in Oxford. The home-town team are tied with Revolution on 40 points at the top of the table, but with Wigan just four points behind and with the confidence of winning the Round 2 Cup under their belt, expect plenty of results to be in the ba ...

For the first time England Touch is launching a range of supporter leisure wear with our new official apparel partners, EV2 Sportswear. The initial range includes a polo shirt, t-shirt, 1/4 zip midlayer, hoodie, rain jacket, track pants, shorts and a range of headwear and accessories, all designed with the needs of our supporters in mind, whether you are a family member of an E ...

England Touch is seeking a new General Manager to help the Association achieve the ambitions which will be set out in the forthcoming 2020s Vision. The General Manager will be the third member of paid workforce, with the ETA recognising that in order to be able to successfully and safely perform the duties of a national governing body, the Association needs to develop with it. ...