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England Touch offers the chance to design 2014 kit.Here at England Touch HQ, we feel that the successful promotion of the game in the international arena is partially dependent on the physical appearance and presentation of participating players. As such, England Touch are running a competition to allow you to design our brand new official away kit.England Touch national teams ...

The Key Stage 3 girls in a Nottingham City School are being introduced to touch as a new sport on their PE programme of activity.Julia Kang, PE teacher at Djanogly City Academy Nottingham, wanted to share her love of the sport with them and try something less traditional.The activity is proving very poplar and the girls are finding a new competitiveness that they didn’t know th ...

With great weather, excellent training facilities and a packed training schedule what better way to get ‘Team England’s’ 2014 Euro’s campaign started.The competitive nature of the players and teams came to the fore during the squad games, even after numerous fitness tests and various skill sessions, the desire to win was evident.The dreaded beeps of the Yoyo test didn’t disappo ...

At 11.00am on Sunday 3rd November, we held the 2013 England Touch AGM at Gosford All Blacks RFC in Oxfordshire.All members of the ETA were invited to attend and participate in the meeting as well as one representative or committee member from all league operators, clubs or venues that contribute financially to the ETA.Over the course of the day, lots was discussed and lots was ...

The annual Women's tournament in Valencia was held on November 9th this year with 6 teams battling it out for the top spot in what looked to be fantastic sunshine!She Who Dares Try's captained by Jo Howson, combined players from Cambridge, Ipswich, and Bedford (and a last minute French signing was also made on the day!) to finish an impressive 3rd in a competition that included ...

Here at England Touch, we aim to grow Touch throughout the country, encourage more people to get involved with the sport so that they can have fun and improve their performance on the pitch. More players, more skills, more fun! To help shape our plans, we ran a short survey to hear your views about developing our sport - with the added bonus of a chance to win a coaching sessio ...

After the recent England Touch AGM, the committee and operational board members for the 2013/14 season are as follows. We would like to thank those who've left us for their hard work and welcome all the new volunteers to their role.These are exciting times for Touch in England and with a committed and driven team at the helm, we're looking forward to taking the next steps in de ...

Following a nomination process and announced at the ETA AGM at the beginning of November the dates and venues for the combined National and Challenge Touch Series have been set. As previously communicated the newly combined competition will have the following benefits; Free up 4 weekends in the already busy Touch calendar Bring together the 2 events, allowing economies o ...

Wild and windy, with flying gazebos, flying touches and flying scores, the Bonfire tournament on Saturday, once again, ended the touch year with a bang for us at Oxford. Despite the storm of the century (?!) last week, we are grateful that 11 visiting teams weren't put off. It was great to see so many old friends and the tournament newcomers, travelling from all over the UK, Sc ...

Play started at 9:50 at the National Touch Series (NTS) and Challenge Touch Series (CTS) Finals 2013, but the Elite 8 kicked proceedings off at 10:25 on Pitch 1. The Elite 8 are made up of the top half of the NTS league, the Super 8 holding the rest of the teams.The tournament has four pools that play over four pitches, but we would be focusing on pitches 1 and 2 that were hold ...