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The nominations have been announced for the 2018 England Touch Volunteer Workplace Awards. This is the first year that England Touch has presented these awards, which have been introduced to recognise the dedication and commitment of the volunteers who have helped to drive the recent growth and success of the sport in England. The winners will be announced this weekend as part ...

The Steeden Development National Touch Series was rounded off in Manchester this past weekend. Long gone was the heat and sun which had been the hallmark of the Series throughout the summer, but the dedication and competitiveness of the 15 teams who headed to Trafford MV RUFC was as intense as ever. Yorkshire Thorns' back-to-back Cup titles in Lincoln and Oxford had put them fi ...

England Touch has announced the Male and Female High Performance Training Squads for initial World Cup training until the end of 2018. Forty-two men and 38 women have been named in the squads along with a further eight train-on athletes. They will have three training camps in September, October and November, with a final selection camp in early January, after which the Men’s Op ...

England Touch has confirmed that it will be sending teams to compete in 10 categories at the 2019 Touch World Cup in Malaysia, the most ever in the nation’s history. England will be represented in the Men’s Open, Women’s Open, Mixed Open, Women’s 27s, Men’s 30s, Mixed 30s, Women’s 35s, Men’s 35s, Men’s 40s and Men’s 45s in Kuala Lumpur next April. This is up from seven in 2015, ...

Ben Powell has been appointed High Performance Lead Coach for the forthcoming World Cup training cycle. Powell has a wealth of experience within Touch, both as a player who represented England at multiple European Touch Championships and the 2015 World Cup, as a Technical Director who played an important role in the growth of coaching courses and the Touch Nationals, and as a c ...

There was a bluewash of titles at the One Leisure Outdoor Centre in St Ives over the August bank holiday as all four categories were taken home by teams wearing blue vests. South-East Sharks had an outstanding weekend, winning three of the titles on offer, while the South-West Saxons landed the fourth. The Sharks set their stall out in the Men’s Open and Women’s Open categories ...

The Mixed Open division has gone from strength to strength since its inception and we can once again look forward to a competitive and unpredictable division. The early favourites for the title will be last year’s finalists - North-West Blades and the Midlands Tigers, with both teams facing each other in the first round of the competition.  However, there is great depth once a ...

The Men’s 30s Division will be once again full of quality and unpredictability. The South-East teams are the early front-runners given their recent dominance in the division, but the Southern Suns, West Wildcats and the Midlands Tigers will be hot on their heels in what will be a competitive and gruelling three days of competition.  The Midlands Tigers have a number new faces i ...

The Men’s Open division was full of surprise and unpredictability in 2017, with the pool rounds seeing last placed Midlands Tigers defeating top placed South West Saxons. 2018 is expected to be highly competitive once again, with defending champions, the North West Blades the early front runners to take the title back up the M6 with them. The North-West Blades is full of club p ...

The Women’s Open division in 2017 was largely viewed as the most competitive and the highest quality since the tournament's inception. The first shock of the tournament was the South-East Taipans suffering defeat in the semi-final, meaning they were unable to continue their quadruple defence of their Touch Nationals title. The Midlands Tigers ambushed the defending champions to ...