Your Club Can Become Part of the President's XV
The 2011/12 President’s XV Awards, supported by QBE, are now open!
Introduced during the 2006/07 season by then-President Bob Rogers, the President's XV Award scheme seeks to identify and reward best practice in community rugby clubs. To date, over 190 projects have received recognition for making an outstanding contribution to the development of grassroots rugby.
This season’s Awards, launched on 2 November by RFU President Willie Wildash, saw the introduction of some new look categories, hand-picked by the new President to reflect a focus on growing the game; the Awards headlined with the ‘Choose Rugby-Player Recruitment Campaign” category, and introduced a new “Playing Opportunities” category.
As a team game, recognition in rugby should not just focus on individuals but highlight the efforts that clubs go to make our sport the great game that it is. The President's XV scheme offers 15 categories, selected by the RFU President, that clubs and other rugby organisations can nominate themselves for.
All rugby clubs in England are eligible for nomination, as long as their projects have been run in a voluntary capacity within the last 12 months. The winner in each of the 15 award categories receives £500 for their club, with two highly-commended projects in each category receiving £100. This prize money must be reinvested to support community rugby.
The winners, judged by a panel lead by the RFU President, are announced in March, with case studies of all the winning and highly-commended projects in each category published on our website and distributed to the game at the start of the new season.
Rugby World, the world’s best selling rugby magazine, are the official media partner of the President’s XV scheme and highlight the best of the nominations within their pages.
Closing date for all nominations is 1st February 2012. If you have any questions about the President’s XV Awards scheme, contact your local RDO or
recognition@therfu.com .