Staines
Integration
Community
“We try to ensure young players
enjoy a smooth transition
into the senior game by
making sure training
nights during the
week
for
the
senior
youth
team are the
same as the
Seniors and
managing the
time
slots.
This
will
allow for the
Senior players
to get involved
in assisting the
youth with core
skills and game
understanding.
Many of the senior
players are involved in
mentoring those youth players.
There are very experienced and helpful
parents who have been with the senior
youth team for a number of years and
it is important to keep this aspect of
connection in the youths development.
As part of the development process many
of these upper youth players are involved
with U17s/U18s County Rugby.”
“I believe Staines is at the heart
of the local community. In
addition to providing
many
community
groups
with
excellent internal
facilities
we
are accredited
to
holding
RFU
coach
education
sessions.
T h e s e
facilities are
also used by
local
groups
which are very
well attended.
Our
external
facilities are used
by local schools and
universities,
the
armed
forces, Middlesex County RFU
England Women and England 7s as well
as overseas national teams. Many local
companies use our facilities for summer
activities.”
Challenges
includes 5 pitches, a club house, bungalow
and a large car park. To maintain such a
large amount of property we are reliant
on income streams.
We need to juggle these income
streams to allow coach and player
development at all levels and continue
our links with the All Schools project.
To allow the community partnerships to
develop and to keep the interest of young
players interested it will be helpful if we
could somehow have in place a modern all
weather surface pitch. There is no doubt
that our winters are becoming milder and
wetter and we need to develop with our
environment.”
Ambitions
“Over the next 5 years we must
continue with club growth in all areas
by developing more players, more
coaches, better facilities and work in close
partnership with our Rugby Development
Officer and keep supporting all the new
RFU initiatives.
In order to achieve these ambitions
we need to work on getting more income
streams into the club through sponsorship.
Maintaining our community links is also
very important in our club development.”
“We are in a unique situation where
we own all 15 acres of facilities, which
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