Witham
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Witham
RUGBY UNION FOOTBALL CLUB
W
itham RUFC is a club that is making tremendous progress, playing a vital
role in their community and always looking to improve. We recently caught
up with their Chairman Dean Wells to find out more about the club.
He told us, “I first became involved
in the club in the early to mid-1980s as
a junior player as my sports teachers at
school were the coaches at the club and
strongly suggested I joined. I re-joined
in 2005 as a parent of an eight year old
that wanted to try playing and we are
both still there now with him wearing
the number 10 shirt and me having been
coach, lead coach, junior vice chair, chair
and now club chair and loving it.
“Being chairman of WRUFC has
many rewards for me as I’m enjoying see
the club move forward after just ticking
over for a number of years and I have the
support of a fantastic committee. It’s also
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quite a challenge at times to
keep on top of so many things
that need doing as well as
working full time, being a
husband and a dad.
“The club itself is
on a roll and starting
to go forward with
the
support
from
our
sponsors.
The
development in the last
three years has been
incredible and has been
mirrored on the pitch;
two seasons ago we were
struggling to get one senior