Rugby Club ISSUE 78 | Page 38

Bowdon FOLLOW US ONLINE TWITTER.COM/RUGBYCLUBMAG Bowdon RUGBY UNION FOOTBALL CLUB Bowdon RUFC is a fantastic example of the important role that a club can play in their local community. Rugby Club Magazine recently caught up with their Chairman Mark Jordan to find out more about the good work that has been going on at the club lately. He told us, “I’ve been here for around 25 years and have been chairman for the last three years. Seeing the club grow has been terrific. If you go back to 1993 we had a very old clubhouse – it was a great place for a bunch of blokes to socialise but as time has moved on we now have a terrific family set up for the whole community. That has allowed us to go from a group of around 80 people being involved to well over a thousand now.” 38 Issue 78 “The atmosphere is great at the moment. The function room has helped us to generate a lot of income and there are people down at the club every day of the week. There’s a real vibrancy around the club with a lot of people enjoying being involved here. “Our mini/junior section now has 450 kids taking part. The last couple of years we’ve seen senior colts coming through which is really positive. We did have some difficulties with players transitioning into the senior game due to other commitments but like I say we’ve seen players coming through recently. Maybe five years from now we hope to have around half our players having come through the youth section here. “Overall, I’d say we’re happy with how the season has gone. We’ve had some disappointing results but also some very good ones. Our ambition