Wales Rugby League have congratulated their board member John Richard Heaton “Dick” Greenwood after being awarded an OBE on the Queen’s Birthday Honours list. The 75-year old was given this award for his services to National and International Rugby which includes the work he currently does with Wales Rugby League. A volunteer with Wales Rugby …
Wales Rugby League’s senior team’s preparation for the 2017 Rugby League World Cup in Australia has been given a significant boost by Sport Wales who have allocated funding support from their performance budgets to the National Governing Body for the first time in their history. Prior to this year, Sport Wales have only allocated funding …
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The All-Party Parliamentary Rugby League Group welcomed Wales Rugby League to Parliament yesterday evening (28 February). Peers and MPs were joined by associate members in the Palace of Westminster, as Wales Rugby League discussed participation, development and the growth of the game in Wales. There was a focus on the heritage and history of the …
Wales Rugby League bosses have praised the legacy left by the former junior development managers Allen Jones and Jon Ellis who collectively engaged over 40,000 new people to play Rugby League in Wales during their time in office. Schools, clubs and junior representative rugby have all developed under their stewardship and both were instrumental in …
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Wales Rugby League have achieved two major awards as they continue to build and improve the organisation. The national governing body has been awarded the Level 3 Safeguarding Standard, as well as being awarded the highest grading in the Sport Wales Self Assurance process for the fourth year in a row. The Safeguarding Standard was …
Wales Rugby League have unfortunately had to make two of their staff redundant due to loss of funding. Jon Ellis, the Coaching and Performance Development Manager, having been employed the last six years with WRL, will finish 27th December 2016. Allen Jones, North Wales Development Officer, employed for the last eight months with WRL will …
David Hanson, the Labour Party MP for Delyn in North Wales, has called on the UK Government to officially congratulate Wales for reaching the finals of the 2017 Rugby League World Cup. The exact wording of the motion is “That this House congratulates the Wales Rugby League team, along with England, Scotland and Ireland, on …
Wales Rugby League’s head coach John Kear has received one of the biggest awards in domestic Rugby League, that of “Championship Coach of the Year” for his work at Batley Bulldogs this year. Kear’s side topped the Kingstone Press Championship table in the initial stages of the season and they eventually made the middle eights …
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Former Salford and Wales forward Paul Highton knows first hand just how difficult it is for players at the end of their career dealing with change. Highton, 39, also played for Halifax, Featherstone and Oldham during a 16-year career that started back in 1994. He won nine caps for Wales between 1999 and 2002. He …
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Wales Rugby League, for the third consecutive year, has achieved the top green self-assurance grading by Sport Wales due to the standard of their governance as a National Governing Body. Self-assurance is a management tool used by Sports Councils in the UK to help assess National Governing Bodies’ progress made on governance and the risk …
