Cambridgeshire RFU

Objective: CYR will promote the game of Rugby Football Union in Cambridgeshire through its RFU Quilter ‘Kids First’ Age Grade Rugby & Youth events and provide support, guidance and information to Member and Associate ‘Out of County’ clubs

CYR Committee: The following Heads of Sections will steer, guide, make provision for and review all activities. Reporting to the General Committee.

• Youth Chairman – Chris Mepham H. 01763 208620 0792 878 3081
• Youth Cups Coordinator – Vince Colby 07771 684580
• Age Grade Rugby 7 – 12 Festivals – Erkan Mustafa 07747633621
• Cambridgeshire Safeguarding Officer – Clairice Pepper 07739512574
• Northampton Saints Cambridgeshire DPP – Nicholas Carey 0780 184 7745
• CYR/CRFU U17 County Squad Manager - Carl Webster 07827995576
• Chairman Cambridgeshire Schools RFU – James Mepham 07814757847
• CYR Girls Rugby – Sam Sandercock 07875 294045
• CSRFU Girls Rugby – Charlotte Pindar 07846271128
• RFU Local Team CRC – Tim Reed 07872 827158

Mid- Season Meeting date: Monday 9th December 2019 7pm for 7.30pm at central venue tbd.

Partnerships & Networking: As a partner county of the Constituent Body of Eastern Counties Rugby Union (ECRU) CYR will contribute to, support and adhere to the ECRU Youth Structured Season Plan and regulations (NB this does not make provision for AGR 7-12 activities). All AGR activities will be governed by CRFU as regulated by the Laws and Bye-Laws of the RFU & Bye-Laws of the ECRU.

CYR will maintain close networking relations with officers of the Cambridgeshire University & District Rugby Referees Society, Saints DPP, CSRFU, and Cambridgeshire’s RUFC.

CYR will regularly be in communication with the above to seek views and opinion to guide an improved service to stakeholders. CYR will disseminate information received from the RFU, CPD & Refereeing courses.

The Youth Chairman, or deputising officer, will attend all ECRU Youth Rugby and CRFU meetings, reporting as required.

Cambridgeshire Clubs’ Youth & AGR Sections in Membership:

• Cambridge
• Ely
• Newmarket
• Saffron Walden
• Shelford
• Wendens Ambo
• Wisbech
• Cantabridgians
• March

Associate Members registering at £40 per season.

• Haverhill
• Huntingdon
• Peterborough
• Royston
• St Ives
• St Neots
• Peterborough Lions

CYR RUGBY EVENTS

The major Festivals & Tournaments will be hosted and organised by CYR & Associate Clubs who successfully bid for the privilege.

Club Registration Day – 01.09.19

EC Festivals/Saints DPP ID – Organiser Nick Carey, DPP Lead Coach Cambridgeshire; Convener - Chris Mepham CYR.

U16 – Sunday 22.09.19 Venue: Newmarket RUFC 13.00hrs
U15 – Sunday 22.09.19 Venue: Cambridge RUFC 13.00hrs
U14 – Sunday 29.09.19 Venue: Saffron Walden (tbc) 13.00hrs

ECRU/CYR U13 Age Grade Rugby (AGR) Festivals (Cambridgeshire Clubs only) EC Co-ordinator Ross Cowie M. 07786 332 930. CYR Convener – Chris Mepham CYR

County Waterfall Festival (CWF) No 1 – Sunday 17.11.19 13.00hrs venue: Shelford RFC

CWF No 2 with Saints DPP ID – Sunday 26.01.20 13.00hrs venue: Shelford RFC
(09.02.20 Reserve date for above)

EC Festival No 3 Finals. Venues located across the EC – Sunday 15.03.20

As last season we will invite coaches to choose the pools they wish to enter in Festival No 1 to ensure meaningful games for the young players as well as assuring every player in a squad/team has minimum 50% playing time in every game; this follows the ECRU/RFU U13 directive.

County 10’s U13 Festival – Sunday 22nd September 2019. Contact - Chris Mepham.

County U13, U14, U15, U16 7s Fest/Tournaments - Sunday 3rd May 2020 Chris Mepham

Hosting Clubs t.b.d – clubs may bid for the event. NB the U13 Festivals will follow ECRU approach viz. no limit on number of teams from any single club together with every squad/team player assured of 50% playing time in every game and following a waterfall format.

County AGR 7-12 Festivals – contact Erkan Mustafa

• Sunday 6th October 2019 Venues: t.b.d
• Sunday 8th March 2020 Venues t.b.d

Cambridgeshire U14, U15, U16 Youth Cups - play by or on dates – contact Vince Colby

• 1st Round – 03.11.19
• 2nd Round – 17.11.19
• 3rd Round – 15.12.19
• 4th Round – 12.01.20
• 5th Round – 26.01.20
• 6th Round – 06.03.20
• 7th Round – 15.03.20

Venues for CYR Finals determined by CYR Committee

NB. Entries to Cups only if a Club can commit to every date and fulfil its playing commitment. Failure to do so will eliminate that club’s age group eligibility to enter Cup Competitions the following season. We will make every effort to support our Associate Clubs who are involved in league programmes to fulfil their CYR Cup commitments but should a conflict of interest arise CYR will decide in favour of Cambridgeshire Clubs.

ECRU Colts Cups

• Round 1 – Sun. 26.01.20
• Round 2 – Sun. 02.02.20
• Round 3 – Sun. 01.03.20
• Round 4 – Sun. 08.03.20
• Round 5 – Sun. 15.03.20
• EC Cup Reserve – Sun. 22.03.20
• Semi-Finals – Sun. 29.03.20
• Cup Final – Sun. 03.05.20

Northampton Saints Cambridgeshire Developing Player Programme (DPP) – contact Nick Carey

U13 programme starts February 2020
U14 & U15 programmes start September 2019 continuing throughout season 2019/20
U16 programme starts September 2019 and runs until the end of December. (DPP player details will be forwarded to the manager of Cambridgeshire County U16 Squad for consideration for the CYR U17 emerging player ID programme. Contact – Carl Webster)

All dates declared pre-season.

ECRU ‘Emerging & Developing’ U16 Identification x3 Counties Tournament

Cambridgeshire County U16 Team at Thetford RFC – Wednesday 20th November 2019
Details and CYR Trials for the County U17 Development Squad to be announced.

CYR U17 County Programme. Lead Coach Rory Finlayson, Manager Carl Webster

Details of the x3 Counties Autumn Match Play programme to be announced

Wednesday 13th November 2019 Evening Tournament/Trials – Norfolk v Suffolk v Cambridgeshire Tournament at Thetford RUFC

CYR Girls Rugby. Contact - Sam Sandercock

CYR will launch a Girls County Development/Playing Programme from September 2019.
Details to be announced pre-season 2019/20

Cambridgeshire Schools Girls Rugby. Contact Charlotte Pindar on CPindar@soham-college.org.uk

Cambridgeshire Schools RFU (CSRFU) and CYR will jointly support and promote district festivals/tournaments to provide inter-school rugby playing experiences for schoolgirls.

Fenland Schools U13 & U15 Festival at Ely RUFC March 2020

Safeguarding. Contact – Clairice Pepper.

CYR fully upholds all RFU directives, requirements and good practice in this domain.

NB - ECRU ‘Structured Season’ Plan 2018 - 19 to be read with this document.

Colour coding explained:
Blue weeks – School Unions may organise competitions
Orange weeks – Constituent Bodies (Eastern Counties RU is our CB) can organise festivals, tournaments, cup matches, etc.
White weeks – No competitions.
School competitions in blue weeks are mid-week.
The Calendar is not a priority calendar.
All colours do not prevent clubs or schools making fixtures in other weeks.

Chris Mepham CYR Chairman. March 2019
H. 01763 208620 M. 0792 878 3081