White Rose Rugby’s aim is to create the opportunity for all to experience the many benefits of the sport. Benefits both on and off the field. We have a vast experience delivering sports sessions to a large range of participants in various focus communities.
Since White Rose Rugby started delivering sessions within the community we have had the pleasure of working all over the county. Creating the opportunity for thousands of participants of different genders, ethnicity, ages and sporting ability to take part within rugby and other sports.
We have created this map to show you the majority of the locations of schools, colleges and other educational settings in which we have delivered rugby and mixed sport sessions. We hope that this continues to grow throughout the future, so that we can continue to create the opportunity for more participants become active and get involved.
We have created the pages below to show you some of the case studies from our various sessions. Each of the case studies provide information about the delivery and some of the positive outcomes from each session. All of our case studies studies follow our 3 i’s (intent, implementation and impact), a format which is explained below.
Change Through Rugby
White Rose Rugby have been funded by Yorkshire Sport Foundation and North Yorkshire Sport foundation to deliver Change Through Rugby sessions. Our Change Through Rugby sessions are delivered to target groups such as Girl’s, Minority groups or SEN and mixed ability sessions. We deliver the sessions within many focus communities and areas across the county.
SEN and Mixed ability
At White Rose Rugby all of our coaches specialise in SEN and Mixed ability sessions. We have created session plans tailored to all needs and have massive success within all of our SEN and mixed ability sessions.
We work closely with IMAS and various SEN centre’s across West Yorkshire. We also have some of the team members from The Bumbles mixed ability rugby team within our coaching team who aid with all of our mixed ability and SEN sessions. A large amount of our SEN and Mixed ability sessions are a part of the Change through Rugby project, but we also deliver work on behalf of IMAS and links we have created within schools and centres.
PRU and Behavioural sessions
Over the past two years we have began to deliver more and more sessions too Pupil Referral units/schools as well as behavioural groups within schools. We firmly believe the use of core values and creating an opportunity for sport with these groups often leads to success.
This success can vary from a student getting involved, making new friends, improving behaviour or transitioning to grass root rugby. This type of work fit into our Change Through Rugby project.
Primary School Delivery
At White Rose Rugby we create the opportunity for primary schools to take part in rugby. This is either by sessions directly with schools or working with local rugby clubs to deliver sessions within various primary schools within their area, to help promote the rugby club.
We also run mega-festivals with the RFU community team and summer holiday camps to help the younger ages keep involved in rugby.
HMYOI Wetherby Prison
For the past two years we have had coaches delivering sessions to those within the young offenders institute. These sessions are provided as a treat and to also show how the core values of our sport can help in day to day life. We focus the sessions largely on enjoyment but also create the opportunity for the participants to take part in cpd’s on various aspects of our sport. Helping to create a learning environment too.
Developing young people through an apprenticeship scheme
White Rose Rugby were one of the first organisations to confirm their involvement in the Coach Core Leeds apprenticeship programme having previously worked with Yorkshire Sport Foundation on other project. They have completely immersed themselves in developing young people through the apprenticeship scheme and have been nothing but open minded and willing to learn during every part of the process.
It is vital that the apprentices that are part of this project have the required support from the organisation that they are placed with. Phil, Dave and the rest of the team fully understand what it takes to nurture and mentor young people and go the extra mile. They provide the right environment for young people to learn and develop themselves and have proven that they can produced excellent young coaches.
White Rose Rugby and Yorkshire Sport Foundation have an extremely strong working relationship and this has only strengthened through this piece of work. They are always professional, reliable and approachable and have a great team that are always wanting and willing to get involved in new ideas.
Yorkshire Sport Foundation are looking forward to continuing work with White Rose Rugby, in particular seeing them return as part of the next Coach Core Leeds Apprenticeship programme.
Lauren Havercroft
The children (and teachers!!) are really sad that the coaching sessions have now come to an end. They have LOVED each session and both Ben and Tom have been amazing. The progression of skills for each session has been really evident and it’s been wonderful to see some of the children thriving. All of the sessions have been fun and engaging.
We have one boy who now wants to play thanks to Ben’s coaching. In the classroom, he is one of the lower ability children but he has shown a real talent for rugby so this is something that will really help his self-esteem and confidence.
Thank you so much and I hope that we can discuss having you in again next year!
‘Thank you for everything you have done over the 10 weeks. The students have loved it (whatever the weather!) and I’m sure they will miss it this week.’
‘Thank you for everything you’ve done with the students, they’ve absolutely loved every minute of it and they’ve got loads out of it in a time where this sort of thing could have been very difficult to do. They have benefitted massively from it and we hope we can work with you again to provide more opportunities for development!’
Thank you so much to the coaches for the sessions! All the students really enjoyed themselves and the coaches were great with the students. I am very much looking forward to the upcoming sessions.
The students said that they really enjoyed working with you and your coaches. They learnt a lot about rugby and enjoyed playing all the games. They felt much more confident about playing the game after you’d been and would really like to play more if at all possible.
‘White Rose Rugby delivered a 6 week rugby union session for our Bridge Builder students. All students within this group have additional needs and the majority have Education Health Care Plans in place. The White Rose coaches were excellent from the very first session, quickly establishing the needs of the group and adapting accordingly. Rugby ability level within the group at the start was low, with the majority having never participated before. As the weeks progressed the change in ability was clear to see, this is testament to the coaching undertaken. Cohesion within the group was enhanced from week 1 to week 6 this cohesion was also notable within the classroom post the end of the sessions. Overall the sessions were very well received and enjoyed by all who participated.’
White Rose Rugby have had an immense impact on the opportunities available to our students. Their hard work has enabled an increasingly large number of our students to enjoy additional rugby sessions in a highly motivating, engaging and safe environment.
Our students have enjoyed developing their skills and playing competitively against other schools and as a result and are now hooked. I cannot recommend White Rose Rugby enough and I thank the team for their continued hard work with our young people.
Our link up with White Rose Rugby has been a really good move for the club and its development. Since WRR started going into the local schools delivering their curriculum based courses we’ve been able to secure many transitions from the schools to club rugby.
The professional coaching ability ensure that kids have lots of fun as well as learn the basic core skills of the game. Their continued support at school festivals has led to our club hosting many regional schools festivals, which has again led to further transitions. Dave and Phil are always on hand to give advise on how best to operate and on the back of some advise at our very first meeting we started running 02 Touch Rugby sessions at the club – this now has on average 40 people attending and has seen past players both young and old returning to the club as well as encouraging parents to get involved too.