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The England Touch Association is now accepting applications to join its Board of Directors as Chair and Non-Executive Directors. The Chair and Non-Executive Directors (NEDs) provide a creative contribution to the England Touch Association's Board. The Chair and the six NEDs help the organisation set its Vision, Mission and Strategy, and provide a check and challenge of the Exec ...

The pools have been drawn for Round 2 National of the 2025 AICPA&CIMA BUCS University Touch Championship. Oxford 1, Manchester and Cardiff 1 are in the Cup/Plate division for the first time this season, joining the throng of teams who will be trying to stop Exeter 1 winning their second Cup of the 2025 campaign. Bath 1, Nottingham Trent 1 and Loughborough 1 are the other to ...

England Touch has today announced the appointment of Kevin Hill as the Association’s new Event Delivery Lead. Kevin is one of the most experienced events managers in European Touch, having helped to deliver three Touch World Cups (Coffs Harbour, Putrajaya x 2), three European Touch Championships (Swansea, Jersey and Nottingham), four European Junior Touch Championships (Notting ...

The University of Exeter have set the early pace in the national rounds of the 2025 AICPA&CIMA BUCS University Touch Championships. Having set the standard for recent years, Exeter’s first team took their winning run from South Round 2 into the national level by beating Bath’s first team in the Cup final at Nottingham’s Riverside Sports Complex. Historically two of the stro ...

The pools have been confirmed for the AICPA&CIMA BUCS University Touch Championship National Round 1 at Nottingham's Riverside Sports Complex on Saturday, 22 February, 2025. In all 35 teams will be representing 19 universities from as far afield as Exeter and Edinburgh. Rankings for the national rounds have been based on the results from the pre-Christmas regional events, ...

The England Touch Association has today announced an exciting sponsorship agreement with AICPA&CIMA for this spring’s National Rounds of the 2025 BUCS University Touch Championships. This sponsorship means that, for the first time, England Touch will be able to live stream all three of the National Rounds, something the Association’s management and participating teams and p ...

The Federation of International Touch (FIT), England Touch and the University of Nottingham have today released the 2024 Touch World Cup impact report, unveiling a £10 million economic benefit for the local area. The report was produced in-line with UK Sport's framework for measuring the impact of major events and draws from arange of data sets including a bespoke participant s ...

The venues have been announced for the 2025 National Touch Series. The National Touch Series returns to Burton RFC and Old Leamingtonians RFC for the Mens and Womens events on the weekends of May 17-18 and May 31-June 1 respectively. Old Leamingtonians also hosts Round 1 of the Mixed National Touch Series on the weekend of June 14-15, but then the NTS roadshow heads to two new ...

The first workshops in our Raise Your Game CPD series are open for registration! Dominating the ruck in attack & midfield options – Tues 21/01/25 Dominating the ruck in defence & midfield options – Tues 28/01/25 Line attack including running lines – Tues 04/02/25 Line defence: Policy vs Tactics – Tues 11/02/25 All four workshops are presented by Peter Bell, current En ...

We welcomed our new Chief Executive, Vince Mayne, into the England Touch Association in early December. With his feet under the table we caught up with Vince to see how he is enjoying his new role. A few weeks in, how are you finding it? The ETA is a complex organisation, magnified because it is so close knit where everyone knows everyone, except me, who knows no-one! I’ve read ...