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England Touch is proud to continue our deal where clubs can purchase the latest Federation of International Touch rated Steeden balls at a reduced rate.The Classic Touch ball is available at £13.50 (plus delivery*), while the training ball is available for just £11.50 (plus delivery*).*Free delivery on all orders over £125.To order your balls contact gregg@englandtouch.org.uk&n ...

As you maybe are aware, England Touch are driving forward our safeguarding and child protection policies and it is a requirement that all clubs affiliated to us, identify their main coaches who are working with any U18 or vulnerable adults.It is our duty to ensure that all coaches working within our touch community hold relevant, up to date DBS checks.We have a support system i ...

As you all know we had a great response to the series this year and the need to build on this is necessary. There have been many suggestions from most clubs on a format for the next 12 months and we thank you all for your contributions. To deliver a quality series, with excellent medical provision, facilities and full time referees is difficult and therefore there will be a cha ...

As we plan our assault of Coffs Harbour, here's a bit of history for you:1999 FIT World Cup - In a first for a northern hemisphere team, the England W30's took a 5-4 bronze medal win over Niue, giving our nation the first World Cup medal win outside of the southern hemisphere.In what was a precursor to the current European Touch Championships back in 1991, the comp saw our resi ...

16 England Referees ventured to Swansea to take part in the Euro’s.  England was well represented within the group on 72 referees, we had junior referees all the way through to Team Leaders and Assistant Team Leaders, a Go to Coach and a Sheriff amongst us - but we were a team, us England refs may have been split up but we were all very excited and waiting for the big event to ...

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After a hugely successful #TouchNationals and Open Trials, the England Touch High Performance Team along with the elite coaches have announced players for the upcoming 2015 Touch World Cup in Australia.Congratulations to those players selected into the initial training squads. This is the start of an incredible journey and the World Cup is yours and your team’s chance to achiev ...

England Men's Open player James Heptonstall, decided to see if he could beat the underground tube from one stop to the next (Mansion House to Cannon St)James had 1 minute and 20 seconds to navigate 380m, 2 barriers and 75 steps, let alone a busy station and London streets and made it with only seconds to spare.This week his exhilarating #RaceTheTube youtube video went viral!htt ...

The 2014 Touch Nationals took place on the 6th & 7th of September in Cambridge. The tournament consisted of a Men’s Open, Women’s Open and Mixed U18s divisions and ran in conjunction with 2014 Open Trial.Under 18sThe Mixed U18s was a 3 Match series in which the Southern Mavericks and the Northern Stars played each other on the Sunday of the tournament.Game 1 saw both teams ...