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An exciting Opens competition is in prospect for this coming Bank Holiday weekend in Nottingham. With the Nationals switching to the start of the domestic season rather than its previous place at the end, there has been no international tournaments or National Touch Series events to take energy out of the legs, or indeed provide any form guide to follow. So there will be all ey ...

Over the last few months the England Touch management has been working closely with Boing, the country’s leading provider of resources for schools to develop the physical literacy of children and young people through active and inclusive play. England Touch has developed six games for the PlayBox, each specifically designed to develop a core skill that can then be used in organ ...

Ahead of the 2023 domestic season, the England Touch Association has announced the elections of a new Chair and Non-Executive Director at its recent Annual General Meeting. Tim Loveridge is the Association’s new Chair, following the departure of Mark Croston to the Federation of International Touch in September and Justin Conway’s interim period at the helm. Loveridge brings co ...

Ahead of the new season England Touch is announcing the first major changes to individual membership and club/league affiliations in more than five years! Growing our membership base is one of the Association’s key focuses for the next decade: we want to be able to engage and serve more of the people currently participating in Touch at all levels across the country in ways that ...

England Touch’s membership benefits have long included a variety of savings across a number of areas away from the Touch field, and heading into the 2023 season we’re delighted to be able to offer members a new way of saving, thanks to our insurance providers, AON, adding value to your membership. ‘Discounts and Recognition by AON’ gives England Touch members a number of ways t ...

Exeter Hurricanes were crowned as the inaugural British Universities and Colleges Sport (BUCS) University Touch Champions at a special ceremony on Saturday evening. The Hurricanes regained the national title they last won in 2019, but this time around there were all-important BUCS points at stakes, helping the University of Exeter as they try to chase down Nottingham and Loughb ...

Exeter Hurricanes capped their British Universities and Colleges Sport University Touch Championships campaign with their second successive Cup title. The Hurricanes had been slowly building their momentum throughout the season, and while they had missed out on the Cup final in Round 3 National they returned to Riverside Sports Complex on Saturday having bagged the big prize in ...

The inaugural British Universities and Colleges Sport University Touch Championship reaches its climax in Nottingham tomorrow (Saturday), and the situation could not be any more finely poised. Loughborough 1 and Exeter Hurricanes head into Round 3 tied on 118 points at the top of the table, the Midlanders having reached the Cup finals in both Rounds 1 and 2 and the south west ...

The inaugural British Universities and Colleges Sport University Touch Championship reaches its climax this Saturday, and for the first time you can watch all the field 1 action on live stream! Loughborough 1 and Exeter 1 head to Nottingham's Riverside Sports Complex tied on league points at the top of the table, with Surrey 1 breathing down their necks, which makes every try a ...

As with every responsible sporting national governing body, the England Touch Association is always keen to understand the existing knowledge of its community across a variety of areas, which is why the Association’s management is welcoming some new independent research by Coventry University into the understanding of knowledge which exists within the sport among key stakeholde ...