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Major spectator sports in England will receive a combined £300m emergency cash injection to protect their immediate futures over the winter period. The Sports Winter ... More

The sport and physical activity sector "hasn't done enough" to tackle persisting inequalities within the industry, according to a statement signed by more than 80 ... More

Leaders of major English sports have told MPs that they are set to lose more than £700m between them over the next 12 months. Appearing ... More

Rugby Football Union (RFU) chief Bill Sweeney has said the sport wants to play a major part in getting the public back to normality, once ... More

Having a 'head of wellness' at schools would get students and staff more active, health insurer Vitality suggest a guaranteed way to increase people's physical ... More

The Rugby Football Union (RFU) has posted losses of £30.9m for 2017-18 – a year in which the national governing body also made 54 staff ... More

Steve Brown has announced he will step down as CEO of the Rugby Football Union (RFU) after just 14 months in the role. Brown's shock ... More

England Rugby has teamed up with Virgin Active to create a training programme aimed at improving physical strength and mental wellbeing. Devised by the Rugby ... More

The Rugby Football Union (RFU) has named Manchester-based firm Mather and Co to design its new World Rugby Museum at the spiritual home of the ... More

The Rugby Football Union has put nearly £100m (US$134.18m, €113.80m) back into the sport this year – an increase of 11 per cent on 2016. ... More

The RFU and Sport England will invest £10m to get 100,000 more women and girls playing rugby over the next four years, it has been ... More

The Rugby Football Union (RFU) has appointed Steve Brown as its new CEO, with the move concluding an “extensive selection process”, led by a board ... More

Rugby coaches and PE teachers will be offered a free course to teach them how to instruct players and pupils to engage in an injury ... More

The Rugby Football Union (RFU) has begun its search for a new chief executive after Ian Ritchie announced that he will retire this summer. Ritchie, ... More

Ten teams have been selected to compete in the new Women’s Super Rugby competition, as the game’s governing body steps up its efforts to improve ... More

People in Aylesbury, Preston and Weston-super-Mare will be able to play rugby for £1 on new artificial grass pitches built by the Rugby Football Union ... More

The Rugby Football Union (RFU) will shake up its coaching development programme after hiring for England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) executive Gordon Lord. Lord ... More

Twenty-seven clubs and partners have been lined up by the Rugby Football Union (RFU) as part of the first phases of its £50m artificial grass ... More

National governing bodies that receive more than £1m (US$1.2m, €1.1m) of public money over a set cycle – such as the Football Association (FA) and ... More

Record revenues for the Rugby Football Union (RFU) contributed to a 5 per cent increase in the organisation’s investment in the grassroots game. The national ... More

The Rugby Football Union (RFU) is planning to develop an artificial grass pitch in Liverpool on the site of one of the Football Association’s (FA) ... More

Aylesbury, Preston and Weston-super-Mare are the first towns to benefit from floodlit artificial pitches under the Rugby Football Union’s (RFU) four-year development plan. To create ... More

Community rugby and the academies of professional rugby clubs will receive fresh investment following a new £200m+ agreement signed between the Rugby Football Union (RFU) ... More

The Rugby Football Union (RFU) has surpassed its target of 15,000 registered players for its O2 Touch programme a year ahead of schedule. Growth experienced ... More

Sport England has praised the governing bodies of rugby union, netball and cricket for their insight work after all three saw substantial boosts in participation. ... More