Steve Grainger news

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

Rugby will touch the lives of thousands of young people from under-represented communities, as part of an ambitious new project from Premiership Rugby and England ... 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

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

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

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

A Steering Group has been established to make Coventry one of the “leading cities in the world” in rugby by 2023. The 17-strong group, including ... More

English rugby legend Maggie Alphonsi has been appointed as an ambassador for the Rugby Football Union’s (RFU) Spirit of Rugby participation legacy project. Alphonsi retired ... More

The Rugby Football Union’s (RFU) commercial partnership with CBRE – which contributed towards a £5m (US$6.9m, €6.4m) total for the body’s All Schools initiative – ... More

The Rugby Football Union (RFU) will invest £57m (US$86.4m, €78.5m) into the development of 100 artificial pitches over the next four-years as it attempts to ... More

The Rugby Football Union (RFU) boosted its grassroots investment by 5 per cent to £32.5m in 2014/15 as its revenue surpassed the £200m mark for ... More

Improvements to clubhouses, a focus on coaching and investment in artificial pitches have been highlighted as ways to improve and maintain adolescent participation in rugby. ... More

Leisure sector organisations have issued a mixed response to the chancellor's Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR) published yesterday (20 October). George Osborne announced a 25 per ... More

Sue Campbell CBE, chair of UK Sport and the Youth Sport Trust, is to enter the House of Lords as a crossbench peer. The appointment ... More

Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Dame Kelly Holmes have joined forces to launch the Youth Sport Trust’s first National School Sport Week that runs from ... More

Coventry has been selected as the host city of the 2007 UK School Games. The announcement was made at the conclusion of the inaugural four-day ... More