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Back to School, Back Together: Why a Touch Tournament Is Never Just a Touch Tournament

by TackleLondonOur News September 21, 2026September 21, 2026Comments are Disabled

By the time the final whistle went at Croydon Rugby Football Club on Tuesday evening, the first week back to school after the Summer break, nobody seemed particularly interested in going home. The rugby had finished, but the evening hadn’t. Players who had spent the previous couple of hours chasing each other around the pitch …

One award. One brilliant decision. A new rugby kit for Chislehurst School

by TackleLondonOur News, Our Stories September 20, 2026Comments are Disabled

Something was different at TackleLondon training in Chislehurst last week; the girls arrived in matching kit, wearing their school’s colours as a team for the first time in its history. It’s the school’s first ever dedicated rugby kit, and it exists because one pupil decided her own achievement should belong to everyone. Last year, Freya …

We’ve been chosen as the charity of choice for the Wasps Legends Long Lunch 2026

by TackleLondonOur News September 14, 2026September 14, 2026Comments are Disabled

Thursday 8 October 2026The Anthologist, Gresham Street, London EC2V 7BB SAVE YOUR SEAT – BOOK NOW A legendary rugby reunion, a room full of stories – and a great afternoon in support of young Londoners. We’re thrilled to announce that TackleLondon, delivered through the Matt Ratana Rugby Foundation, has been selected as the charity of …

TackleLondon and The Legal Director launch a new charity partnership, with heartfelt thanks for supporting the Matt Ratana Rugby Foundation Awards Evening

by TackleLondonOur News September 10, 2026August 26, 2026Comments are Disabled

TackleLondon and The Legal Director (TLD), the UK National business law firm, are thrilled to announce a new charity partnership – one that begins, fittingly, with a thank you. TLD is known across the businesses it works with for a simple idea: that senior legal expertise should feel like part of the team. Its Client …

The PE funding schools have relied on for a decade is disappearing. Here’s what that means for children in England.

by TackleLondonOur News August 31, 2026August 31, 2026Comments are Disabled

For over ten years, primary schools across England have had one guarantee when it came to physical education: the PE and Sport Premium, a ring-fenced £320 million-a-year grant that schools had to spend on PE, school sport and physical activity, and nothing else. It’s rarely made headlines. But from 2027, it’s gone — and what …

Remember Saffron? Look Where Opportunity has Lead Her

by TackleLondonOur News, Our Stories August 12, 2026August 12, 2026Comments are Disabled

When Saffron first picked up a rugby ball with TackleLondon, none of us could have known where it would lead. This week, she earned her first international cap for the European Under-15s Touch Rugby Championships: an extraordinary achievement, built entirely on her own hard work, talent and determination. We’re so proud to have been a …

The Matt Ratana Rugby Academy Stays Open Through the Summer

by TackleLondonOur News August 3, 2026September 8, 2026Comments are Disabled

For many young Londoners, the summer holidays mean a welcome break from school. But six weeks without the structure, routine and community that term time provides can also leave some young people with fewer places to go and fewer opportunities to spend time with people they know and trust. That’s why, while schools are closed, …

Eight Schools, One Evening, Forty-Five Players: Matt Ratana Summer Touch Tournament

by TackleLondonOur News, School Tournaments July 25, 2026September 8, 2026Comments are Disabled

Just before the summer block began, 45 young people from eight of our TackleLondon provision schools came together at Croydon RFC for an evening of touch rugby, competition and, importantly, meeting people they might never otherwise have shared a pitch with. The format was deliberately different from a typical school tournament. Rather than keeping players …

The Last Play of the Summer – Girls Triangular Tournament

by TackleLondonOur News, School Tournaments July 20, 2026September 8, 2026Comments are Disabled

Three schools, one pitch, and a heatwave that nobody was going to let win. This July, girls from Langley Girls, Chislehurst, and Bullers Wood spent an afternoon on Langley’s pitch for a touch triangular: Years 7, 8 and 9, round robin, played in the kind of heat that usually empties a playground rather than fills …

“Believe in Yourself, Aim High”: Floyd Steadman OBE Inspires Our Community at the First Tackle London Matt Ratana Awards

by TackleLondonOur News July 13, 2026Comments are Disabled

There was a moment, early on at our very first TackleLondon Matt Ratana Awards evening, when the whole room fell quiet. Floyd Steadman OBE – the first Black captain of Saracens – described being a child in care, and how it felt to be told he would amount to nothing. It’s exactly the kind of …