by Tewkesbury RFC | Oct 27, 2022 | Club Info
Last nights CPR/AED (defibrillator) training session with the team from
Great Western Air Ambulance Charity was an outstanding success with over 40 players, coaches and members all wanting to now how to respond such a vital life saving skill. The Heartstarter team explained the difference between cardiac arrest vs heart attack giving a demonstration on how to put a person into the recovery position and how to apply CPR and/or AED. We hope they never have to use these skills but good to know they are there. GWAAC respond to 5.5 calls every day and receive no government or lottery funding and rely on people like us to keep them flying. We raised over £85.00 on the night so thank you everyone for donating. If you are interested in helping raise funds for GWAAC or would like to donate visit their website or their is a collecting tin on the bar!
https://greatwesternairambulance.com/donateWe’d certainly encourage any other clubs to take advantage of this wonderful opportunity with GWAAC Gloucestershire Rfu
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by Tewkesbury RFC | Oct 20, 2022 | Club Info
The bore hole drilling this week was a great success with us striking a water source by going down just 90 ft. Whilst it’s not difficult to strike water in Tewkesbury, you are never sure so hitting the right spot was really important for this project.
We started several years go with the investment in drainage into the training paddock in order that we could survive winter better and have the best training surface we can achieve. The next phase is to be able to irrigate in the summer months, but to do that we need a sustainable water source, without this we risk having either unplayable pitches or burdening the club with additional water costs per year as we would need to take directly from the mains supply.The borehole will enable us to extract water during these dry periods and keep the pitches watered so they have time to recover during summer are in a playable condition as we start the season.
Next steps are to lay the concrete pads that will take water tanks capable of storing something like 60,000 litres, as well as a small pump shed that will pump the water from the bore hole into the tanks that will ultimately feed into an irrigation system across the training pitch and beyond to the main pitch.
Once we have borehole and tanks in place we will be looking at the irrigation itself and getting 50,000 litres of water twice a week onto the training pitch and main pitch
Thanks to Davies Drilling and to Enovert community trust for their support.
by Tewkesbury RFC | Oct 17, 2022 | Club Info
Well done to Freya, Melissa and Laila from our U11’s squad who attended the Girls Hartpury Experience this weekend designed to get more girls into the game. The girls had an amazing day, having the opportunity to be coached by professional women’s rugby coaches, so we’re looking forward to them bringing those skills they’ve learnt back to the team. Added to that they also got to be flag bearers for Gloucester Ladies V Exeter Ladies. Well done girls you did us proud! Thanks to everyone at Hartpury for putting on this great event.
by Tewkesbury RFC | Sep 29, 2022 | Club Info
Tewkesbury RFC will be hosting Great Western Heartstarters volunteers at our club on Wednesday 26 October at 7pm. This is a fantastic opportunity from the GWAAC team to receive training from the professionals about in life-saving skills and CPR.
It is also an opportunity to learn more about your local Air Ambulance and the work they do to save lives in our community and how you can help them continue to do that successfully. Members and non-members welcome. Email info@tewkesburyrfc.co.uk if you would like to take part in this great opportunity.
by Tewkesbury RFC | Sep 8, 2022 | Club Info
Tewkesbury RFC along with the rest of the rugby union community are saddened to hear of the death of Her Majesty Queen Eizabeth II and offer our condolences to the whole of the Royal Family at this sad time
