£47,500 for Mancunians

[TheMancunianCandidate]

Mancunians are celebrating a major funding boost after receiving nearly £50,000 to kick off new sporting activity across Manchester.

Mancunians, who are Manchester’s dual code rugby club have been granted £47,500 to grow their successful Active Mancunians programme across the city. The programme will see both codes of Rugby, Handball, Dodgeball, Wheelchair Rugby, Walking Football and new sports including Walking Netball and Walking Rugby introduced at various areas around the UK’s second city.

The Active Mancunians programme, which is unique to Manchester will be delivered in collaboration with the growing number of partners that Mancunians has across the city and will create a gateway for people getting involved in sport for the first time, for those returning to activity and to signpost people of all ages into the existing sports teams that the club has.

The programme will also see Mancunians extend their ever-growing primary school programme to new schools in new areas of Manchester which have been requesting to join. The club is seeing a steady stream of children join the club’s out of school activity sessions from primary schools and this is seen as a priority area.

Read more here: 

https://wearemancunians.com/2017/03/28/funding-boost/

[Gerrumonside ref]

Good work, well done and nice photo.

Maybe somone down the East Lancs will set up:

"Liverpudlians RL" or "Scousers RL" so you can have a derby!

[Guest]

30 minutes ago, Gerrumonside ref said:

Good work, well done and nice photo.

Maybe somone down the East Lancs will set up:

"Liverpudlians RL" or "Scousers RL" so you can have a derby!

That would be great for RL in this country. 

[henage]

2 hours ago, TheMancunianCandidate said:

Mancunians are celebrating a major funding boost after receiving nearly £50,000 to kick off new sporting activity across Manchester.

Mancunians, who are Manchester’s dual code rugby club have been granted £47,500 to grow their successful Active Mancunians programme across the city. The programme will see both codes of Rugby, Handball, Dodgeball, Wheelchair Rugby, Walking Football and new sports including Walking Netball and Walking Rugby introduced at various areas around the UK’s second city.

The Active Mancunians programme, which is unique to Manchester will be delivered in collaboration with the growing number of partners that Mancunians has across the city and will create a gateway for people getting involved in sport for the first time, for those returning to activity and to signpost people of all ages into the existing sports teams that the club has.

The programme will also see Mancunians extend their ever-growing primary school programme to new schools in new areas of Manchester which have been requesting to join. The club is seeing a steady stream of children join the club’s out of school activity sessions from primary schools and this is seen as a priority area.

Read more here: 

https://wearemancunians.com/2017/03/28/funding-boost/

This is the way forward , different sports working together . Well done .

[Wellsy4HullFC]

What are the rules of walking rugby?

[Just Browny]

9 minutes ago, Wellsy4HullFC said:

What are the rules of walking rugby?

Warrington have been trialling it this season.

[TheMancunianCandidate]

8 minutes ago, Wellsy4HullFC said:

What are the rules of walking rugby?

It's the same as Tag rugby but no running or kicking. One foot needs to be on the floor at all times, on and off the ball. And before the flat cappers ask, it has a play the ball also. 

[TheMancunianCandidate]

17 minutes ago, henage said:

This is the way forward , different sports working together . Well done .

Thank you. 

[gogledd]

Does your Wheelchair Rugby programme include wheelchair rugby league? If so, please contact North Wales Crusaders Wheelchair RL and perhaps we can sort out a friendly fixture. You can send me a private message on this forum or contact us via Facebook if you'd like to arrange this.

[Damien]

I know that Mancunians say they are a multi sport club but are they mainly a Rugby League club or are they now as much a Rugby Union club as a Rugby League one?

[TheMancunianCandidate]

6 minutes ago, gogledd said:

Does your Wheelchair Rugby programme include wheelchair rugby league? If so, please contact North Wales Crusaders Wheelchair RL and perhaps we can sort out a friendly fixture. You can send me a private message on this forum or contact us via Facebook if you'd like to arrange this.

Yes it does. We've engaged with a team manager who is going to run things. He'll get in touch. Can you send your details please?

[TheMancunianCandidate]

1 hour ago, Damien said:

I know that Mancunians say they are a multi sport club but are they mainly a Rugby League club or are they now as much a Rugby Union club as a Rugby League one?

We'll always be a rugby league club. All the other activities we do are done to compliment our rugby league activities - our core. 

We run union activities over the winter simply to prevent people from what we call 'drift'. I.e. We spend a lot of time and effort recruiting players of all ages to the club in the spring and summer only for them to go off in the winter and play union with the majority of them either not coming back to the club at the time of year we want them to or coming back at all. That way the rugby league side of the club gets stronger each year. 

 

 

[Damien]

9 minutes ago, TheMancunianCandidate said:

We'll always be a rugby league club. All the other activities we do are done to compliment our rugby league activities - our core. 

We run union activities over the winter simply to prevent people from what we call 'drift'. I.e. We spend a lot of time and effort recruiting players of all ages to the club in the spring and summer only for them to go off in the winter and play union with the majority of them either not coming back to the club at the time of year or coming back at all. That way the rugby league side of the club gets stronger each year. 

 

 

Good stuff, thanks.

[Guest]

I just love how whenever the mancunians post any good news it seems that the Rangers fire back with their own good news or vice versa. All good stuff for the development of RL in the great city of Manchester.

[Odsal Outlaw]

47 minutes ago, TheMancunianCandidate said:

We'll always be a rugby league club. All the other activities we do are done to compliment our rugby league activities - our core. 

We run union activities over the winter simply to prevent people from what we call 'drift'. I.e. We spend a lot of time and effort recruiting players of all ages to the club in the spring and summer only for them to go off in the winter and play union with the majority of them either not coming back to the club at the time of year we want them to or coming back at all. That way the rugby league side of the club gets stronger each year. 

 

 

I was going to ask the same, it sounded like the RL focus was weakening in some of the news stories, but if RL remains the core focus then that's great stuff.  Good luck with the journey to the pro ranks, but more importantly good luck building the youth structure behind it, sounds a real success (and always be wary of the dark side ?)

[TheMancunianCandidate]

1 hour ago, Odsal Outlaw said:

I was going to ask the same, it sounded like the RL focus was weakening in some of the news stories, but if RL remains the core focus then that's great stuff.  Good luck with the journey to the pro ranks, but more importantly good luck building the youth structure behind it, sounds a real success (and always be wary of the dark side ?)

Thanks. It's a constant battle to get rugby league on the agenda anywhere in Manchester. We made a decision 4/5 years ago that if we are to reach our objective then we'd have to do one of two things: spend a lot of money for not much chance of return which would be unsustainable and result in the club having debt, or that we play the long game and develop strong local partnerships. We chose the latter and to add other sports to our repertoire and we're much, much stronger for it. 

[Wiltshire Warrior Dragon]

Well done to all at your club in securing this.

As somebody with a professional interest in grant-making, can I ask which body is providing the £47.5k grant, please?

[yipyee]

3 hours ago, walter sobchak said:

I just love how whenever the mancunians post any good news it seems that the Rangers fire back with their own good news or vice versa. All good stuff for the development of RL in the great city of Manchester.

Its competition that drives improvement! 

Great it exsists!

[Guest]

4 hours ago, yipyee said:

Its competition that drives improvement! 

Great it exsists!

Indeed. Plus there's plenty of room for both teams in Manchester.

[TheLegendOfTexEvans]

2 hours ago, walter sobchak said:

Indeed. Plus there's plenty of room for both teams in Manchester.

No conflict both teams are doing two different things, and competition is good to get results.

Two positives new stories this week for Rugby League in Manchester.

The sooner mancunians are in the North West Mens League the better, creates a great local derby. 

[DoubleD]

3 minutes ago, TheLegendOfTexEvans said:

No conflict both teams are doing two different things, and competition is good to get results.

Two positives new stories this week for Rugby League in Manchester.

The sooner mancunians are in the North West Mens League the better, creates a great local derby. 

What league are they in currently?

[TheLegendOfTexEvans]

4 minutes ago, DoubleD said:

What league are they in currently?

Just checked the website it does not say, I thought they were in the mens entry\merit league (technically still NWML).

Also noticed no entry for Canalsiders, have they disbanded?

Pity if thats the case we should be playing 9s or 10s like they do in yorkshire to give teams games. 

[TheMancunianCandidate]

9 hours ago, DoubleD said:

What league are they in currently?

Which team? 

The men's team play in the NW merit league.

The U7's/ Cubs are playing in NWC festivals 

The U8's are playing in NWC festivals 

We may also have an U14's for the first time who are probably going be to be playing firendlies this year. 

[TheLegendOfTexEvans]

On 30/03/2017 at 11:23 PM, TheMancunianCandidate said:

Thanks. It's a constant battle to get rugby league on the agenda anywhere in Manchester. We made a decision 4/5 years ago that if we are to reach our objective then we'd have to do one of two things: spend a lot of money for not much chance of return which would be unsustainable and result in the club having debt, or that we play the long game and develop strong local partnerships. We chose the latter and to add other sports to our repertoire and we're much, much stronger for it. 

Caught Manchester Rangers V Bold Miners it was 2.5 hrs live broadcast time tonight going out across the city on 106.6fm

I will put the 'listen again link' on for you when it comes out.

Nice to see Rugby League on the agenda in Manchester, they definitely gave Mancunians a mention as well on the Rugby League slot.

 

 

 

[TheMancunianCandidate]

On 31/03/2017 at 10:50 PM, TheLegendOfTexEvans said:

Caught Manchester Rangers V Bold Miners it was 2.5 hrs live broadcast time tonight going out across the city on 106.6fm

I will put the 'listen again link' on for you when it comes out.

Nice to see Rugby League on the agenda in Manchester, they definitely gave Mancunians a mention as well on the Rugby League slot.

 

 

 

Have you become ther unofficial press officer, Stuart? Your posts are getting increasily like that North Manchester RL chap who used to  post on here. What happened to him? 

It's fanatstic weather for our 8th Birthday Party today. Four clubs coming to Hough End with their junior teams to celebrate with us. Should be a great day. Our wheelchair and tag teams are getting an outing soon also too.