Cirencester RFC

JustGiving Campaign Exceeds £10,000 Target. Thank you.

Dear Club Members and CRFC Supporters

I would like to take this opportunity to personally thank everyone who has supported the club in recent months and with the phenomenal crowdfunding effort via JustGiving in aid of costs incurred from our unwelcome visitors.

Having endured a tough winter at the Whiteway, and for rugby in general, we finally looked forwards to breaking free of the COVID restrictions and getting the club up and running again, so this setback was incredibly disheartening and frustrating. However, the speed of response to help clear up and get the club open again has been simply fantastic. It is truly humbling to not only raise such an amazing amount for the club in such difficult times but to see such a wide range of support for CRFC from across the community.

We also thank the RFU and GRFU for sharing our campaign across the wider rugby networks.

A heartfelt thank you again to everyone for your support from all our members and club users who have been affected by these recent events.

Please feel free to pop into the clubhouse at any time and enjoy a refreshment in our large, socially distanced marquee and open paddock, where you will be warmly welcomed by the Cirencester members.

Kindest regards,

David Reeves

Chairman CRFC

Please donate to our Just Giving campaign

We're hoping to raise £10,000 to recover funds for security, eviction fees, infrastructure, and clean-up costs after many travellers came to Cirencester Rugby last week.

Please donate to the Cirencester Rugby Crowdfunding Page and help us recoup these unplanned and rather significant expenses.

As a result of a huge volunteer effort, our club is now back open for rugby, training, and the #pubinthepaddock

Your support is most welcome and we are grateful.

Please read our story below and every donation helps to keep the rugby club and local community safe from such events happening again.

https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/ciren-rugby?utm_term=wma3PZyxQ

We are back open again !

We are back open stronger and cleaner @cirencesterrugby after a shocker of a week.

Fri from 6:30pm til 10pm.
Sat from 1pm til 10pm
Sun from 12:30 til 4pm

Pop for a Friday night pizza: 5-8

WORK PARTY shout out to all volunteers from 10am til 1pm🙏 Sat morning. Needed even more!

🏉 M&Y training resumes Sunday morning 🏉

Warm welcome to the Ciren Lacrosse team who are training at the Whiteway on Sundays.

All go !

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Thank you for the BIG clean up.

The biggest THANK YOU to 30+ lovely volunteers for helping to clean up @cirencesterrugby once the travellers had left this evening, after arriving on Saturday evening. Not the best job in the world as you can imagine (not posted poo pics!) but a great effort by all to reclaim our club.

Huge progress made and tomorrow help from CDC with waste and hazmat clearance.

We plan to reopen this weekend and will publish training and open details soon. Seniors return tomorrow evening.

So once again, thank you all and a special shout out to chairman Dave Reeves for taking the lead with the police and visitors ! To Will for surveillance duties during last night and Dave Cater for CDC liaison and making the land secure temporarily. So many more names to mention but thanks to all.

Great club spirit #resilient @grfurugby #community #spirit #teamwork #hardwork #cirencester

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