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Small grants making a huge difference to community Rugby League More than 30 Rugby League clubs, schools and community organisations from across England are the latest beneficiaries of small grants from the RLWC2021 CreatedBy programme. The following awards total almost £230,000 taking the grand total of RLWC2021 small grants to more than £780,000 and the…

RFL Statement The Betfred Championship and League 1 clubs considered a number of options for the 2021 season at a virtual meeting on Wednesday evening. The consensus reached was that the Betfred Championship season could and should be delayed by several weeks from the scheduled start of late February, in recognition of the current public…

Our pre-season planning was put in further disarray when the RFL announced that they were suspending all activity below Super League until Friday. This is to give some breathing space for the RFL to consider the ever-worsening COVID situation in the community and to perhaps put some additional protocols in place. A clubs meeting has…

The latest Government announcement of lockdown measures has once again resulted in us having to put together a revised budget. We have swapped and changed budget forecasts depending on what COVID Tier we are in and even what division we will be playing in and we must once again repeat the exercise. It now looks…

The Prime Minister’s announcement of a new National Lockdown for England on Monday night will impact on Rugby League, as all other sports and sections of society, in a number of ways. Community Rugby League, which had been due to resume at youth and open age level in January, is now required to be suspended…

WE are delighted to introduce our ‘Local Heroes’ campaign – designed to celebrate the efforts and achievements of those who went above and beyond in 2020! 2020 was a year to forget on many levels – but through the adversity we saw people go above beyond to save lives and keep the country going and…

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Barrow Raiders are saddened to hear the news of the passing of Ray Wallace Wally was Barrow Raiders kit-man spanning three decades and one of the friendliest people you could meet. Recently he had stepped back due to ill health but was still around on match days, lending a hand when required. Wally will be…

RAIDERS ARE DELIGHTED TO SECURE THE SIGNATURE OF RYAN SHAW Barrow Raiders are delighted to announce the signing of Ryan Shaw on a two year deal. Ryan was contracted to Leigh on a part-time basis and following their promotion to Super League asked for a release as he looks to the future and life beyond…