New Get Into Rugby website boosts mass-participation program
World Rugby has launched a new website to help support its rebranding of the hugely successful mass-participation program, Get Into Rugby.
Apart from offering all the news and images of the latest Get Into Rugby activities taking place around the world in 15 languages, the website will also serve as a valuable resource to those looking to set up their own Get Into Rugby programs as this story of phenomenal growth continues.
Since its inception in 2013, Get Into Rugby has introduced hundreds of thousands of people to the game each year with this number likely to increase even more quickly as more and more activities are planned around the world. In 2015 alone more than one million new participants joined the rugby family through Get Into Rugby.
As part of the new-look Get Into Rugby, a game-based approach to coaching has been developed to ensure fun training sessions and a positive experience for the program’s participants as they learn not only rugby skills but also general social skills designed to help in all facets of daily life.
In addition, through Get Into Rugby more resources will be made available for club development and photo and video resources will help clubs and unions to promote their programs.
World Rugby General Manager – Development, Morgan Buckley commented “the response by member unions to Get Into Rugby has been very positive and the program is now a key part of their strategy to grow the game and promote the values of rugby in their countries.
“World Rugby has 120 member unions and Get Into Rugby has been shown to be an effective way to grow the game in the smallest of rugby nations as well as in the biggest and best.”
2015 was a record-breaking year for Get Into Rugby:
• More than 1,027,000 participants were included since January 2015
• 36% of the participants are girls
• 154 registered unions (18 new registered unions this year), 129 active unions since January 2015
• 2,000 active locations
• More than 20,800 trained personnel delivering the activities
• The coldest launch took place in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk where temperatures hit a low of -21 degrees
• The activity which took place at the highest altitude was at more than 4,000 metres above sea level in Bolivia
Click here to visit the new Get Into Rugby website.
Image: Young Brazilians try the game in advance of rugby sevens featuring at the 2016 Rio Olympics.
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