There are lots of ways you can get involved with the UK’s leading rugby charity. Your club could fundraise for us, get your members to sign up for a Wooden Spoon membership or even become a PCP club.
Fundraise for us
Malton & Norton RUFC‘s women’s squad showed a willingness to get their hands dirty in the name of Wooden Spoon. Members of the team tackled a Tough Mudder course and raised over £1,200, enduring trench crawls, cargo nets and electric shocks.
You can follow in their footsteps and take part in an event for us, or hold your own. If you would like more information on fundraising for us please email charity@woodenspoon.org.uk.
Become a PCP Club
We want to invite you to bolster our squad, and benefit yours, by joining the Wooden Spoon Partner Club Programme, supported by Irwin Mitchell.
By teaming up, we can raise funds to support both your rugby club and projects for children with disabilities or facing disadvantage in your area.
What is the Partner Club Programme?
Open to all rugby clubs in the UK and Ireland, the programme provides an opportunity to work with us to change children’s lives and secure mutual long-term gains through joint fundraising initiatives.
Partner clubs will benefit from our promotional prowess, merchandise, cost-saving savvy, celebrity contacts and strong links with the rugby community.
Watch our short video to find out more about how you can join in and help:
Irwin Mitchell, are sponsoring the inaugural Irwin Mitchell PCP Cup which will be awarded to a partner club at the end of this season along with a cheque for £750!
To be in with a chance of winning this prize all your PCP club needs to do is send us details of an event they have held this year to fundraise for Wooden Spoon. Irwin Mitchell will then pick a winner in April.
Please send your application by way of a paragraph about their event to rugby@woodenspoon.org.uk
Prosperous partnership
Among the rugby clubs already reaping the rewards of Partner Club status is Ripon RUFC. Andy Proud, the club’s Immediate Past President, said: “Our aim at Ripon RUFC is to be a community rugby club. A great way to demonstrate this is to adopt a charity that is making a difference in our local community.
“It is early days but the partnership is starting to work. Being in partnership with a well-known charity enables us to talk to people who might not have wanted to get involved before. The affiliation with Wooden Spoon is certainly opening new doors and attracting funds to us. People want to see that they are making a difference locally.
“If every rugby club across the country did just a few things like us and donated to Wooden Spoon collectively, then it would make a great difference to disadvantaged and disabled children across the UK and Ireland.”
Rugby clubs are joining in the socks campaign!
Our Socks campaign is an exciting initiative where players can wear Wooden Spoon O’Neills rugby socks for a match or home block fixture and help to raise vital funds for local children!
Here are just some of the clubs who have held Wooden Spoon Sock Days; Alton RFC, Ashford Barbarians RFC, Aylesford Bulls RFC, Ballyclare RFC, Banbury RFC, Brockleians RFC, Camberley RFC, Dartford Valley RFC, Fylde RFC, Harrogate RFC, Hook & Odiham RFC, Lichfield RUFC Ladies, Sevenoaks (Acorns) RFC, Swanley RFC, Vigo RFC and others including members of the world famous Barbarians FC.
Get in touch today. Email Matt Mitchell at rugby@woodenspoon.org.uk or call us on 01252 773720.
We are proud to count the following clubs among our ever-growing rugby family:
Wooden Spoon Bristol & Bath
University of Bristol Rugby Club
Wooden Spoon Chilterns
Reading Abbey RFC
Thatcham Rugby Club
Wooden Spoon Cornwall
Redruth RFC
Wooden Spoon Devon
Plymouth Albion RFC
Teignmouth RFC
Wooden Spoon Dorset & Wiltshire
Dorchester RFC
Chippenham RFC
Royal Wootton Bassett RFC
Supermarine RFC
Warminster RFC
Swindon St George Rugby League Club
Wooden Spoon Durham
Blaydon RFC
Chester-le-Street RFC
Darlington Mowden Park RFC
Durham Masonic RFC
Wooden Spoon Eastern Counties
Huntingdon RC
Norwich Union RFC
Rochford Hundred RFC
Southend RFC
Wooden Spoon Gloucestershire
7 Bamboos Rugby
Brockworth RFC
Cheltenham North RFC
Cheltenham Tigers RFC
Cirencester RFC
Coney Hill RFC
Gloucester and District Referees Society Ltd
Longlevens RFC
Old Centralians RFC
Old Cryptians RFC
Tewkesbury RFC
Wooden Spoon Hampshire
Alton RFC
Hook and Odiham RFC
Wooden Spoon Hertfordshire
Old Grammarians RFC
Royston RFC
Wooden Spoon Kent
Argonauts Wheelchair Sports Club
Ashford Barbarians RFC
Aylesford Bulls RFC
Beccehamian RFC
Brockleians RFC
Canterbury RFC
Dartford Valley RFC
Dartfordians RFC
Gillingham Anchorian RFC
Gravesend RFC
Kent Society RFU Referees
Lordswood RFC
Old Colfeians RFC
Park House FC
Royal Arsenal Tag RFC
Sevenoaks RFC
Sheppey RFC
Sidcup RFC
Sittingbourne RFC
Swanley RFC
The Old Guard RFC
Tunbridge Wells RFC
University of Greenwich RFC
Vigo RFC
Westcombe Park RFC
Wooden Spoon Lancashire
Fylde RFC
Wooden Spoon Leicestershire
Market Harborough RUFC
Wooden Spoon London
London Business School RFC
Imperial Medicals RFC
Wooden Spoon Manchester & Cheshire
Wilmslow RFC
Wooden Spoon Merseyside
Widnes Vikings RLFC
Wooden Spoon Oxfordshire
Banbury RFC
Wooden Spoon Scotland
Haddington RFC
Wooden Spoon Shropshire
Newport (Salop) RFC
Telford Hornets RFC
Wooden Spoon Surrey
Camberley RFC
Cranleigh RFC
Old Reigatian RFC
Wimbledon RFC
Wooden Spoon Sussex
Barns Green RFC
Crowborough RFC
East Grinstead RFC
Pulborough RFC
Wooden Spoon Staffordshire
Bloxwich RFC
Wooden Spoon Ulster
Ballyclare RFC
Wooden Spoon Warwickshire
AEI (Rugby) RFC
Harbury RFC
Kenilworth RFC
Nuneaton Old Edwardians RFC
Old Laurentians RFC
Wooden Spoon West Midlands
Handsworth RFC
Wooden Spoon Worcestershire
Worcester Wanderers RFC
Wooden Spoon Yorkshire
Harrogate RFC
Huddersfield RUFC
Ripon RFC
For more information, get in touch today
Don’t delay, sign up today!
For more details on how to join our team, download the Wooden Spoon Partner Club Programme leaflet:
For further information please contact Matt Mitchell on rugby@woodenspoon.org.uk or call us on 01252 773720.