Welcome to our inaugural Belsize Weblog publish. We’ll use this to maintain you up to date on membership information, tales from gamers, workforce content material and far more. In case you’ve obtained an concept for a publish get in contact with our new Head of Advertising, Becca Hone.
For the inaugural publish, I wished to share my imaginative and prescient for the rugby at Belsize having taken on the DoR over the summer season. I’m lucky to be constructing on an unbelievable platform set by Zach and others. Nevertheless, elsewhere issues are much less rosy with golf equipment shrinking round us amid the challenges going through the sport publish COVID.
Three months into the position and I’m assured that we’re set to take the membership to the subsequent stage, and listed below are a few of the adjustments that I feel will assist us get there:
Membership Integration – with the boys’s part again to five+ groups and the ladies’s part placing two sides out, we’re larger than ever! Now we wish to be certain that we’re built-in throughout the membership. To try this we’re much less separation at coaching, simplifying the squads, extra joint socials and a much bigger push to go and watch one another throughout the weekends. We’re additionally pushing for larger integration with the Regent’s Park Royals to construct our fanbase and hopefully recruit future gamers to Belsize.
Management – within the males’s part, our greatest aim this yr is to change into extra ‘participant lead’ and create a squad really feel, relatively than 5 groups unbiased of one another. That’s why we have now consolidated into two squads – efficiency and open – with the appointment of squad leaders, so gamers can take a extra lively position in driving membership requirements and have a larger platform to boost concepts. The participant management mannequin has additionally been mirrored within the coaches, with former gamers corresponding to David Southcombe, Nathan Thoday, Conor McGrath and Sam Atkins stepping up. The teaching arrange has additionally been boosted by the arrival of James Platt from Richmond, with a mandate alongside the senior coaches to play the rugby the gamers need!
The ladies’s squads have now been lead by Ralph Waghorn since 2020 and between him and Enrico Borra and with the assist of Francis Morris, our ladies’s part goes from power to power, with sufficient ladies to now frequently subject 2 squads at weekends!
Media & Social – we would like the size of the membership to be mirrored on socials to draw extra gamers and sponsors. To try this we wish to massively improve the quantity of match day content material, the place doable getting scores, movies and interviews from each sport. Thus far the suggestions has been nice, however we love extra folks to get entangled and assist Becca and the workforce. We additionally wish to choose up the vitality on publish sport socials, with extra, higher marketed occasions by the yr. In case you’ve obtained an concept, get in contact with Shirley who’s doing a terrific job throughout the membership. Lastly, hopefully you’ll now all have visited the Locke Tavern, our new residence venue. It’s a cracking pub, with a terrific ambiance, the place we’ll hopefully be for the long run. Simply bear in mind to all the time stay respectful of the workers and different prospects.
Making your lives simpler – course of is rarely going to be the sexiest subject, however its what retains the membership operating. Following suggestions we’ve introduced workforce bulletins ahead, moved on to Spond to raised join taking part in and socials and are attempting to maintain the admin off the WhatsApp….leaving extra room for garbage banter.!
As ever, we massively recognize your suggestions. Get in contact with concepts or options and most significantly get your mates right down to Belsize. Hope to see as lots of you on the sector weekend!
James Lindsey
Director of Rugby
