www.leighcenturions.com

www.leighcenturions.com

Brilliant. Well done.

Can anyone enlighten us as to what they do?

Have a look here - www.leighcenturions.com/page.php?id=375

Have a look here - www.leighcenturions.com/page.php?id=375

Good point

Quote ="Toadstool"Have a look here - www.leighcenturions.com/page.php?id=375'" This just says what their aims and values are - but what do they actually do? Not being funny or anything, I genuinely don't know what they do or where they do it!

Quote ="Toadstool"Have a look here - www.leighcenturions.com/page.php?id=375'" This just says what their aims and values are - but what do they actually do? Not being funny or anything, I genuinely don't know what they do or where they do it!

They tick a lot of boxes, but like a lot of RFL schemes does anyone actually check up ?

Yes thats why they won Community Club of the year, if any club have players working for the community department then they are examined with a small toothed comb to ensure they are not breaking the salary cap, and why am I not surprised its two Miners supporters who are questioning the award, typical attitude from certain quarters in the town AGAIN.

Congratulations to Hannah and her team, Well done





Click on the other pages on the community section, they give you a bit more of an idea of some of the good things they do, they run those programmes in all the local schools, and Bolton.



Not sure what you're implying here?

Why is it negative to ask what they do?

I also don't know anything that they do but have no perference over Miners/East so don't use that excuse for my 'negative' question either.

Congratulations on the award by the way

yes they dish out free tickets like theres no tommorrow

Well done to all concerned.
The team are going to be at my son's primary school tomorrow( in Westhoughton) - working with years 5+6 playing tag rugby, aiming towards a tag team tournament at our local high school.
My lad is looking forward to it

Very well done to all concerned.

Well done to everyone involved

Who said it was negative?

look harder its well publicised
so I need no 'excuse' thats what others should have for not knowing what goes on

That the RFL know more about what the Community Dept does speaks volumes about how much some of our own care about aspects of the club apart from on the field matters

Fred without getting into a slanging match with you ,my question has nothing to do with being connected with any club in the town and by the way you are behind times.

I am speaking with quite a bit of knowledge on this subject and the same question has been asked about other awards dished out by the RFL to the RFL.

The question asked by Mr Fittler was a fair and legitimate one actions speak louder than words and all he was asking for is some concrete evidence.

It should not be to difficult to provide.

It does not detract from the award , Mr Fittler as a volunteer in our sport is surely allowed to ask the question as he is giving his time up coaching kids week in week out. And if he does not know what they do THEN surely that creates a problem within the community does it not ?
And for the record Fred I have been the secretary of a local open age side for the last two and a half years and have had no contact what so ever from The Community Department .

Being as you are a well established side and primarily open age , it would be unlikely you would have contact , they mainly work in schools at junior and intermediate levels

Also quite true , although ' closing ' the deal as in converting a one off ' freebie ' attendee into an actual lifelong fan requires a lot more work

The community game covers all ages Steve .

But the community dept at pro RL clubs don't

Not sure what concrete evidence anyone needs, people on here often post that the community dept are active in their kids schools, even Peawapp started a thread about his grandson involved in a summer camp they ran, I often see schools going round the pitch at LSV, and the RFL must feel they are doing something right.

I don't know who Mr Fittler is but if he is a member of LMR coaching staff, then he can either contact me by pm or John Horan/Dave Wardle at his own club and we will try to update him on some of the activities ongoing between the Community department and the amateur clubs.

When the Amateur Forum was established its aims primarily were to improve the working relationship between the pro and junior amateur clubs, something I notified you of in your other capacity, but as secretary of another club I'm sure if you contacted them/us with any requests or suggestions they would be given due consideration.

go get'em glow

Not sure why you are getting so defensive about this - there is no bigger life-long Leigh supporter than myself and I have nothing but respect for our club and as someone involved in the sport I was interested to learn what projects are undertaken in and around our town. Clearly from other posts I am not the only one who would be interested to know.

If the club are doing such good work in the community then why isn't it more widely publicised? Surely this would be a step to increasing support for our club!

How ?