Celtic Crusaders tag rugby festival
Celtic Crusaders in conjunction with Safer Bridgend and South Wales Police organised a tag festival on Friday 15th August at Porthcawl RFC from 6 till 9pm for children from around Bridgend aged between 10 and 16 years as part of operation Firefly.
Around 40 children and 12 community police officers were kitted up and played tag rugby league.
All the children who took part were given complimentary tickets to the Celtic Crusaders v Salford City Reds game at the Brewery Field on Saturday 23rd August where many saw their first professional game of rugby league.
Celtic Crusaders’ Community Development Officer, Matthew Pritchard said: “South Wales Police and Safer Bridgend have been planning many activities throughout the summer and it’s great that the kids have had the opportunity to have a go at different sports.
“It’s brilliant to be able to provide these children the access and opportunity to play rugby league and I enjoyed the fun tag rugby league festival and seeing them at the Crusader game on 23rd August.”
Over the past three Fridays Matthew Pritchard has been visiting Nant-y-moel Youth Club to run open training sessions in preparation for the event, while last Wednesday, Crusaders and Welsh international Jordan James took a session in Lawrence Park, Pontycymmer.
“The children have thoroughly enjoyed the sessions,” Pritchard added, “And it’s great to have Jordan working with them.”
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