Charity needs your vote

ROCHDALE Hornets’ Sporting Foundation, a charity set up with the goal of getting more people playing rugby league more often, is calling for the support of the local community to help win funding as part of the Aviva Community Fund 2017.

If successful in their quest for £24,000 funding, they will foster the growth and development of four new rugby community sessions across the four townships of Rochdale.

This is all reliant on support, and you can pledge up to 10 votes towards our cause at our Aviva page at avivacommunityfund. co.uk/voting/project/ view/17-3296.

It will help five schools in each borough receive 10 weeks of after school rugby league coaching, with all school children being actively signposted to their new Township team of either Pennine, Rochdale, Middleton or Heywood.

Those Township teams will then play weekly all school year and enjoy mini festivals against each other, which in turn will achieve our goal of increasing the participation level and success of youngsters in the sport.

It will also create a pathway for the children involved to join Amateur sides such as Rochdale Mayfield, Rochdale Cobras and Littleborough, before aiming to form new rugby league teams in Middleton and Heywood by 2018/19.

All of this can be achieved with your support and your votes, and the Foundation’s manager Steve Kerr has issued a rallying cry for the local and wider community to back the project.

“The Origin Series we have planned will help kids at 20 schools across the local area access rugby league sessions,” he said.

“In total we will deliver over 500 hours of rugby to a target audience of over 600 children, and with the funding we have applied for that will be made possible.”