Rugby Union Winter Survival Fund

Raider, these are only the clubs that got the maximum of £50, many other clubs would have also received between £0 - £49k who applied

That information was released to certain RFU Staff and some Council Members so read in to that what you will.

I understand from our Finance man that to qualify for a grant you had to prove that you would effectively go bust over the summer months (and presumably then unable to begin the 21/22 season in September) thus throwing the whole league structure into turmoil. I am sure there are some bona fide cases amongst that list of 90 but equally, as others have pointed out, there are many who have always been regarded as affluent with big playing budgets and in my opinion highly unlikely to go bust in the next few months although I am clearly not "privy" to their current financial positions. Just seems very odd! 

Having personally completed the grant application form for my Club I don’t recognise the comments made by ThatBloke’s Finance person. One anomaly arose which was that the Form couldn’t cope with bank accounts which were in overdraft! I did point out to the RFU, and they agreed, that offering a Survival Fund 10 months after we had shut down seemed to ignore all the work clubs had already done to ensure they continued through to the summer. I haven’t yet heard how much we will get, if anything, but the decisions we have already made and the other grants and donations we have received will ensure we are ready to go for next season. The Winter Survival grant, though, will enable us to do a lot of the work we have deferred and which can’t be done by our superb volunteers. 

The important thing is that those Clubs who have received grants will be able to play, to host mini, junior and women’s rugby and to give us all somewhere to moan at each other over a pint!

Monkey Boy wrote: Halliford wrote: The important thing is that those Clubs who have received grants will be able to play, to host mini, junior and women’s rugby and to give us all somewhere to moan at each other over a pint! And pay lots of lads next season

Halliford wrote: Monkey Boy wrote: Halliford wrote: The important thing is that those Clubs who have received grants will be able to play, to host mini, junior and women’s rugby and to give us all somewhere to moan at each other over a pint! And pay lots of lads next season Definitely not allowed!

Absolutely outrageous that certain clubs have been given free money but will then return to their hand to mouths existence because they pay most of their income in over inflated wages.

Edited by Hopping Mad - 29 Mar 2021 at 20:40

Hopping Mad wrote: Absolutely outrageous that certain clubs have been given free money but will then return to their hand to mouths existence because they pay most of their income in over inflated wages. That the fund doesn’t stipulate a pay back if you pay players (irrespective that these funds are not directly used to pay them - although whose checking?) is itself another example of the ludicrous protect at all costs notion of paying monies that clubs can’t afford. Two clubs on that list still throwing money at players yet pleading poverty. Unbelievable doesn’t even cover it.