About Us

It’s important never to under-estimate the positive sense of pride and achievement that an active participation in any sport can engender. Irrespective of one’s natural ability and at what level one competes, the real joy of sport is the unrivalled sense of camaraderie and get-up-and-go that it instils in participants of all ages.

With child obesity on the rise, sports fields and safe outdoors environments in steep decline and a depressing lack of opportunities for youngsters to truly immerse themselves in sport, there’s a growing outcry for affordable, professionally run sports programmes like ours to give impressionable young minds that all-important first taste of sport, a fast-paced first introduction that official stats prove time and again to be pivotal in children adopting a more physically active outlook for life.

Our sister operation, Little Kickers, already inspires some 10,000 kids a week (both domestically and abroad) to enjoy a gentle, yet structured introduction to the beautiful game we call footie. However, we’re only too aware that soccer isn’t everyone’s cup of tea and that for some it’s the cut and thrust of the oval ball that generates the biggest buzz, which is uncannily where we come in!.

Level playing field

Life as we know is rarely a level playing field, which is why our tailor-made programme seeks to let every child develop at his or her own pace, by playing alongside other kids of similar ages and abilities. In short, our two two-tiered approach (Junior and Mighty Rugby) provides a gently staggered learning environment which allows every child to quickly find his or her feet.

Junior Rugby

2 years - approx. 3½ years

Our fledgling rugby players are introduced to the basics of the game and begin to develop skills which are built upon as their ability increases.

Using a rugby ball tailored to their size, elements of tag rugby are introduced, including holding onto the ball with two hands whilst running forwards, landing the ball for a try, and looking up whilst running with the ball.

In addition to this, the children are also learning "Early Learning Goals" such as their colours and identifying different body parts that they exercise when playing sport. In essence Little Rugby provides a fun, safe learning environment where your child will be encouraged to move from parent-supported participation, to active, independent interaction.

Mighty Rugby

3½ years - 5th birthday

By this stage most of our budding rugby players will have a basic coordination which enables the coaches to expand on the skills learnt before. Evasive running, always facing fowards towards the opposition, and receiving a pass whilst on the move are just some of the components of the course at this stage.

With the assistance of real "Tag Rugby Belts" the children are also beginning to learn the fundamental rules of Tag Rugby whilst exercising and having fun!

Irrespective of what part sport plays in your child’s future, we honestly believe the capacity to participate in controlled play, to concentrate on instructions and visually assess a game will hold them in good stead for the future.

Parent-friendly, child specific

For some parents the lure of participating can prove too much, whilst for others our classes provide some much needed downtime for chilling, chatting, texting or even immersing oneself in a nice-sized newspaper. Whether your personal preference is mucking in or sitting on the sidelines is fine by us, on the small proviso that whatever path you take it’s the children that always remain centre stage.

Each Little Rugby class comes complete with two coaches to ensure that each week every young rugby disciple receives some all-important one-on-one tuition, which is instrumental in ensuring that even the shyest child soon feels part of our friendly pack.