Global rugby family pledges record-breaking £2m to ChildFund Pass It Back initiative • Donations will give over 25,000 disadvantaged children in Asia the opportunity to transform their lives through rugby • Funds raised from ticket purchasers has increased by over 50 per cent from RWC 2015 • ...
Pass It Back
Rugby World Cup 2019 Mascots Ren-G call on rugby fans to ‘pass it back’ and help disadvantaged children in Asia
With 101 days to go until the 2019 Rugby World Cup in Japan, World Rugby and ChildFund are thrilled to announce that the world’s most famous and recognisable shishi – Ren-G – are lending their support as Ambassadors to ChildFund Pass It Back, a key component of Rugby World Cup 2019’s Impact Beyond ...
World Rugby marks 200 days to Rugby World Cup 2019 with record breaking donations to ChildFund Pass it Back programme
Marking 200 days to go until Rugby World Cup 2019, World Rugby and ChildFund, the principal charity partner for Rugby World Cup, have confirmed that a record GBP £1.5 million has been pledged to ChildFund Pass It Back, strongly showcasing rugby’s values. In an incredible show of solidarity and ...
Women Win launch the Made to Play Fund
Are you a young woman, or know a young woman, who is empowering girls through sport? Women Win is excited to be partnering with supermodel Adwoa Aboah, Gurls Talk and Nike to launch the Women Win Made to Play Fund, which is aimed at getting and keeping girls physically active. The fund will ...
World Cup ticket sales helping girls be girls in Laos and Vietnam
In countries where it is common for girls to walk eight kilometres to school or work before facing the prospect of early marriage, there is no notion of sport as a cultural norm. For many girls and boys in Laos, a mountainous, landlocked country in south-east Asia, the norms of childhood as ...
Asia Rugby’s Annual Growing The Game Conference in Fukuoka
Delegates Introduced to Latest Tools at Asia Rugby's Annual Growing The Game Conference in Fukuoka Forty delegates from 22 countries plus representatives from the ChildFund Australia Pass It Back programme in Vietnam are this weekend braving typhoon Chaba in Fukuoka, Japan to attend Asia Rugby’s ...
RWC 2019 tickets back on sale as general public application period opens
Rugby World Cup 2019 Tickets are back on sale in Japan after the global window opened today for general public ticket applications. General ticket sales ballot application phase opens from 19 September-12 November Follows unprecedented demand for Rugby World Cup 2019 tickets during initial ...
World Rugby and ChildFund launch transformational partnership for RWC 2019
ChildFund Pass It Back partnership aims to transform the lives of disadvantaged children in Asia Fans can opt-in to donate to the programme when purchasing tickets from 19 September Partnership forms key element of Rugby World Cup 2019 Impact Beyond legacy programme Rugby World Cup 2019 in ...
Rugby players from Laos, Vietnam, Philippines and Japan meet for international tag rugby competition at RKU
Young rugby coaches and players from Laos, Vietnam and Philippines will be visiting Japan on 27 June-2 July to take part in the RKU ChildFund Pass It Back Cup. Hosted in Ryugasaki, Ibaraki by Asia Rugby and Ryutsu Keizai University, this is one of many lead-up events to the Rugby World Cup 2019 ...
Asia Rugby promotes Child Safeguarding in Sport with Safeguarding Working Group
Asia Rugby’s Safeguarding Working Group was launched in 2018 to provide advice and support to its member unions on best practice child safeguarding, in-line with UNICEF’s International Safeguards for Children in Sport. The Safeguarding Working Group sits under Asia Rugby’s Player Welfare & ...