Minis Rugby News
Thursday 16th Oct 25
Well done to our two U18 Guildfordian girls players, Charlotte Brookes and Dita Shaw for being selected for this England Rugby positional camp.
The camp will be at Bisham Abbey national sports centre this weekend,
Also included former Guildordian girls player Ruby Winstanley.
Go well girls .
Thursday 16th Oct 25
Guildfordian Rugby hosted a wonderful Primary schools touch event at Stoke Park ,Rugby in the heart of Guildford.
There were players from 9 primary schools attending the event,playing in a number of matches in the winter sun.
Well done Graham Sampson for organising and the coaches from the club for helping.
Thursday 16th Oct 25
This year was the 6th girls festival at Guildfordians with over 40 visiting teams in attendance across the day, around 700 girls competing and lots of trophies up for grabs. The event is the biggest girls rugby event in Surrey and has a strong reputation, something we are very proud of with a number of clubs returning year on year, whilst attracting new teams from further afield as we grow.
...Thursday 2nd Oct 25
On Sunday 28th September, Stoke Park played host to 1250 children between the ages of 6 and 11 and their families, as the Autumn season of rugby festivals kicked off in spectacular style at Guildfordians RFC.
...Thursday 2nd Oct 25
The Annual GUILDFORDIAN GIRLS festival is taking place on October 12th,with around 750 Girls .all playing rugby with their mates.
Please pop along to a whole day of Girls rugby at Guildfordian RFC, in the Heart of Guildford.
Thursday 2nd Oct 25
GIRLS’ RUGBY AT GUILDFORDIANS RFC
...Monday 29th Sep 25
The U18 Guildfordian Girls played in another Surrey cup final at The Stoop ,to finish the 24/25 season in style.
...Monday 29th Sep 25
Huge congratulations to the five U18 Guildfordian Girls for being selected for Surrey, Sussex + Kent PDG.
With a couple more to still be assessed.
The Guildfordian Girls and the club are very proud of you all, enjoy the experience .
Saturday 3rd May 25
Please read the whole article carefully, fully details are in your Club Newsletter.
...Saturday 3rd May 25
The Minis closed the season last Sunday, the Micros and U6’s in the sun at Stoke Park and the U7’s - U11’s at the Effingham & Leatherhead RFC Festival. The Festival was enjoyed by everyone, a real party atmosphere with music playing, BBQ, ice-cream van, amazing weather and even an Eagle to present the medals.
...Thursday 17th Apr 25
Estella and her Scottish teammates enjoyed a 21 v 12 win over England, in the U18’s Six Nations this week at Wellington College.
Estella was playing against her Guildfordian teammate Seren ,who was representing England.
Joe,Estella’s Dad has said,
“ Guildfordians has been a hugely positive and transformational part of Estella's life”
Well done Estella and we are all very proud of you.
Thursday 17th Apr 25
COB + Seren both have received their first caps for England this week ,at Wellington college .
Both Girls have played in matches this week for England and with a final match v France on Saturday.
COB has been with Guildfordians since aged 3 and Seren our 'Jersey Bean ' joined this season.
Well done Girls ,we are very proud of you and well done.
Thursday 17th Apr 25
5 of the amazing U18 Guildfordians Girls enjoyed a final run out ,with the Rachel Burford PDG Squad at Burton on Trent this week.
The squad had a full Guildfordians front row of
Lils,Keira +Iona.
They won 3 and drew 1 match.
Well done
Erin
Fizz
Iona
Keira
Lils
The section are proud of you all.
Thursday 17th Apr 25
The amazing U18’s Guildfordians Girls will be playing in the Surrey Cup final again, for the third year running at The Stoop, which is becoming like a second home for these girls.
...Saturday 29th Mar 25
Friday 21st March and the u11s were invited to send one team to a unique festival, played under the lights at OCs in Esher.
...Friday 14th Mar 25
On Sunday 2 March our Minis festival took place where we welcomed 125 teams, 1200 children and over 2500 people from teams across the South of England as far as Gosport and Worthing. It was great that building on our Autumn festival, we had a few of the teams return who hadn’t been previously. Feedback has been overwhelmingly positive with teams already asking to sign up for our September festival.
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The Minis’ section of Guildfordians Rugby Club is its beating heart.
We start at the age of 3 in Micros and run right through to Under 11’s. We train on Sunday mornings between 10 and 12, the length of the session varies from 1 hour to 2 hours depending on the players age.
A child’s age group is determined by their age at midnight on 31st August so, for example, a child who at midnight on 31st August is aged 7 would enter the Under 8s (U8s).
In Micros things start in a relatively simple way – even getting the children to run in a straight line is an accomplishment! We introduce ball skills and team games, learning to have your tag taken without the need for floods of tears is an important aim. Sometimes this takes rather a long time! Don’t worry! The players are not thrown into full contact rugby.
Throughout all the Minis age groups we try to give the children confidence, while instilling some discipline, but it’s most important to have fun. Children learn best through fun.
We offer all new players 3 free taster sessions so that they can decide if they would like to play rugby.
We provide a safe and enjoyable environment to help develop players. Our focus as coaches is to develop players to be better next week than they were in the previous week, to be part of a team, have fun and enjoy rugby.
The club upholds the RFU core values of Teamwork, Respect, Enjoyment, Discipline and Sportsmanship.Moving on from the Micros, the ‘tag game’ is played at under 7’s and under 8’s. Contact Rugby is not permitted until under 9’s. Further aspects of the full 15 a side game are introduced gradually following the RFUs guidelines.
RFU Age Grade ProgressionGreat highlights of our year are our the festivals, we aim to host 2 Mini festivals a year - one in the Autumn and one in Spring. Our under 7’s to under 11’s play in the festivals against teams from all over the South East, some coming from as far away as Guernsey.
In between the festivals, there will be home training and opportunities for joint training sessions and matches with other local clubs. These sessions give our players a chance to hone their skills and interact with players outside of their club.
We are a very friendly, volunteer run club, with social events throughout the year,
We actively encourage parental participation and most of our coaches simply started off as willing parent helpers.
So, what’s stopping you and your Mini? A warm welcome awaits you all at Guildfordians Rugby Club whatever age your child is.
Training areas and times are at the bottom of this page.
The 2025-26 season starts on
Sunday 7th September come along and Pitch Up for Rugby with the Minis.
We are looking forward to seeing you at Stoke Park.
Simon Shackerley - Minis Chairman and Coachminis.chairman@grfc.co.uk