Welcome to the TRT

Building Futures and Leaving a Legacy

TRT has returned many times to the countries and schools we originally engaged with because leaving a legacy and sustaining our work is pivotal to our mission. We are delighted that we have been able to open a dedicated office with two full time and two part time staff in Uganda. They manage a pool of part time volunteers and have already developed, planned and run tag rugby festivals without the input of the UK team. The more we can invest in teams like theirs the greater the impact of our work.At the same time the work of TRT has supported the formation of two new rugby clubs in Uganda, Jinja Nile Rugby Club and Mbale Elephants Rugby Club.

In India our first participants came from the Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS), a charitable institute for 10,000 tribal children. Such has been the take-up of tag rugby in the school and surrounding areas that an under 14 team from KISS was chosen to represent India in an international tournament in the UK-they won! More recently they hosted India’s first U-16 tournament – they have now won the Tournament three years on the trot ! Given that none of the players had even heard of tag rugby in 2006 this is an amazing accomplishment. We don’t take the praise for this, we simply smile at the results and reflect upon what a wonderful game we have brought to these youngsters.

In our short existence we have coached and developed tens of thousands of kids. But what is more important is that these kids have had their eyes opened to what is possible when people work as teams, communicate openly and break down psychological barriers.

That’s what keeps us going and we would love to have you join us on our journey.