Although the club has a Senior rugby team which plays at National Two (North) - level four in the National Leagues - Tynedale Rugby Football Club is very much regarded as a Community club.

The club makes a significant contribution to the local community, not just in sport, but through the numerous other non-sporting activities which use the clubhouse or grounds at Tynedale Park, or benefit from money raised by bodies using those facilities.

To help to ensure the growth and development of rugby the club helps to finance the employment of a Community Rugby Coach who, with additional coaching support, works in 39 schools in this area – 3 High Schools, 11 Middle Schools and 25 First Schools. They have structured coaching programmes, they work with youngsters with learning and physical difficulties and also disadvantaged groups, and they hold rugby Festivals and extended evening coaching sessions and workshops at the club on a regular basis.

The Club's Mini-Junior section provides coaching and matches at Tynedale Park for 382 boys and 65 girls, aged between 7 and 15 years of age last season, using 70 volunteer coaches and helpers from the Tynedale district. The players are educated at 58 schools in the area.

For over 15’s the club has four adult teams, a junior boys (Colts) team and two teams for girls.

The Club also has an adult ladies touch-rugby team who compete in a floodlit winter league and train every week whilst organised family-friendly touch rugby is provided on a Monday evening where males and females of all ages are able to compete togther in a safe, controlled environment.

Corbridge Junior Football Club, who have used our pitches and facilities for many years, run 14 teams from under-8’s to under-17’s and have 30 local coaches to look after 270 youngsters (240 boys and 30 girls).

Corbridge Tennis Club have developed their club for adults and children here, and lease part of the rugby club grounds for that purpose.

Apart from sports the club also hosts Car Shows and Caravan Rallies, a Steam and Traction Rally, a Music Festival, a Beer and Cider Festival and offers the use of the grounds to the local Playgroup – so a wide range of interests and ages benefit from the club’s support.

Most of these events raise substantial amounts of money for local charities, like the Charlotte Straker Home in Corbridge, Hexham Priory School, Tynedale Talking Newspaper, Tynedale Hospice at Home and our own Stay Strong Stu project, as well as national charities like Help the Heroes, McMillan Nurses, Epilepsy Action, Chin-up a respite home for children, and Minerva, (which provides training and opportunities for people with disabilities), North Air Ambulance, Children’s Cancer Research, Marie Curie Cancer Care, Percy Hedley Special School, Royal British Legion, Lifespan and others.

As a Community Club we believe we provide enormous enjoyment for local people, as well as providing much needed financial help for the wider community, whom, of course, we always rely on for support.

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