Month: December 2022

As the new year dawns upon us,
and we drop out 22 with fun.
Take some time to stop and to reflect
on just how far we’ve come. 

As a rugby club of many
partners, players, supporters and fans,
bonding through purpose and laughter
always cheering in the stand. 

We’ve had a season of mixed fortune.
Emotions up and down,
but we’ve built a rugby fortress
at the Marine Travel Ground. 

Amber and black, let’s look ahead,
reset and keep moving on.
Whatever part you have to play,
together we are strong. 

We’ll rise up, we’ll take the lead,
we’ll be the club other teams fear.
We’ll score the tries, we’ll win the game,
23 will be our year. 

For those no longer with us,
your spirit forever at our games.
The tales, the laughs, the tears the jokes,
the clubhouse echoing your names. 

A tenant that we strive towards
at our growing rugby hub.
Whether on the field or off the field
we will forever be One Club. 

To all who travelled with us,
to all who turned up to cheer.
Raise a glass and drink a toast
to a prosperous new year. 

View some of this season’s highlights

Thank you to Phillipa Hilton and ken Matcham for the amazing photographs you have taken.

Four matches cancelled this weekend due to frozen pitches:

Pilgrims V Dover Sharks – Home

3rds V Tunbridge Wells 2nds – Home

Ashford Barbarians V Deacons – Away

Hammersmith & Fulham Ladies V Canterbury Women – Away

We do have a match you can get behind though Tonbridge Juddians V 1st XV

We have a supporters coach leaving from the Marine Travel Ground at 12.00 sharp. There are still some seats left. Come and join the cheering section!

Cost is £15 per person, which includes a LIMITED EDITION BOBBLE HAT, the wearing of which is compulsory!

Strictly on a first-come, first-served basis, please email your name, and the number of spaces required, to Kirsty, our Club & Events Manager at:kirsty@cantrugby.co.uk.

Thanks to the generosity of club members and supporters a Canterbury charity has been given a wonderful Christmas present. The chair of Canterbury Food Bank went to our pre-match lunch on December 10th expecting to pick up a cheque for £500. By the time the meal was over the amount had risen to £6000. A charity auction raised £1500 and that was boosted by individual donations which included two single gifts of £1000.

At the lunch, attended by over 200 club supporters, the Food Bank’s Martin Ward said: “I was amazed at the generosity of these big-hearted people living in the local community.
“We were delighted with the £500 donation – I really didn’t expect to leave with twelve times that amount.

“The Cost of Living Crisis has brought extraordinary new pressures on the people we help. But with donations like this, we will get through it together and make sure no one goes without food.”

The charity, which serves Canterbury, Whitstable, Herne Bay, and surrounding villages, provided enough food in the past year to make 96,450 meals for people in the district suffering financial difficulty.

Club Chairman Giles Hilton said: “As a club, we like to feel that we are a big part of the local community of Canterbury. It was important that in these difficult times we support in as many ways as we can. Canterbury Food Bank is just a superb part of the same community and we are delighted to have been able to support on this occasion.“