Following the success and growth of Kingswood Rugby Football Club’s (KRFC) walking rugby section launched in May 2017, the Walking Rugby Section ran its first festival/tournament in May 2018.
We rebranded to Kingswood Titans in 2022 to align with the other sections in Kingswood RFC (Kingswood Spartans, Knights & Athenas). We are now looking at running our sixth successful Walking Rugby Festival in July 2024. Walking rugby participation has continued to grow in popularity not just throughout the Southwest but across the whole of the United Kingdom and we believe this could be the largest Walking Rugby Festival in the World!!
We currently have over 40 teams registered to play; each team is made up of 10 players so we are excited to be hosting over 400 players along with their supporters at Kingswood RFC on Saturday 13th July 2024.
This is going to be an amazing day in the 70th anniversary year of the Club with food stalls providing refreshments throughout the day and a live band playing in the evening not forgetting our Clubhouse bar where refreshments can be purchased.
Teams are coming from all over the UK from Dover in the East, Crediton in the West, Birmingham in the North, and teams from Wales.
Kingswood Titans continues to be proactive by participating in other walking rugby festivals and tournaments held across the South of England and the Midlands. We also continue to develop good relationships with many clubs in South Wales, playing by invitation at some of their Welsh Rugby Union sponsored events. We have established strong links with local clubs in the local area including Trowbridge RFC, Chippenham RFC, Broad Plain Pioneers RFC and North Bristol RFC, sharing in mixed training sessions.
The Walking Rugby Festival circuit for 2024 is now in full-swing and Kingswood Titans have already sent teams to play at Salisbury, Richmond, Crediton, Crickhowell, Burgess Hill, Neath & Guildfordians. Later in the summer we will be attending more festivals throughout England and Wales.
Kingswood Titans currently has a membership of 50 (plus) playing members with a strong training group of 30 or more participating at their regular Wednesday evening sessions and smaller but no less enthusiastic group attending Thursday morning sessions.