Weekly Newsletter during Lockdown

Weekly Newsletter During Lockdown

The Club maintains a website throughout the year and produces a weekly newsletter throughout the year, normally with less frequent editions during the off-season. The newsletter is sent out by MailChimp and tracking shows that it is viewed by between 290 and 347 people each week, an average of 310 people. A copy also goes out via the ClubForce APP to all current members of the Club.

Last year, the Club has maintained regular newsletters throughout the lockdown period – indeed there were 59 newsletters produced between 1st March 2020 and 28th February 2021. 

This was one of the ways by which the Club reached out to its wider membership and feedback from across the Club has been very positive.

You can view all that year’s newsletters here

Highlights in the Lockdown Year

• Club maintained a clean safety record and adhered to guidelines in full
• Members were kept up-to-date on a weekly basis through Weekly Newsletter
• Website kept up-to-date
• Club meetings held on Zoom:
  – Quarterly Board meetings
  – Fortnightly Operations Group (Exec Directors) meetings
  – Fortnightly Return to Rugby Group meetings
• Club AGM successfully held, with significant online input
• Club Special General Meeting held, with significant online input
• OSCR approved the Rugby Club becoming a charity
• Linlithgow Rugby Memories Group moved to online (Zoom) meetings with average attendance of around 50 people
• Linlithgow Rugby Club Male Voice Choirrecorded songs at Easter and Christmas and published on YouTube
• Both the Rugby Club and its Male Voice Choir opened YouTube channels
• Rugby Club won competition on water savings and received free water saving devices, including new shower heads and water taps for sinks
• Old Shower room completely refurbished during lockdown (deep cleaned, tiled, new outside air vent installed, new water pipework and shower heads, new safety lighting)
• Club Member set up pop-up takeaway business using Club kitchen, with takeaway meal every 2 weeks or so, with around 160 meals per session (Simmer Doon)
• Access granted to training pitches during lockdown to youth soccer and youth athletics
• Remedial work and painting carried out around the Clubhouse
• Deep clean of Clubhouse ahead of each re-opening