Warriors Community Team

The Community team is headed up by Tom Ryder, Community & Marketing Manager at Warriors, whose role is to develop and manage Warriors Community involvement. He has developed and maintained the clubs links with key private and public sector organisations such as npower, the Hereford and Worcester Sports Partnership and the Rugby Football Union. He also develops the use of the Sixways venue and Warriors Study Centre and strives to grow the Warriors brand.

Steve Joslin is the Community Rugby Manager at Warriors who manages the team of dedicated staff as they deliver community initiatives across the region. Steve has been a driving force in delierving the work Warriors carry out in the local society. In addition, Steve is a figure head behind the co-ordination and delivery of the Warriors award-winning npower Tag Inclusive Rugby programme to children with physical and learning difficulties.

Simon Lane works as a Community Rugby Officer with the specific remit of delivering a contact rugby programme to secondary schools and clubs with a focus on ensuring an increasing participation and developing school club links maximising the impact of the Warriors programme.

Harry Orgee works as a Community Rugby Officer with particular focus on work with further education and the development of volunteer programmes working alongside Warriors.

Dave Rogers is the Education Programme Co-ordinator at Warriors. Dave's hard work with Warriors has seen the club form an education partnership with Link Telecom, whose generous sponsorship has allowed delivery of many key projects in schools throughout Worcestershire. Successful schemes such as The Warrior Way - that includes Healthy Lifestyles, Learning with the Warriors, Inspire the Warriors, Class Reading Challenges, Reading Champions and a Sports Writing project. For more information on his work click the 'Education' link on the Community section.

Warriors Study Centre and Playing for Success Programme

Glynn Lodge is the Study Centre Manager at Worcester Warriors and works closely with Tom Ryder, Warriors Community Manager. He manages the use of the state of the art Warriors Study Centre and is responsible for the strategic development of the Centre ensuring that the education pillar of activity is at the forefront of the Warriors Community work. Glynn also leads on the design and development of the PfS curriculum as well as planning for the varied day time educational provision.

Matt Warne is the Centre Teacher and fulfils a crucial role in leading the delivery of the PfS programme and developing the ICT aspects of the learning programmes. He supports curriculum planning and delivery of some areas of daytime provision.

Laura Bolon is the Teaching Assistant and supports Matt in the delivery and development of the PfS programme. She is on hand to assist the planning and delivery of daytime provision and supports developments in ICT.

Tracy Appleton performs a vital part-time role in the operations of the Warriors Study Centre ensuring there is strong communication with the Centre's clients and partner schools. Tracy is responsible for client administration, finance and co-ordinating Graduation events and the Centre's library as well as ensuring the Centre office operates smoothly.