It was glorious sunshine, warm, and dry at the CIYMS Mini rugby festival on 26th 7 27th March 2011. The CI mini rugby players promise brought a ray of sunshine to the pitches and beyond when they run out wearing bright yellow socks to mark their support for THE NORTHERN IRELAND CANCER FUND FOR CHILDREN.
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Well over 1000 mini rugby players and spectators attended the two-day mini rugby festival, which took place at the Belmont Grounds in East Belfast. Other mini rugby clubs playing in the Festival were Ards, Bangor, Ballyclare, Ballymena, Cooke, Donaghadee and Instonians.
The CIYMS FESTIVAL OF MINI RUGBY is in its third year and it’s become a tradition that CIYMS take the opportunity to fundraise at the event for a different charity every year and the host players show their support on the pitch by swapping their blue club socks for the charity’s colour.
this year each young rugby player came to the festival with a rugby sock full of “brown money” to boost the funds collected over the weekend.
Dawn Weir, Community Fundraiser with the Northern Ireland Cancer Fund for Children, commented,
“We are delighted that CIYMS Festival of Mini Rugby has chosen to support the Northern Ireland Cancer Fund for Children and look forward to this fantastic event. Every week in Northern Ireland, another three children or young people will be diagnosed with cancer. It is thanks to the generosity and support of local communities and clubs like CIMYS that the NICFC is able to meet the needs of hundreds of families coming to terms with a childhood cancer diagnosis by providing practical, emotional, social and financial support at a time when it is most needed.”
