Burleigh Travel are delighted to confirm the date for the 2012 Hilversum Mini & Junior Rugby Festival in Holland will be Sunday 8th April 2012. We have sent numerous teams to this festival in previous years and we feel this would be the ideal destination for any mini & junior rugby teams wishing to undertake a rugby tour to Europe in 2012 providing competitive rugby for all sides.

As you can see from the video below the Hilversum Rugby Festival provides good competitive rugby with the fantastic social element touring is all about and we feel this would provide a wonderful rugby tour for any mini or junior rugby team:

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Burleigh Travel is pleased to announce an exciting, new partnership with Super Skills Travel Ltd. All our customers will have the opportunity to go on a holiday that can make your dreams come true.

Founded by Will Greenwood and Austin Healey, Super Skills Travel (SST) promises to deliver a family holiday of a lifetime.

Operating from the Forte Village Resort (fortevillageresort.com), in Sardinia, winner of ‘world’s leading resort’ for the last 13 years SST provides an exclusive opportunity for children aged 5–16 years to receive rugby coaching from some of the world’s greatest rugby legends while enjoying an amazing family holiday.

Over a period of five weeks during this summer, Will and Austin will be joined by Jason Leonard and Jason Robinson and an experienced coaching team to provide the ultimate in rugby training. For further information or to book, please call +44 (0) 208 693 9743, emailinfo@superskillstravel.com or visit superskillstravel.com. Don’t forget to quote SST/Burleigh.

Sandroyd School enjoyed a highly successful cricket tour to South Africa earlier this year. The group enjoyed a fully packed itinerary in Johannesburg, Cape Town and the Aquila Game Reserve with 11 nights accommodation and playing 4 fixtures. Burleigh Travel would like to congratulate the team on their performances playing some highly competitive cricket.

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Burleigh Travel, in conjunction with Bognor Rugby Club, hosted the Bognor Junior Rugby Festival on Sunday 10th April in glorious conditions. This enabled all age groups to play some wonderful, free flowing, running rugby and everyone commented on how much they enjoyed this fantastic youth rugby festival with a number vowing to return to this junior rugby festival in 2012!

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Burleigh Travel are pleased to announce that Devizes RFC U15 are the winners of the best video clip from their tour to the Bournemouth Junior Rugby Festival in April 2011.

Following an entertaining look back at the various clips which were taken throughout our mini and junior rugby festivals in Bognor and Bournemouth the Burleigh Travel judges felt that the following clip from Devizes RFC U15 was the funniest.

As you can see when viewing the video below, they have managed to fit an entire rugby team in a Bedford Van during their rugby tour to the Bournemouth Junior Rugby Festival.

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Bognor Rugby Club in conjunction with Burleigh Travel hosted the Bognor RFC Mini Rugby Festival on Saturday 9th April. Over 30 teams participated in this mini rugby festival on a gloriously sunny day and some brilliant, competitive rugby was played at all age groups throughout the day.

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Burleigh Travel would like to wish Mike Tindall every success in his new role as England captain during their 2011 Six Nations campaign. Burleigh Travel have been proud to sponsor Mike at Gloucester Rugby for several seasons and hope his successful skills captaining at club level transfer to his new role with England.

Mike has been a wonderful ambassador for the game as demonstrated in the picture below when he attended a fundraising dinner at the Hotel du Vin in aid of the Tamara Johnson Fund. More details of this event can be found here.

Burleigh Travel is currently sponsoring Gloucester Rugby’s Luke Narraway during the 2010/11 season. Luke is currently involved in the England Saxons squad and, following his fantastic performance last week against Italy ‘A’, will once again be representing the Saxons in their game against Ireland ‘A’ in Belfast.

Both Mike and Luke are fantastic ambassadors for the game and Burleigh Travel wishes both players success this weekend in their respective roles.

Burleigh Travel arranges tailor made sports tours so please contact us for further information.

Liverpool University Cricket Club have recently returned from their highly enjoyable and successful cricket tour to Australia. This cricket tour was a 19 day 4 fixture tour based in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne where they even managed to watch England retain The Ashes! Burleigh Travel would like to offer their congratulations to the team on their performances on the field and clearly their fantastic support at The MCG which no doubt helped the England Cricket team in winning the test match!

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Burleigh Travel are pleased to invite your Rugby Club to participate in the Hove 15-a-side Social Senior Rugby Festival, to be played on the 28th & 29th May 2011.

For further information on this exciting rugby festival and to celebrate the end of a long, hard and hopefully successful season on the rugby field, please contact Burleigh Travel by visiting our online enquiry form to secure your tournment place and to create an affordable and memorable rugby tour for your club.



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Pate’s Grammar School RFC U13 & U14 enjoyed a highly successful rugby tour to Cork in Ireland during the October half term and Burleigh Travel would like to congratulate them on remaining unbeaten on their tour playing some fantastic rugby in what were some difficult conditions.

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