have written a letter of intent to award sufficient funding grants to install an all-weather pitch in Underhill Park.


Mumbles Rangers, Mumbles Rugby Club together with Mumbles Community Association have applied to the Charity Commission to become a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) to be known as ‘Go Underhill’. Mumbles Community Council have awarded grants to Mumbles Rangers and Mumbles Rugby Club totalling £70,000 over the past eight years. These grants have enabled changing room and clubhouse renovations, consultants reports (outlining the issues causing serious flooding on the park and suggesting methods for resolution) and rugby pitch renovations. It is hoped that the new CIO will be spending an additional considerable sum to improve the playing conditions of the pitches and installing the second phase of drainage.


Mumbles Rangers have become so popular with their aims and objectives 'to make players the best they can be' being the philosophy of its founder Billy John who started the Club in 1950. The club celebrates its 65th continuous year in 2015. Billy was a paraplegic who started the club and ran it from his wheelchair. His 'boys' pushed him to and from home and away games in all weathers with strict instructions from his mother to keep him dry!!! A number of these 'boys' still form an important part of the Vice Presidents Club which itself acts as the 'conscience' of today's club, never losing the values held by Billy.


Although the club has an army of volunteers, coaches and players, its growth in recent years would not have been possible without the professional and personal guidance of Colin Staples and support of the Welsh Football Trust. Without assistance from the Trust our club would struggle to sustain growth and popularity. Mumbles is proud of its association with the Welsh Football Trust.


From L to R Haydn Lewis, Mike Podbielski, Martin Duffy, Ron Mounsey (McDonald’s), Des Criddle, Colin Staples (Welsh Football Trust), Chris Parkin


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