Category Archives: Club News

HopFest, our beer festival, returns for 2016 across the weekend of the 15th-17th July. Following on from last years hugely successful beer festival, HopFest 2016 looks set to be bigger and better. This year we have launched a stand alone website to advertise the event which is crammed full of information about the festival including […]

Saturday 7th May saw the end of season Player’s Dinner take place at Lightfoot Green with 8 teams in attendance. Below is the list of winners for each team as well as the clubman and team of the year award. For a gallery of the award winners please follow the link below. https://www.facebook.com/PrestonGrasshoppers/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1104553076283878 1st XV […]

Surrey and Lancashire go head to head at Twickenham Stoop in the final of the Women’s County Championship this Sunday, 29 May with both teams defending unbeaten records. The final at Twickenham Stoop will mark the culmination of the inaugural cup competition in which 16 counties from across the country took part. We’re delighted that […]

Preston Grasshoppers is pleased to announce the signing of 4 players to boost the squad for next seasons campaign. We are delighted to announce that Chris Roddy, an experienced 2nd row, joins from Stourbridge, Back Rower Sam Wallbank returns from Vale of Lune, Phil Mills returns from a season up the road at Fylde and […]

Following the two recent club meetings, the plans for the new Artificial Grass Pitch (AGP) funded by the RFU have been progressing on a number of fronts. The club’s proposal to lease the first team pitch to the RFU for a period of 30 years to enable them to construct a 3G pitch was overwhelmingly […]

Next Thursday, 26th May, sees Preston Grasshoppers RFC take rugby back into the community again with the return of O2 Touch Rugby to Moor Park. The evening will start at 7pm prompt so we would ask that you get their slightly earlier. This is the 5th consecutive year that the club has run touch rugby […]

Preston Grasshoppers Women’s Team are climbing Snowdon on Saturday to raise money for Bowel Cancer UK in support of their teammate Sally who was diagnosed with the disease last year. If you can, please dig deep and help the team raise as much money as possible. You can donate by clicking on the link below. https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/Preston-Grasshoppers-Women-s-Rugby-Team

This Saturday, 7th May, sees both the 2nd and 3rd XV’s in Cup Final action and the club will be putting on a supporters coach to both venues. The 3rd XV take on Wilmslow 2 in the The Lighting and Building Services Jug Final at Rossendale with kick off scheduled for 3.30pm. At the same time the 2nd […]

12 intrepid cyclists from Preston Grasshoppers, aptly named Team Faffalot, will be cycling the Reivers Way to raise funds for local charity, SPACE. The Reivers Route opened in 1998 and is 173 miles long and the riders from Team Faffalot will be embarking from Hoppers on 2nd June. They will be riding through some of […]

We’re delighted to be welcoming Conlon Construction to Lightfoot Green on Saturday as main match sponsors for the 1st XV game with Chester. Ahead of the game we caught up with Chairman Michael Conlon to ask him a few questions about the business and to get his thoughts ahead of the game. Who are Conlon […]