Category Archives: Club News

Hoppers 250 Club – January Winners 1st Prize £60 – J Leigh 2nd Prize £30 – P Carroll 3rd Prize £15 – D V Pendlebury 4th Prize £10 – S Hutchins The Monthly Draw was made at the January Lunch Club giving the above members an early new year bonus. All funds raised will continue […]

Members and friends of the club will be saddened to hear of the death of Anne Alden on Tuesday 27th January, peacefully after a long illness which she fought with dignity, aged 70 years. The dearest wife of former club president Malcolm, the wonderful mum of Claire and Julie, an amazing nanna to Luke and […]

This Saturday we’re pleased to be welcoming Affinity Packaging to Lightfoot Green as main match sponsors of the 1st XV game with Sedgley Park. Affinity Packaging have a particularly interesting connection with the 1st XV as owner and director Chris Dew is the father of current 1st XV Head Coach Garth and is a former […]

On Friday night the 2014 Lancashire Sports Awards took place at the Hilton Hotel in Blackpool with 8 awards up for grabs. The club was nominated in the Community Club of the Year category after winning the same award at the Preston Sports Awards last year. John Powell had won the ‘Service to Sport’ award […]

Preston Grasshoppers RFC head to the 2014 Lancashire Sports Awards in Blackpool on Friday night after being nominated for the Community Club of the Year. The nomination comes as a result of the club winning the same award at the Preston Sports Awards last year, hence the awards being called the 2014 Lancashire Sports Awards. The […]

Mini/Junior Sportsman’s Dinner Date: 13 February 2015 Time: 7:00pm Location: Clubhouse ONLY ONE TABLE LEFT  –  CONTACT HUGH DUCKWORTH FOR YOUR TICKETS ASAP   The annual Sportsmans dinner will be held on Friday 13th February this year.  This event is the main fund raising event for the Mini/Junior rugby section. The event also celebrates those […]

Hoppers 250 Club – December Winners 1st Prize £60 – Les Anson 2nd Prize £30 – Mike Forshaw 3rd Prize £15 – Audrey Ashworth 4th Prize £10 – Les Harrison Four 1869 Club Members swept the board as winners of the delayed December Draw which was made in the Dooley Suite after last Saturday’s game […]

Since October 2013 club archivist and historian Mike Forshaw has been working tirelessly in conjunction with a member of the Preston Digital Archive to catalog and as many of the clubs old photographs, press clippings and documents as possible. Items are continually being added to the collection which can be viewed in full at the […]

Preston Grasshoppers RFC has to date helped The Dean Puplett Appeal by raising £2,674.64. The latest addition to the total is money collected by the two boys at the recent ‘Brasshoppers’ event and the collection pots in the Bar areas. Dean’s family thanks everyone who has made donations, the ‘Collectors’ and appreciates all the amounts given at www.justgiving.com/DeanPuplettAppeal.

With 2014 drawing to a close we thought we’d take this opportunity to look back at the year on the website and bring you the most popular stories from the year. 5. Hull Preview (991 views) – 1st September At number 5 is the preview of the opening game of the 2014/15 season which saw […]