Historic Harewood host 1000 young rugby players

The grand country house, the home to the Queen's cousin, the Earl of Harewood, will open its grounds to children from eighty schools from around Yorkshire for a day of rugby as well as a Bungee challenge and inflatables all supplied by West Yorkshire Police as well as meeting Ronnie the Rhino.

Following the success of last years event this massive rugby tournament is being run for a second time by Leeds Rugby Foundation, the charitable trust who run the community activity for Leeds Rhinos and Leeds Carnegie rugby clubs, working with many children across Leeds and Yorkshire.

The event has been organised by Gareth Cook, Rugby Development Officer for the Leeds Rugby Foundation, Cook said, "Harewood House Tag Festival is now a firm fixture in the schools calendars, every school that has entered has been involved with Leeds Rugby Foundation either through Leeds Rhinos and Leeds Carnegie and it is great to see all the hard work culminate into a huge festival before schools finish for Summer. I would like to thank Bob Bowman of West Yorkshire Police along with Cravendale, Subway, Coca Cola, the RFL and the RFU who have all helped to make this day possible, as well as the 100 volunteers from high schools across the county."