WRLA (Women’s Rugby League Association) are pleased to announce that they have new sponsors in Yorkshire based company Active Work in a deal that will last for 18 months.
This means Active Workwear will become title sponsors for the rest of the 2017/18 season and the full 2018/19 season commencing this October, the County of Origin game over the next two years, the Easter Challenge & Plate Cup Finals for the next two year, the WRLA Awards Dinner for the next two years.
The sponsorship is immediate and in return Active Workwear will provide hoodies for the playing squads, coaches and managements of Lancashire and Yorkshire Ladies beginning with this year’s WRLA County of Origin game. The County of Origin will be part of a double header which takes place at 2.00pm on Sunday 28th January at the LD Nutrition Stadium, Featherstone the home of Featherstone Rovers RLFC.
WRLA Chair Steve Manning said: “WRLA have been looking for a sponsor and committee man Neil Pascall contacted Mike Johnson the owner of Active Workwear and a sponsorship deal was made between both parties and I welcome and thank Mike for bringing Active Workwear on board with the league. I feel it will be a good fit for both parties and that we will work together over the next eighteen months.
“Active Workwear will be providing hoodies for the playing squads, coaches and managements of Lancashire and Yorkshire Ladies beginning with this year’s WRLA County of Origin game, and it helps to make all those involved in the Origin game feel that they are special being involved with their respective counties”.
Mike Johnson Active Workwear owner: “I was approached to sponsor WRLA for the next eighteen months and was more than happy to do so and will be starting by providing hoodies for the Lancashire and Yorkshire Ladies for their County of Origin game later this month
“I am a great supporter of grassroots amateur rugby league already, at club and county level, and my son also plays this great sport. I am aware in these difficult times how hard it is to obtain sponsorship within the game at this level and I am more than happy to sponsor and support WRLA and the players that play in their various competitions and functions they arrange.”
Active Workwear are a UK based distributor and retailer of head to toe protection of workwear that works. Providing high quality branded clothing and workwear to individuals and companies in the UK, Europe and beyond for many years.
They offer a range of products to suit all trades and every safety requirement; some of those include the Construction Industry, Health & Hospitality, Painters & Decorators. They also stock and source an increasing range of work and safety clothing from the Worlds major brands including Snickers Workwear, Blaklader, Apache and Dewalt.
Report courtesy of WRLA
