[citation needed] Charlie Bray is the youth league representative on the Community Board.
[1] Both males and females can play youth and junior rugby league, in fact from under-7 up to the under-11 teams are of mixed gender.
It is designed to provide children with a safe environment, a firm knowledge of the laws of rugby league and a chance to practice the skills such as tackling, passing and common defensive and attacking tactics.
English Schools Rugby League was formed in 1967 following talks between the counties of Lancashire and Yorkshire.
It was formed to enable the organising and playing of International games, to act as one body for the disbursement of Grant Aid received from the RFL and to act as an organising body to spread the game and to be a forum for committed and expert opinion.
In the 2005/6 academic year over 1,200 teams and 20,000 players competed in the Champion Schools tournament, making it the largest rugby league competition in the world.