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                                                  TOWA Committee


                                                  Executive Officers


                                                  Column

                                                  Mike Callaghan

                                                  President


                                                       01249 713368 

                                                  Pete Dyer

                                                  Chairman


                                                       01934 823462

                                                       External link opens in new tab or windowpete@dyermail.co.uk 

                                                  David Kitchener

                                                  Vice Chairman


                                                       01234 378825

                                                       External link opens in new tab or windowKitchenerdavid56@gmail.com

                                                  Column

                                                  Mick Copper

                                                  Honorary General Secretary


                                                       01933 622639 
                                                       External link opens in new tab or windowmick.copper@tiscali.co.uk 

                                                  Adele Hamer

                                                  Treasurer


                                                       01422 823397 

                                                       adele.hamer@hotmail.com

                                                  Gavin Corden

                                                  Officials and Records Secretary


                                                      07791 807875

                                                       External link opens in new tab or windowgavin.corden@btinternet.com        


                                                  Non Executive Officers

                                                  Press Officer
                                                  Alan Knott
                                                  Tel: 07976 591222
                                                  email: alan_p_knott@hotmail.com     

                                                  Schools and Youth Organisations Liaison Officer
                                                  Ian Grant
                                                  Tel: 01933 625040

                                                  Child Protection Officer
                                                  Martin Mulcahy
                                                  Tel: 01279 410140

                                                  England Team Managers
                                                  Senior Manager - Stafford Chipperfield
                                                  Under 23 Manager (Men) - Dave Knott
                                                  Under 23 Manager (Ladies) - David Kitchener
                                                  Junior Manager - Joe Birch

                                                  Championships Secretary
                                                  Mick Grimston
                                                  Tel: 01205 369753             
                                                  email: External link opens in new tab or windowmickgrimston@gmail.com

                                                  Doping Control Officer
                                                  David Kitchener


                                                  Area Representatives


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                                                  The Tug of War Association is split into 10 areas, each of which have two representatives who sit on the TOWA General Committee. These are your local contacts who can assist you with any events or training which you may be organising, or they can air any views and concerns of members at TOWA General Committee.

                                                  We also have a representatives for HM Forces and the National Federation of Young Farmers Clubs on the General Committee as tug of war is a big part of the sporting calendar within the Forces and Young Farmers.

                                                  Our area representatives are as follows:


                                                  Area 1 - Yorkshire, Derbyshire and Humberside:


                                                  Rachel Lewis
                                                  Tel: 07515 760932

                                                  e-mail: rachellewis25@hotmail.co.uk


                                                  Alex Birch
                                                  Tel: 07595 618300


                                                  Area 2 - Staffordshire, Shropshire, Hereford & Worcester, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Northamptonshire, Warwickshire, and West Midlands


                                                  Dave Knott
                                                  Tel
                                                  : 01538 385752
                                                  Mob: 07779 852610
                                                  e-mail: External link opens in new tab or windowbigknotty720@gmail.com

                                                  Gavin Corden
                                                  Tel: 07791 807875
                                                  email: External link opens in new tab or windowgavin.corden@btinternet.com     

                                                  Area Secretary:
                                                  Roger Beardsmore
                                                  Tel: 07949 788364                        
                                                  email: tugger68@outlook.com


                                                  Area No 3 - Gloucestershire, Somerset, Oxfordshire, Bristol and Avon


                                                  Peter Dyer
                                                  Tel: 01934 823462
                                                  email: External link opens in new tab or windowpete@dyermail.co.uk

                                                  Martin Collins
                                                  email: martinleecollins@hotmail.co.uk

                                                  Area secretary:
                                                  Wendy Dyer
                                                  Tel: 01934 823462 
                                                  email: wendy@dyermail.co.uk


                                                  Area No 4 - Hampshire, Dorset and Wiltshire


                                                  John Gracie
                                                  Tel:
                                                  07736 675640
                                                  email:
                                                  External link opens in new tab or windowjohn@gracie.co.uk


                                                  Gaz Wyatt
                                                  Tel:
                                                  07867 912400


                                                  Area No 5 - Essex, Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire and Bedfordshire


                                                  Mick Grimston
                                                  Tel: 01205 369753             
                                                  email: External link opens in new tab or windowmickgrimston@gmail.com

                                                  Dave Kitchener
                                                  Tel: 01234 378825
                                                  email: Kitchenerdavid56@gmail.com


                                                  Area No 6 - Surrey, Kent and Sussex


                                                  Alan Ludkin
                                                  Tel: 01304 617660                  
                                                  email: External link opens in new tab or windowalan.ludkin@hotmail.co.uk

                                                  Mick Hutchison
                                                  Tel: 07850 382619
                                                  email: External link opens in new tab or windowmikehutch59@hotmail.com

                                                  Area secretary:
                                                  Peter Tuckwell
                                                  Tel: 0208 9791816
                                                  email: External link opens in new tab or windowpeter.tuckwell@btinternet.com


                                                  Area No 7 - Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Hertfordshire and Middlesex


                                                  Peter Craft
                                                  Tel: 01494 783057
                                                  email: p.craft@sky.com


                                                  Brian Penn

                                                  Tel: 01276 38190


                                                  Area No 8 - Devon and Cornwall


                                                  Simon Wallace
                                                  Tel: 07476 220180

                                                  John Neal MBE
                                                  Tel: 01752 480689
                                                  Mob: 07710 361472

                                                  Area No 9 - Cumbria, Northumberland, Durham, Cleveland, Tyne and Wear


                                                  Joe Birch
                                                  Tel: 01228 658595
                                                  email: External link opens in new tab or windowjoebirch@icloud.com

                                                  Holly Griffiths

                                                  Tel: 07470 438835

                                                  email: snowboard007@icloud.com


                                                  Area No 10 - Cheshire, Lancashire, Greater Manchester and Merseyside


                                                  Alan Knott
                                                  Tel: 07976 591222
                                                  E-mail: External link opens in new tab or windowalan_p_knott@hotmail.com 


                                                  HM Forces


                                                  Lt. Col. Aled Evans

                                                  Tel: 07797 418683


                                                  National Federation of Young Farmers


                                                  Dave Hamer
                                                  Tel: 07817 681286


                                                  What we do


                                                  TOWA Correspondence Address:

                                                  Mick Copper

                                                  TOWA Secretary

                                                  11 Holmfield Drive, Raunds, Northamptonshire, England

                                                  NN9 6PB

                                                  Services


                                                  Telephone the Secretary:

                                                  01933 622639

                                                  Feedback

                                                  E-mail the Secretary:

                                                  mick.copper@tiscali.co.uk

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