
Social enterprise initiative awarded Heritage funding to raise the profile of women in Rugby
A Huddersfield social enterprise initiative, led by Julia Lee, one of the first women to referee men’s Rugby League in the 1980s, has been awarded £89,825 by the National Lottery Heritage Fund for a project which will uncover, document and celebrate the history of women in Rugby League. Julia, who is originally from Hull, applied for funding for ‘Life with the Lionesses’, a project which aims to educate young women and girls across the north of England about the women role models who pioneered
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