Club News

A new Charity Team has been formed to take the lead on developing charitable partnerships for Heriot’s Rugby Club. The initiative is the brainchild of Vice President Mel McCallum, focusing on the playing group at Heriot’s Rugby Club driving a long-term partnership with a local charity. Volunteers for the group were encouraged to come forward […]

The new Modern Standard Coffee café has enjoyed a successful opening, continuing to serve up hot drinks in the cold weather, while navigating the challenges of COVID-19. The success for Modern Standard Coffee has extended to CEO Lynsey Harley and her staff being baristas to Scotland rugby players preparing for the Six Nations. The Blues

We were deeply saddened to hear that well known former Heriot’s Rugby Club player Steve Dougherty passed away last week, aged 59 years, after a brave fight against cancer. Steve played for the club for many years throughout the 1980’s and into the early 90’s. Steve, a fast and elusive centre featured regularly for the

Doddie Aid(www.doddieaid.com) is an exercise event running through January, until Feb 6th and the Calcutta Cup KO, in support of Doddie’s MN5D Foundation and MND research. So far we have 23,000 people taking part, 2 weeks into the challenge, and have raised over £500,000.  The event is split into 5 geographical teams based on the

It is a sobering thought that there are fewer of us now than at the start of the year. It has been a year the like of which we have never experienced, well apart from those that were around in 1918/19.  Our Joe Wicks (Jordan) is doing his bit to keep our players conditioned and engaged, and

Two Heriot’s Blues Men players have been selected for the Scotland U20 squad with other members of the team forming part of the recent FOSROC Regional Academy intake. Finn McIlwraith and Duncan Hood both received a call up to the 36 player Scotland U20 squad, attending the first training camp earlier this month. Duncan has

Since November Heriot’s Rugby Club centre Cameron Hutchison has been training with Edinburgh Rugby. Cameron, a former Scotland U18 and U19 captain and U20 player, has been acting as emergency cover for the Edinburgh Rugby backline and was the 24th man for the team against Ulster on November 30th. The George Heriot’s School alumni was a standout player for Heriot’s

Golden Acre Foods, the main sponsor for Heriot’s Blues Women is proud to be supporting the newest Edinburgh-based women’s team in Scotland for a second season. Founded in Glasgow about 20 years ago, the company is a distributor of food and drink products to shops, schools and caterers across the United Kingdom. Golden Acre Foods

On Sunday, Broughton Women player Ruth Morgan ran 18 miles around each of the seven Edinburgh rugby clubs that have a women’s team. Joined by teammates and players from other teams for the run, including Heriot’s Blues Women to and from Goldenacre, Ruth set herself the challenge to raise awareness for women’s rugby. Team that took part