BUDE Rugby Club’s future looks that much brighter after they received their RFU accreditation last weekend.

Cornwall Rugby Football Union (CRFU) chairman Denis Preece presented club chairman Paul Cholwill with the award and a sign at Bencoolen Meadow.

Paul said: “Basically the RFU accreditation opens up more doors for funding for us to be able to expand and keep the club growing. We should now be more open to funding from the RFU, Sport England and the CRFU.

“Myself, Charlie Bisby and Helen Newton worked on it for a while, which was filling in forms and scoring ourselves red, yellow and green and from that build a picture of what we need to do as a club.

“Jonny Stephenson, the England RFU Rugby Development officer for Cornwall, helped us along the way and oversaw the project and made sure we ticked all the boxes.”