TwentyFour IT has reinforced its commitment to Doncaster Knights, local rugby and the local community with renewal of their training and leisure wear sponsorships, which also includes their Executive Box, Player Sponsorship and Advertising Boards.
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TwentyFour IT Services have been long standing and highly valued sponsors of Doncaster Knights and have hosted more than 80 businesses from across the local community in their Executive Box over the past few perfectly mixing growing business relationships and the pleasure of watching our Knights on the field. The sponsorship of the training kit provides vital support for the club and regularly showcases TwentyFour IT across our extensive social media reach on multiple platforms.
Director Mike Smith and Chief Technology Officer, Tony Houlihan are regular visitors to Castle Park. Both passionate followers of rugby, Tony said “Rugby is more than just a sport, it’s a community, a way of life and a reflection of the values we hold dear, resilience, teamwork, family and dedication. These same principles guide everything we do as a business. Supporting the Knights is our way of giving back to the local community that has stood by us for so many years”.
Tracey Owen, Head of Commercial at Doncaster Knights said, “We are absolutely delighted that TwentyFour are continuing with their sponsorship of the Knights. Their support is of huge value to us and their introduction of new guests at every home game provides us with more opportunities to showcase our ground, facilities, hospitality and the entertaining game of rugby union. With match ball sponsorship, and sponsorship of our networking lunches, their support has been invaluable to the club.
We are delighted that TwentyFour IT has also held events at Castle Park over the past 12 months from birthday parties to networking events and even conferences on AI.”
TwentyFour’s sponsorship and celebration of local business extends beyond the club, were recently they were the Headline Sponsor for the 2025 Doncaster Business Awards, celebrating the achievements of businesses throughout our local region, where they were also finalists for Medium Business, Employer and Campaign of the Year.
This ongoing sponsorship further showcases the great relationship between TwentyFour IT and Doncaster Knights, the value of local businesses supporting each other, and we look forward to building on this even further into 2026 and beyond.
For full details of TwentyFour IT’s services please visit, www.twenty-four.it.
If you are interested in sponsorship at Doncaster Knights, please contact Tracey Owen via email, [email protected].
For our squad, the visit to Doncaster Royal Infirmary Children’s Ward to hand out gifts and meet with those who are unfortunately on a ward and away from home at this time of year is as traditional as Christmas food and decorations.
As well as handing out gifts, time was taken to talk with young patients and their families. A selection of photos can be viewed on Doncaster Knights’ social media.
Doncaster Royal Infirmary is close to Doncaster Knights’ home stadium of Castle Park, so the players were able to head after training on Monday as preparations continue for Saturday’s match against Ampthill.
The players delivered specially prepared Christmas presents to patients on the ward, as well as meeting kind-hearted and friendly hospital staff.
“It’s truly a joy for us to be here and spend time with the children. We hope we can bring a smile to their faces—though honestly, they’re the ones who end up bringing the biggest smiles to ours,” said scrum-half Ollie Fox.
The Doncaster Knights Supporters Club New Year Lunch is taking place on Saturday 3rd January!
Get your New Year off to the perfect start. The event promises to be a cracker – featuring an afternoon of entertaining rugby, catch up with family and friends, delicious food and plenty of drinks.
The Knights Supporters Club Lunch brought to you by the T.O.S.S.E.R.S is a welcoming lunch, open to anyone who enjoys rugby union, good food and socialising in great company.
We will be enjoying our traditional homemade, delicious cow pie complete with chips & mushy peas followed by a cheese board. With the bar open and drinks available throughout the afternoon then this will be a real fun occasion to celebrate the New Year.
📍 Arms Park
🗓️ Saturday 3rd January
🏉 Knights vs Caldy
What’s included in your New Year Lunch of £26.50 per person (excluding match day tickets):
Enjoy the first fixture of 2026 in style with this offering. Book at:
Malcolm passed away on Friday after a long illness.
He joined the club in 1973, playing on the wing in the first team. Later in his career he played for the club in the back row.
Beyond his playing career, Malcolm continued to play pivotal roles with our club. He was on the committee for a number of years before becoming a board member and overseeing club sponsorship, matchday programmes and advertising boards among his responsibilities.
In 1986 he was honoured by the club with chain gang membership, before becoming a honorary life member in 2022.
The club sends their deepest condolences to all his family and friends at this sad time, he will be massively missed here at Doncaster Knights.
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This Christmas, hundreds of thousands of children will be living in poverty across the UK. Many are at risk of waking up with nothing under the tree because Christmas is a luxury their families simply can’t afford.
Mission Christmas is here to change that. With the help of Doncaster Knights supporters, they are getting ready to help Santa reach children who might receive nothing – making sure they have something special to open on Christmas morning.
Supporters can help. We are collecting presents for children up to the age of 18, on their behalf. Bring in your unwrapped donations gifts/presents to the Castle Park reception by Tuesday 16th December. Mission Christmas support children from birth to 18 but struggle the most with gifts for teenagers and babies (especially boys).
When bringing in presents we do have a criteria to be met. Here is a short Q&A:
We support children from birth to 18, but always struggle most with gifts for babies and teenagers (especially boys).
Unfortunately we can’t accept donations of any food. If you have food to donate, please give it to your local food bank.
Yes – these must be new and sealed and will only be given as an addition to a gift bundle.
We can’t accept any second-hand or used gifts, regardless of their condition, for health and safety reasons. We also only accept new gifts to ensure that the children we support are getting something new for Christmas – especially since it may be the only gift they receive.
All gifts should be unwrapped. Gifts are left unwrapped for safety reasons, and to enable us and the organisations we support to work out which age group they are suitable for.
There’s no need to do this – we always check the age outlined on the box.
Yes we do! We pass these on to other local charities and organisations who receive gifts so parents and carers can wrap their children’s presents.
Batteries can be expensive for parents to buy, so if possible please do provide them. Please tape batteries to the side of the box so that children can play with their gift on Christmas Day.
We do, but please try to only donate clothing that is one-size-fits-all (e.g. hats and scarves) as we aren’t given sizing information for the children we support. Please also remember that this is a gift appeal, so we would appreciate it if you chose an item of clothing suitable to give as a gift. Clothes must be new and carry all washing and safety tags. Unfortunately we can’t accept hand-made clothing.
We don’t accept second-hand clothes as Mission Christmas gifts but you can take them to one of our Cash for Kids recycling banks which are available in many areas. Please visit cashforkids.org.uk/recycling and enter your post code on the map to find your nearest textile recycling bank. We’ll receive money for the items which will go towards our granting programmes.
Yes, these can be taken to locations shown on this map, by 18th December.
Yes. Mission Christmas HQs can found on the drop-off points map.
As early as possible, and no later than 18th December. Our fans need to be bringing their gifts to reception by Tuesday 16th December then we will drop everything off no later than Thursday 18th December.
Gifts are sorted by our team and volunteers. The gifts are signed for and collected by the organisation who has applied on behalf of the children they work with. The organisation then wrap and distribute the gifts to the children they are supporting.
We, along with the organisations we’re supporting, need a couple of days to sort and deliver the gifts to children and their families. Closing donations a few days before Christmas.
Doncaster Knights are thrilled to confirm that MF Hire have renewed their kit sponsorship on a 3 year deal, proudly displaying their branding visibly on the Knights home and away kits. With all of our games being live streamed this season, then this will showcase their tool and equipment hire business to an even wider audience.
MF Hire is an independent tool and equipment hire company with over 40 years of experience. They provide a wide range of tools and equipment to industry, trade customers and DIY enthusiasts for hire or sale.
As well as their kit sponsorship, MF Hire also have advertising boards at Doncaster Knights and their sister company, MFH PPE & Workwear also recently sponsored our Chinnor home game. Bringing awareness of their PPE & Workwear business to fans, sponsors and hospitality guests, Zak Poole and Chris Garcia also enjoyed hospitality in the Heineken Lounge which provided excellent networking before and after the game.
Zak Poole, Sales Executive said, “it’s important to MF Hire to support local sports and communities and with Doncaster Knights providing the professional rugby club but also their community clubs we are delighted to continue our sponsorship. The values of rugby are closely aligned to our business with team work, discipline & enthusiasm shown throughout MF Hire.”
Working closely with Tracey Owen, Head of Commercial at Doncaster Knights, Zak Poole and his colleague, Chris Garcia are also enjoying meeting the full range of sponsors at Doncaster Knights to see how they can benefit other businesses.
Tracey advised, “we are delighted that Doncaster Knights and MF Hire / MFH PPE and Workwear have renewed their sponsorship and support of the club. Entering into a 3 year deal on kit sponsorship provides the perfect long term partnership where we can work together over a longer period of time to really develop our relationship. MF Hire’s enthusiasm for the sport and their commitment to providing innovative, high-quality service make them an outstanding partners whose support strengthens the club and our community alike.”
Doncaster Knights and MF Hire look forward to building on their partnership and achieving mutual success throughout the 2025/26 season and beyond. To learn more about MF Hire and MFH PPE and Workwear, please visit their website, www.mfhire.co.uk
To learn more about sponsorship opportunities at Doncaster Knights and how this can benefit your business please contact Tracey on [email protected] or 01302 831 388.
Doncaster Phoenix’s Christmas Lunch will take place on Saturday 20th December.
Phoenix host Bradford Salem in a game kicking off at 2.15pm but before that we will be holding our Christmas Lunch in the Arms Park Suite.
Individual seats are priced at £25 a head or whole tables are available but are very limited.
To book contact Paul Curzon on 07455 627382 or Chloe Elmy on 07950 578646 to reserve your space.
Doncaster Knights players were joined by representatives from Support Dogs on Thursday 30th October.
Knights were joined by guest speaker Tess Thompson, alongside dog handler Trevor and special guest trainee support dog Lilly.
The event was organised by the Knights Rotary Club, a charity set up to support local causes and build business relationships across Doncaster. The rotary club regularly organise fundraisers that support our own Doncaster Knights Foundation, as well as undertaking various business visits and other initiatives. The Support Dogs is the chosen charity for the Knights Rotary Club for the 2025 calendar year.
Support Dogs is a charity training autism assistance dogs, epilepsy seizure alert dogs and disability assistance dogs for those affected by a wide range of physical conditions including MS, Cerebral Palsy, fibromyalgia, and more.
For more information about Support Dogs click here.
