Contact the World's Oldest Rugby Sevens Tournament
Reach the Melrose Sevens team with questions about the tournament, media coverage, partnerships, and general event matters.
How to Reach Us
We welcome straightforward questions, useful feedback, and the kind of small details that help people enjoy the tournament properly.
For general business inquiries, event questions, historical queries, or website notes, email [email protected]. A clear subject line helps more than people think, especially in the weeks when match-day planning, travel questions, and archive requests all arrive together.
Tell Us the Topic First
Start with the reason for getting in touch: tickets, history, media, partnerships, competing teams, or website feedback. It saves a round of back-and-forth.
Include the Useful Detail
Dates, team names, match references, publication deadlines, and the page you were reading all help us route the message cleanly.
Use One Email Thread
If the question changes slightly, keep it in the same thread. That gives the next person the full trail without asking you to repeat yourself.
Field note
Please do not send physical post, courier items, or phone requests through this page. We handle contact here by email only, so the right person can review the details and reply with care.
Press and Media Inquiries
Journalists, photographers, broadcasters, podcasters, and editors should contact [email protected].
The best media requests give us the working angle early. A feature on the origins of sevens rugby needs different support from a match-week preview, and a photo request from the archive needs different handling again. If you are on deadline, put the deadline in the subject line and repeat it in the first sentence.
What Helps a Media Request Move
- Your name, outlet, and role on the piece.
- The format: print, digital, radio, television, podcast, newsletter, or documentary.
- The topic you are covering and the intended publication date.
- Any interview, image, accreditation, or background request you are making.
Melrose Sevens carries a long public memory. People often arrive with a brilliant half-remembered detail from a past final, a family connection to a player, or a claim about an early tournament year. We enjoy those trails, but we treat them carefully. Historical answers may need checking against available records rather than relying on a neat version that sounds good in a headline.
My own rule with media work is simple: ask the plain question first. If you need a quote, say so. If you need background only, say that too.
Partnership Opportunities
For sponsorship, community, heritage, education, hospitality, and commercial partnership conversations, email [email protected].
The strongest partnership approaches usually start with fit, not scale. Melrose Sevens is a tournament with sporting history, local roots, visiting teams, volunteers, supporters, and a global sevens legacy. A useful proposal respects that mix.
Good Starting Points
Tell us what you want to support and why it belongs with the tournament. Community activity, youth rugby, heritage storytelling, visitor experience, and responsible event services are all easier to discuss when the purpose is clear.
What to Avoid
Avoid sending a generic sales deck with no reference to the event, the town, the teams, or the audience. We can spot those quickly, and they rarely lead to a useful first conversation.
Before You Email
Have a look at About Melrose Sevens if you are new to the tournament. That gives useful context before you pitch an idea, especially if your work touches heritage, sport development, or the match-day visitor experience.
If you represent a brand, charity, club, broadcaster, school, local group, or rugby body, include your timeframe and the decision you are hoping to make next. We do not need a polished proposal at first contact. We do need enough detail to understand whether the idea belongs in a proper conversation.
Inquiry Response Times and Scope
We read incoming messages with care, but response time depends on the season and the nature of the question.
In quieter parts of the year, general inquiries are easier to handle in order. Near tournament time, event operations, safety-related matters, confirmed media deadlines, and partnership items tied to live planning may need attention first. That is not a slight on historical or general questions; it is just how a working tournament desk has to behave when match day gets close.
What We Can Usually Help With
- General questions about Melrose Sevens and the website.
- Media and press requests connected to current or planned coverage.
- Partnership approaches that relate to the tournament, community, or visitor experience.
- Basic guidance on where to find event information across this site.
What May Sit Outside Our Scope
We may not be able to verify every private family story, source every old photograph, provide personal contact details, or answer questions that belong to a separate club, team, supplier, or governing body. If your message involves personal information, please read our Privacy Policy before sending details you would not want shared widely.
One final practical tip: if you have not heard back, a short follow-up is fine. Keep the original subject line, add the deadline if there is one, and tell us what has changed. That gives your message a fair chance without starting the trail again.
Thank you for taking the time to contact Melrose Sevens. Whether you are asking from across town or across the rugby world, we are glad you found us.