Simon Bewley

• Co-Founded Alive Outside.
• This events company has organized over 30 Events; 'HELL & BACK', Ireland's toughest physical and mental endurance challenge.

My role and duties included:

• Race Director
• Designing & building H&B obstacles
• Training and managing staff

• Founded 'Irish Tag Rugby Association' and pioneered the sport of Tag Rugby in Ireland for past 26 years.
• I have been involved in most aspects of business.

My role and duties included:

• Hiring and managing staff
• Payroll
• Designing 'Laws of Tag'
• Ongoing training of qualified Tag Referees
• Scheduling of Tag Referees
• Editing website and in putting results from matches
• Planning and running Tag Events over weekends
• Administration of sport on day-to-day basis
• Organizing Committee for 2023 Tag World Cup which we organized and ran in University of Limerick with 85 participating teams (1,600 participants) from around the world.

• Rugby Development Officer for Clontarf RFC (1 Yr).
• Appointed National Tag Rugby Development Officer
• Coordinated national schools ' Tag Rugby' Programme with hundreds of NS in four provinces
• Responsible for liaising with Ford who sponsored programme

• Boarding house master
• Helping with PE classes
• Coaching rugby, hockey and cricket in both the Primary and Secondary Peterhouse Schools
• Supervising students on school trips, including overnight camping trips in the bush

• Coordinated sports and extra curricular activities for Junior & Senior school
• Responsible for sports fixtures throughout year, including pitch availability & Referees.
• Ordering daily buses for transportation to /from off-campus sports fields
• Teaching swimming during PE classes
• Coaching Rugby and Cricket after school
• Officiating schools matches
• I helped to organize school rugby tour to South Africa in 1996

I spent two summers from June - August working as a 'camp counsellor' at a residential camp in Ontario, Canada.

• Responsible for looking after children; aged 7 - 14 years, 6 days of week
• Organizing entertainment (sports & crafts) throughout days and also responsible for their safety and welfare at night.

After leaving school in June, I worked for the summer to earn money to travel to South Africa as an ‘Anti-Apartheid' campaigner and worked voluntarily as a Junior Master at a secondary school called Phuthing, in Johannesburg for one year. It was a New Era Schools Trust (NEST) the first non-racial secondary school of its kind in SA!

My Roles:

• Boarding house master
• Setting up and processing books in the new school library
• Coaching sports after school (football, tennis and swimming)
• Setting up and running the first non-racial u18 Schools Football League in Johannesburg. The first 'player of colour' was selected for both tennis & basketball in the Transvaal Representative teams under my programme.