It is with immense sadness that Birmingham Moseley shares the news that Javan Bramhall passed away peacefully last week, with his family around him. Our thoughts are with Claire, his children, and all of Jav’s family and friends at this incredibly difficult time.

Jav had faced health challenges over the past year or so, and through all of it he remained the same person the Club knew and loved – positive, warm, and still thinking about the M&J section and the people in it rather than himself. That says everything about the man he was.

Jav was Chairman of the Club’s Mini and Junior section, and it’s hard to put into words what he meant to it. He never treated the M&Js as something that ran alongside the Club, to him, it was the foundation the whole Club stood on. He held the section, and himself, to a high standard: well organised, well coached, and open to any child who wanted to play. He was there most weekends, giving it years of his time, always thinking about where it needed to be in five years, not five weeks. The section grew enormously under his chairmanship, and it grew properly, on foundations built to last.

But the real measure of what Jav did isn’t in the numbers. It’s in the Sunday mornings: kids turning up to play rugby at Moseley because somebody had made sure there was a team for them, a coach ready to run the session, a fixture in the diary. A whole generation of Moseley players has come through the section on his watch and so many of them, and their parents, knew Jav well and will miss him.

It was no surprise that Jav was named the Club’s Clubman of the Year for 2025/26 – recognition for exactly this kind of work, done quietly and consistently for years.

Away from the Club, Jav founded and ran Digital Glue in Birmingham. He was a proud father to his two children and a loving husband to Claire.

The best tribute we can pay Jav is to look after the section he built with such care. That’s what we intend to do.

The family have asked for no flowers. Donations in his memory can be made to the Ruth Strauss Foundation.