We are proud to be partnering with incredible charities who all have a connection with rugby at their core:
Dallaglio RugbyWorks
LooseHeadz
Matt Hampson Foundation
My Name’5 Doddie Foundation
Wooden Spoon
The Lions Trust supports these important charities and helps them raise as much money as possible by highlighting the vital work they do.
Dallaglio RugbyWorks delivers programmes for young people who have been excluded or are at risk of exclusion from school. They provide interventions aimed at developing life skills, increasing employer interactions and opportunities, and preparing young people for the workplace. RugbyWorks engages young people using the values of rugby, alongside bespoke learning sessions and individualised mentoring, with the goal to move them towards sustained education, employment and training (EET).
LooseHeadz is rugby’s mental health charity on a mission to place a mental health lead at every rugby club around the world. They use rugby as a vehicle to drive and open up the conversation. They provide each partner rugby club with a toolkit of completely free resources to support the mental fitness of players, coaches and supporters. LooseHeadz currently works with around 1,000 rugby clubs in 20 different countries to help get people talking and #TackleTheStigma.
The Matt Hampson Foundation aims to inspire and support anyone in the UK who suffers a life-changing injury through sport with the provision of physical and mental well-being support.
The Foundation is the brainchild of founder and ex-England and Leicester Tigers rugby player Matt Hampson OBE, who himself experienced a life-changing injury in 2005 leaving him paralysed from the neck down, aged just 20.
At the heart of the Foundation is the Get Busy Living Centre in rural Leicestershire. Opened in 2018, the centre provides expert physiotherapy, specialist personal training, support, mentoring and advice to people suffering a life-changing injury.
The Foundation has a clear vision of a world free of motor neuron disease. Established in November 2017, following former Scotland international Doddie Weir’s diagnosis with Motor Neuron Disease (MND), the charity was founded in response to his frustration at the lack of options given to MND patients – no effective treatment, no access to meaningful clinical trials and no hope.
The aims of the Foundation are twofold. To raise funds to aid research into the causes of MND and investigate potential cures; and to make grants to individuals suffering from MND, to enable them to live as fulfilled a life as possible.
It is committed to funding, guiding and enabling the smartest, most efficient research to expedite new treatments for MND. The Foundation also aims to inform and support patients and their families while also raising awareness through promoting disease education and advocacy.
Since it was launched in November 2017, the Foundation has committed almost £6 million to MND research projects and a further £1 million in grants to support people living with MND.
Wooden Spoon is the children’s charity of rugby, funding life-changing projects that support children and young people with disabilities or living in disadvantage.
Since 1983 Wooden Spoon has raised over £29m and funded over 1,300 projects across UK and Ireland, including projects such as sensory playrooms, playground and outdoor activities, health and wellbeing and specialist equipment.
Rugby heritage drives the charity’s core values of passion, integrity, teamwork and fun.