RESTART RUGBY

Registered charity 1113160 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as PRA BENEVOLENT FUND, RESTART, THE RPA BENEVOLENT FUND

RESTART IS THE CHARITY OF THE RUGBY PLAYERS ASSOCIATION (RPA) PROVIDING SUPPORT FOR PRESENT AND FORMER PROFESSIONAL PLAYERS SUFFERING FROM SERIOUS INJURY, ILLNESS OR HARDSHIP.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Amateur Sport · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves decreased to £87,318, and the charity reports a net expenditure of £120,300 for the year. The Trustees note that the charity is largely dependent on fundraising events and restricted funding from stakeholders like the RFU and PRL for its sustainability.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 05179792

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Restart (matched by registered charity number).

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• JONES, Megan Elizabeth — director, appointed 01/12/2025on trustee list
• CURTIS, Dean Allen — director, appointed 05/11/2025on trustee list
• ALABASTER, Catherine Phyllis Mary — director, appointed 08/05/2025on trustee list
• LAMBERT, Mark David — director, appointed 04/03/2025on trustee list
• ROBERTS, Claire-Marie, Dr — director, appointed 17/10/2023on trustee list
• COOK, Dean Spencer — director, appointed 17/10/2023on trustee list
• JACKSON, Edward Thomas Bentley — director, appointed 01/08/2018not on trustee list
• CAMPION, David Mark — director, appointed 14/07/2004on trustee list

Official officers record.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/01/2022)

Reported reserves equal ~3.7 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 7.0 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (55% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 20.9% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 2.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Catherine Phyllis Mary Alabaster
• DAVID MARK CAMPION
• Dean Cook
• Dean Curtis
• Dr Claire-Marie Roberts
• Ed Jackson
• Mark Lambert
• Megan Jones

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with RFU INJURED PLAYERS FOUNDATION.

• RFU INJURED PLAYERS FOUNDATION income £2.1m
• GLOBAL RUGBY PLAYERS' FOUNDATION income £979k
• RUGBY AGAINST CANCER income £102k
• RUGBY FOR HEROES income £227k
• UKAF RUGBY FOOTBALL CLUB income £186k
• RUTHERFORD ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL CLUB income £305k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.