RFU INJURED PLAYERS FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1122139 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SPIRE RUGBY TRUST

Support to those seriously injured playing sport under the auspices of the Rugby Football Union

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Other Charitable Purposes · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds total unrestricted reserves of £5.2m, which exceeds the minimum level of £2.2m determined necessary by the Trustees. The Trustees and auditors confirm there is no material uncertainty regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern, citing a strong balance sheet with adequate liquid resources.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by BDO LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — RFU Injured Players Foundation (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Karen Hood — Director (source)
• Stephen Duckworth — Chair of Trustees (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~37.2 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (85% 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: 18.6% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Aideen Steed
• Antonia Bennett
• Dr Evan Davies
• Ewen Murchison
• Hannah Farrell
• Jacqueline Dyer
• Lee Anthony Jones
• Norman John Robertson
• Roger Badman
• Stephen Duckworth · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with UKAF RUGBY FOOTBALL CLUB.

• UKAF RUGBY FOOTBALL CLUB income £186k
• RUGBY FOOTBALL FOUNDATION income £24.9m
• THE ATLAS FOUNDATION income £872k
• WINSCOMBE RUGBY FOOTBALL CLUB income £114k
• THE INJURED JOCKEYS FUND income £8.0m
• BARNES RUGBY FOOTBALL CLUB income £399k

Side by side with its peers

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