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

Objects

1) THE RELIEF OF PERSONS SUFFERING FROM INJURY OR SICKNESS2) THE RELIEF OF PERSONS IN NECESSITOUS CIRCUMSTANCES3) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND RESEARCH

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED IN PRACTICE NATIONAL

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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

Registered contact address: Richmond upon Thames, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

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.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 30/06/2023 (received 01/05/2024, 1 day after the 30/04/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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 4.7 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 5.3%) (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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Charities like this

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

• RUGBY FOOTBALL FOUNDATION income £24.9m
• RESTART RUGBY income £219k
• THE FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION BENEVOLENT FUND income £141k
• GLOBAL RUGBY PLAYERS' FOUNDATION income £979k
• DEVONPORT SERVICES RUGBY FOOTBALL CLUB income £272k
• THE RUGBY FIVES ASSOCIATION income £47k

Side by side with its peers

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