SPORT CARES

Registered charity 1150763 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as RUGBY LEAGUE CARES

Rugby League Cares is the Rugby League's national charity, dedicated to supporting the Rugby League family and its local communities. Our mission is to enhance and enrich people's lives through the power and positive influence of Rugby League.Rugby League Cares supports Rugby League's broad community - Past, Present & Future:

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · Recreation · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £32,740 for the year ended 31 December 2024, resulting in total net assets of £672,286. The trustees confirm that unrestricted funds of £672,286 are held, which exceeds their stated policy target of maintaining at least one month's management, administration, and support costs. The auditor reported no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sutton McGrath Hartley Accountants Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Rugby League Cares (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Chris Rostron — Chief Executive (source)
• Nigel Hansford — Finance Director (source)
• Steve McCormack — Director of Wellbeing (source)
• Emma Goldsmith — Director of Community (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 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~5.1 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (93% 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: 39.3% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• David Hinchcliffe
• GARY HETHERINGTON
• Jane Walton · trustee of 4 other charities
• John Heritage · trustee of 2 other charities
• KEVIN SINFIELD
• Karen Elizabeth Moorhouse · trustee of 1 other charity
• Neville Alan Smith
• Stuart Taylor
• TIMOTHY LAWRENCE ADAMS · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

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 LONDON RUGBY LEAGUE FOUNDATION.

• LONDON RUGBY LEAGUE FOUNDATION income £145k
• RUGBY AGAINST CANCER income £102k
• RFU INJURED PLAYERS FOUNDATION income £2.1m
• WIGAN WARRIORS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £627k
• HITCHIN RUGBY LIMITED income £344k
• THE ATLAS FOUNDATION income £872k

Side by side with its peers

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