GLOBAL RUGBY PLAYERS' FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1204658 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Global Rugby Players Foundation seeks to empower rugby players, who contributed to the success of the game, to have a healthy and fulfilling life after they leave it. It seeks to reframe the concept of retirement by looking at it as a positive challenge and an opportunity for people to forge new careers, build new connections and expand their identity.

Objects

3.1 THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT:3.1.1 TO RELIEVE SICKNESS AND ILL-HEALTH, AND TO PROMOTE AND PROTECT THE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH OF RETIRED PLAYERS BY THE PROVISION OF FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE, SUPPORT, EDUCATION AND PRACTICAL ADVICE;3.1.2 THE RELIEF OF FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR UNEMPLOYMENT AMONG RETIRED PLAYERS BY PROVIDING OR ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF EDUCATION AND SKILLS TRAINING AND OTHER SUCH SUPPORT TO ASSIST THEM IN GENERATING A SUSTAINABLE INCOME AND BECOMING SELF-SUFFICIENT OR ASSIST THEM IN FINDING EMPLOYMENT;3.1.3 TO FURTHER SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES, WITH A PARTICULAR FOCUS ON FURTHERING PURPOSES WHICH ADDRESS THE CHARITABLE NEEDS OF RETIRED PLAYERS, AS THE TRUSTEES SEE FIT FROM TIME TO TIME.3.2 IN CLAUSE 3.1 RETIRED PLAYERS MEANS MEN AND WOMEN WHO HAVE:3.2.1 BEEN EMPLOYED TO PLAY THE SPORT OF RUGBY ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD;3.2.2 PLAYED THE SPORT OF RUGBY AT THE TOP TIER OF DOMESTIC COMPETITION ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD (WHETHER OR NOT THEY WERE PAID);3.2.3 REPRESENTED THEIR NATION AT THE SPORT OF RUGBY IN SENIOR RUGBY WORLD CUP (XVS) OR WORLD SERIES (7S) COMPETITION (WHETHER OR NOT THEY WERE PAID); OR3.2.4 REPRESENTED THEIR NATION AT THE SPORT OF RUGBY IN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION (WHETHER OR NOT THEY WERE PAID).3.3 IN THIS CLAUSE 3, ‘RUGBY’ MEANS THE SPORT OF RUGBY UNION PLAYED PURSUANT TO LAWS, REGULATIONS AND BYELAWS ISSUED BY WORLD RUGBY FROM TIME TO TIME.

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

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Registered contact address: Camden, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £207,766 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in unrestricted reserves of the same amount. Per the trustees' report, this balance is considered within the target reserves policy, providing five months of operational expenditure. The charity relies heavily on World Rugby for funding, which accounted for the vast majority of its incoming resources.

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.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "below" (FY2024) to "within" (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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 policy and procedures
• 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
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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

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

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~3.2 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other (98% 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: 11.6% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• George Musarurwa Greganchair
• DANIEL WILLIAM CARTER ONZM
• DAVID QUINLAN
• Natalie Frank

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

Operates in: Australia · Fiji · France · Ireland · Italy · Japan · New Zealand · Romania · Samoa · South Africa · Throughout England And Wales · Tonga

Income and spending

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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
• GREAT BRITAIN WHEELCHAIR RUGBY LIMITED income £2.0m
• RUGBY FOR HEROES income £227k
• LONDON RUGBY LEAGUE FOUNDATION income £145k
• THE WORLD TRANSPLANT GAMES FEDERATION income £298k
• THE PLAYERS FOUNDATION income £1.3m

Side by side with its peers

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