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.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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.

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

Common questions

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Charities like this

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

• THE PLAYERS FOUNDATION income £1.3m
• RFU INJURED PLAYERS FOUNDATION income £2.1m
• THE ATLAS FOUNDATION income £872k
• Gloucester Rugby Foundation income £873k
• RUGBY FOR HEROES income £227k
• SWITCH THE PLAY FOUNDATION income £706k

Side by side with its peers

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