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Former players invited to attend Challenge Cup Finals Day
Rugby League Cares and the RFL are inviting all former players to attend Betfred Challenge Cup Finals Day at Wembley next month – as a way of catching up with former team-mates, opponents, friends and maybe even enemies, and also to boost the growing number of past players associations. Francis Stephenson, the ex-England forward who […]
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RL Cares inspires the stars of tomorrow at Rookie Camp
The next generation of rugby league heroes were given an informative and insightful introduction to their new lives as professional athletes at the 2023 Rookie Camp. Organised and delivered by the independent charity Rugby League Cares, the Rookie Camp saw 70 first-year full-time professional players participate in a series of presentations and workshops designed to […]
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2022: a year of huge strides for player welfare
Rugby league’s commitment to safeguarding the health and wellbeing of the sport’s most important stakeholders, its players, has continued to strengthen throughout 2022. Significant investment in player welfare services by Rugby League Cares has been accompanied by some outstanding work at club level, where an enlightened approach by chairmen and chief executives is seeing players […]
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RL Cares appoints full-time psychotherapist and counsellor
Rugby League Cares has strengthened its welfare and wellbeing team with the appointment of psychotherapist David Kirk. David joins the charity with a wealth of experience in counselling and psychotherapy support provision to athletes, having spent much of the last decade working alongside sportsmen and women across a wide range of sports including rugby league, […]
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