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Players the focus as welfare managers complete CPD event
Category: General

Players the focus as welfare managers complete CPD event

Rugby League Cares has reaffirmed its commitment to providing world class levels of support to the sport’s playing community by running a two-day continuous professional development (CPD) event for club player welfare managers. Hosted at UCEN Manchester at their City Campus Manchester and delivered by the higher education organisation’s expert tutors and trainers, the event […]

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RL Cares appoints Partnerships Manager
Category: General

RL Cares appoints Partnerships Manager

Rugby League Cares is delighted to announce the appointment of Nav Uppal as its first Partnerships Manager. Nav will manage the relationships with the charity’s existing partners across commercial and health projects and be responsible for growing the partnership portfolio to enable RL Cares to enhance its support for the sport’s wider stakeholders. A law […]

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Steve Prescott Foundation makes amazing £50,000 donation
Category: RL Benevolent Fund

Steve Prescott Foundation makes amazing £50,000 donation

The Steve Prescott Foundation has underlined its commitment to the Rugby League Benevolent Fund with a further £50,000 donation to the charity. The incredible contribution result from an extraordinary fundraising effort from SPF supporters and sponsors throughout 2022. SPF have also donated £50,000 to the Christie Charitable Fund. SPF General Manager Martin Blondel declared the Foundation […]

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2022: a year of huge strides for player welfare
Category: Players

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
Category: Players

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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