Partners & Funders




The Metropolitan Police Service is committed to working with young people to make London safer. This project follows MPS involvement with other sports initiatives such as Kickz and Met-track which provide an added opportunity for police officers to engage with young people regularly and talk to them about crime and safety issues. Through involvement in such projects the MPS aims to further develop confidence and trust between police and young people.


Premier Rugby is the body owned by the 12 Guinness Premiership clubs and entrusted by them to manage their central rights, including television contracts, central sponsorship and national community programmes.
Each season the 12 Guinness Premiership clubs invest 150,000 man hours of work in their local communities, working with a quarter if a million people through over 150 partnerships, local and national.
All this community work is run on the back of the success of the Guinness Premiership; the most competitive league in world rugby. 12 teams, with over 500 contracted professional players, two thirds of whom are English qualified, including the current and future stars of the England team.


The Rugby Football Union is the national governing body for grassroots and elite rugby in England, with 1,900 autonomous rugby clubs in its membership.
The clubs are grouped within 35 Constituent Bodies (CBs), comprised of counties - some individual, some combined - the three armed forces, Oxford and Cambridge Universities, England Schools Rugby Football Union and England Students.
All of this is supported by the RFU's 50 Rugby Development Officers, eight Regional Development Managers and no less than 150 Community Rugby Coaches across the country, who provide some 30,000 coaching sessions a year for young people.
As a governing body, the RFU is responsible for rugby union in England at every level, from mini rugby teams in local clubs to the England team.The RFU employs approximately 500 paid staff and helps to train and support up to 40,000 volunteers.


In the UK, one child in every hundred suffers from a lifelong disability that will profoundly affect his or her ability to lead a full and happy life. More than 3.5 million young people grow up in low income households or live in an environment where they are subjected to poverty of aspiration. At Wooden Spoon, we believe that all children and young people deserve the chance to live happy fulfilled lives regardless of the challenges they may face. Spoon harnesses the spirit and values of rugby to give disadvantaged children and young people in the UK and Ireland a chance to achieve their full potential in life.
We partner with the UK rugby community, receiving invaluable support for our activities and the opportunity to raise awareness of the work we do. In doing so, we involve some of the UK’s top sporting role models in making a difference in the lives of young people in need. During our first 26 years, over half a million young people benefitted from more than £16 million pounds of investment in charitable projects thanks to the efforts of our staff and volunteers. We are proud of our legacy, the work we do, and our ambitious plans for the future.


The Rugby Football Foundation is an official charity of the RFU, using Rugby Union to benefit society. It does this by commissioning rugby coaches to work across England with people of all ages and abilities to improve their lives and prospects through the game; it helps grassroots clubs improve their facilities through grants and loans, and it preserves the heritage and promotes the culture of Rugby Union across the globe through the World Rugby Museum based at Twickenham stadium.



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