RPA Benevolent Fund

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The RPA Benevolent Fund is the professional players charity, established to provide financial help and practical support to RPA members in the following areas:

• those who have suffered hardship including serious injury or illness.

• assisting members to attain educational qualifications. It is recognised that investment in our members education will help to minimise hardship demands on the Benevolent Fund in the future

• helping qualified alumni members with the cost of ongoing medical treatment as a result of rugby related injuries

Previous recipients include the Nick Duncombe Memorial Trust set up in memory of the Harlequins & England scrum half who passed away in 2003, Sale Sharks Andy Blyth, London Irish full back Jarrod Cunningham who passed away in 2007 from Motor Neurones aged just 39, former England and Bristol full back Alastair Hignell and, most notably, Leicester and Englands U-21 prop Matt Hampson, who suffered a serious neck injury in 2005.