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RFL Benevolent Fund receives £80,000 donation from Steve Prescott Foundation THE RFL Benevolent Fund is delighted to announce that it has received a donation of £80,000 from the Steve Prescott Foundation to assist the charity provide help and support to people who have suffered life-changing injuries playing rugby league. The Benevolent Fund works with some of the most vulnerable and needy members of the rugby league community and the donation from the Steve Prescott Foundation will allow that important role to continue. Steve Ball, the General Manager of the RFL Benevolent Fund said: “We would like to thank both the Steve Prescott Foundation, and the thousands of people who have supported the Foundation’s fantastic fund-raising initiatives, for this very generous donation. “Since 2007 the Steve Prescott Foundation has raised over £410,000 for the Benevolent Fund and their support has enabled us to make a positive difference to a great many former players. “Steve Prescott was very passionate about the work the Benevolent Fund does and we are proud of our continued association with his foundation.” The RFL Benevolent Fund recently helped raise over £300,000 for a trust fund in aid of the children of […]
New Lease of Life For Luke! Thanks to a £80,000 donation from the Steve Prescott Foundation (SPF) through the Rugby League Benevolent Fund Luke Bryan will move into a specially adapted home in Haydock. The Rugby League Benevolent Fund, one of the charities supported by the SPF, helps players who have been affected by serious injury. Linzi, Taylor and Koby Prescott were on hand to lay the first bricks at Luke’s new home. Luke Bryan says his new home will give him the independence he craves and a new lease of life. The former rugby league player was paralysed from the neck down following a devastating injury in 1996 while playing for Haydock under 18s. Luke, 36, currently lives in the extension of the family home on Clipsley Lane with mum Christine. He explained: “This will mean everything to me. I will also be able to look out on to a garden instead of a concrete base. I will be able to look out of the window and see my dogs playing. I moved into this house when I was 11 and had my accident at 17. This new place will be my home I will have my own kitchen […]
Singer Lizzie Jones is spearheading a new campaign to raise funds for equipment that could prove the difference between life and death at Rugby League clubs across the UK. Lizzie, who reduced a Wembley crowd to tears and moved millions of TV viewers with an emotional performance at the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award, has today launched the Danny Jones Defibrillator Fund named in honour of her late husband. Danny Jones was a Keighley Cougars and Wales international half-back who collapsed and died from an undiagnosed heart condition while playing against London Skolars last May. Following his tragic death, Lizzie successfully campaigned for cardiac screening to become mandatory at every Kingstone Press Championship and League 1 club, as it already is in the First Utility Super League. Now, Lizzie has joined forces with the RFL Benevolent Fund to raise money to create a fund that will provide assistance to hundreds of community clubs and junior teams across the country to purchase a defibrillator. Defibrillators cost around £1,000 each and provide potentially life-saving treatment to anyone suffering a cardiac arrest. Lizzie Jones said: “This is my way of saying a big ‘Thank You’ to the wider Rugby League family […]
Hear from Lizzie Jones, who will sing the traditional Challenge Cup final hymn, Abide With Me at Wembley ahead of the Ladbrokes Challenge Cup final. Lizzie lost her husband Danny Jones, the Keighley Cougars player who passed away on Sunday May 3rd after suffering a suspected cardiac arrest during a League 1 match against London Skolars. To donate to the Danny Jones fund goes to www.justgiving.co.uk/dannyjones29 and to buy tickets for the Ladbrokes Challenge Cup final go to www.rugbyleaguetickets.co.uk
The RFL is delighted to announce that Lizzie Jones will sing the traditional Ladbrokes Challenge Cup final hymn, Abide With Me prior to kick-off at Wembley Stadium on Saturday August 29. Lizzie, the wife of former Keighley Cougars and Wales international Danny Jones, is a professional singer who wants to use the occasion to thank the Rugby League family for their heartfelt support since her husband’s tragic death in May. Danny died from undiagnosed hereditary heart disease after collapsing during a match against London Skolars, leaving behind Lizzie and their twins Bobby and Phoebe, who are now eight months old. Since then Rugby League fans, players, administrators and the wider public have donated over £230,000 to a trust fund set up by the RFL Benevolent Fund to secure the futures of Danny and Lizzie’s children. Her performance ahead of the final between Hull Kingston Rovers and Leeds Rhinos will see Lizzie follow in the footsteps of Danny, who represented Wales at the national stadium in a Four Nations fixture in 2011. Lizzie Jones said: “It’s fantastic for me, I’m so excited and happy to be able to do something for Danny and to say ‘Thank you’ to the Rugby League […]
