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<\/p>\nThe round will take place in August.<\/p>\n
Rugby League will hold it’s first ever Charity Round during the Bank Holiday weekend in August – the same weekend as the sport’s Northern Union breakaway back in 1895.<\/p>\n
The round will take place across August 27-31, with the breakaway famously coming at Huddersfield’s George Hotel on August 29.<\/p>\n
Games from Super League, both the men’s and women’s competitions, and the Championship, not to mention the final of the 1895 Cup, will come together to support the renamed Seriously Injured Players Fund.<\/p>\n
The charity was founded to support seriously-injured players and their families, under a new initiative launched jointly by Rugby League Cares, Rugby League Commercial and the Rugby Football League.<\/p>\n
The Seriously Injured Players Fund is a new name for the Rugby League Benevolent Fund \u2013 which has been rebranded 21 years after its foundation in 2005, in response to the injuries suffered by Danny Scott and the late Matt King OBE.<\/p>\n
The round will kick off with a Super League clash between Wigan Warriors and Hull KR on Thursday 27 August and conclude with the 1895 Cup Final on the Bank Holiday Monday (August 31).<\/p>\n
Francis Stephenson, general manager of the Seriously Injured Players fund, said: “It will be a first for Rugby League to have the whole sport coming together knowing that all the money we raise will be in aid of seriously injured players and their families.<\/p>\n
“The sport is rightly proud of the work the Benevolent Fund has done over the last two decades. But from my discussions with clubs and other key stakeholders through the winter, it became clear that the growth of Rugby League Cares and all the wonderful work the charity does around mental fitness and wellbeing has led to some confusion about the role of the Benevolent Fund.<\/p>\n
“That’s why we wanted to remove that confusion with a new title and brand for the charity which leaves no doubt about its purpose – fans will know when they support the Charity Round, or the Seriously Injured Players Fund in any other way, their money will go directly to enhancing the lives of those players and their families.<\/p>\n
“Rugby League continues to prioritise player safety and minimising the number of serious injuries, but we have to recognise that in a collision sport, as in life in general, accidents will occasionally happen – and to be prepared to react as necessary.<\/p>\n
“The Seriously Injured Players Fund is how we do that, as well as continuing to support the long-term beneficiaries – and it’s typical of those beneficiaries that they have volunteered to be at the centre of a physical fund-raising challenge which we\u2019ll be announcing later in the summer.<\/p>\n
“We’re all massively grateful to Rugby League Commercial and the Rugby Football League for their support in the introduction of the RL Cares Charity Round, and likewise to clubs at all levels.<\/p>\n
“Timing the Charity Round to coincide with the anniversary of the foundation of the sport in 1895 provides the chance for clubs and supporters to come together and celebrate everything that’s great about Rugby League.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The round will take place in August. Rugby League will hold it’s first ever Charity Round during the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":596185,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-596184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=596184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/596185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}