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The Rugby Football League Limited

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Official record Companies House · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

Previous officers 29

  1. Abi Ekoku 2025-2026 Director View profile
  2. Joanna Coates 2025-2026 Director View profile
  3. Robert Graham 2025-2026 Director View profile
  4. Julia Jane Newton 2024-2025 Director View profile
  5. Antony Nigel Sutton 2023-2025 Director View profile
  6. Dr Cherrie Ann Daley 2022-2025 Director View profile
  7. Rimla Akhtar 2019-2023 Director View profile
  8. Sandra Lindsay 2019-2025 Director View profile
  9. Christopher John Hurst 2018-2022 Director View profile
  10. Karen Elizabeth Moorhouse 2018-2022 Director View profile
  11. Roger James Draper 2016-2018 Director View profile
  12. Christopher Charles Brindley MBE 2016-2022 Director View profile
  13. Simon Harris Johnson 2014-2025 Director View profile
  14. Ralph William James Rimmer 2013-2022 Director View profile
  15. Brian Robert Barwick 2013-2019 Director View profile
  16. Susan Winfred Allan 2012-2013 Director View profile
  17. Clare Morrow 2008-2018 Director View profile
  18. Robert Winston Stott 2007-2015 Director View profile
  19. Anthony Gartland 2005-2007 Director View profile
  20. Ian Francis Edwards 2005-2008 Director View profile
  21. Edward Maurice Watkins CBE 2005-2014 Director View profile
  22. Richard Alan Lewis 2005-2012 Director View profile
  23. Peter Haworth 2000-2000 Director View profile
  24. Sir Rodney Myerscough Walker 1999-2002 Director View profile
  25. Dr John Neil Tunnicliffe 1999-2000 Director View profile
  26. Robert Kenneth Hicks 2023-2025 Secretary View profile
  27. Karen Elizabeth Moorhouse 2016-2022 Secretary View profile
  28. Susan Winifred Allan 2002-2016 Secretary View profile
  29. Peter David Webster 1999-2002 Secretary View profile

Directors and secretaries as filed at Companies House.

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About

What it does
Other sports activities
Incorporated
21/09/1999
Registered office
Manchester

Financials

Net assets
-£3,433,932
Total assets
£923,774
Cash
£5,274,782
Employees
101
Turnover
£13,369,468
Profit/loss
-£403,261

Figures from accounts filed at Companies House (iXBRL), period ending 2024-12-31. Where turnover is absent, small and micro-entity accounts are not required to report it, so it is not shown as zero.

Grants received

75 grants · £92,324,191 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

  • Sport England · £76,508,030 (52 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £10,546,470 (15 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport · £1,988,258 (2 grants)
  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport · £1,862,415 (4 grants)
  • Department for Culture, Media and Sport · £1,419,018 (2 grants)

Most recent

Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from the Companies House officer record and Charity Commission trustee records - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Companies House officer record: the current directors only, past directors excluded.

7 directors on the board

4.3y median 1.3y
average tenure
24.2y
longest tenure

Directors past 6 years

First-time vs portfolio directors

Portfolio (7)

Also govern a charity

Left in the last 12 months

Where else this board sits iWhere else this board sitsThe charitable fields these directors govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this company and any charity it is the legal face of.

Arts and leisure 15Finance 3Education 2Health and social care 2Professional services 2Business services 1Construction 1Other services 1

The sectors these directors govern in elsewhere. This company, and any charity it is the legal face of, are excluded - counting them would just tell you what you are already looking at.

Sources

Official record from Companies House. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Company number
03845473
Status
Active
Type
Private Limited Company
Accounts next due
30/09/2027
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
Official record from Companies House · Calculated derived by Governance Register.

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