Simon Lewis-Pierpoint
Simon's Grand Day Out
Fundraising for Rugby League Cares
Story
Rugby League Cares is an independent charity that touches on the lives of people involved at every level of the sport.
We support players at the end of their careers, providing education and training grants that will equip them with the skills and qualifications needed for life after rugby.
RL Cares champions the sport’s heritage and is opening the sport’s first-ever National Museum of Rugby League within the iconic George Hotel in Huddersfield.
We promote mental fitness and healthy lifestyle initiatives that are changing and saving lives.
In 1895, rugby clubs on both sides of the Pennines took the momentous decision to break away from the RFU and form the Northern Union, a move that would lead to the creation of Rugby League.
125 years on, Rugby League Cares is celebrating that courage and foresight with a fundraising bike ride across hills that would still be very familiar to the game's founding fathers.
The UK Red Grand Day out takes place on Sunday September 27 and will be a day to remember!
Starting in Lancashire, we'll be making our way east to the White Rose county on country lanes and bridleways, tackling gradients of more than 20% as we pass through Marsden and on to Hebden Bridge.
From there, it's a short respite along the Rochdale canal to Todmorden before we cross the hills back into the land of the Red Rose and the town of Bacup. Then the route gets really tough as we cross the Pennines via the Cotton Famine Road, parts of which were built by 19th century millworkers who were supporting the slaves in America's Deep South during President Lincoln's slavery abolition campaign. Black Lives Matter was big in Rochdale 150 years ago...
Steel yourself for the toughest day you'll spend in the saddle all year!
The pain will be worth it because it's all for a very good cause.
RL Cares supports people across the wider Rugby League family, and has been extremely active during the Covid-19 pandemic advising and supporting the game's most important stakeholders, its players.
We support players at the end of their careers, providing education and training grants that will equip them with the skills and qualifications needed for life after rugby.
RL Cares champions the sport’s heritage and is opening the sport’s first-ever National Museum of Rugby League within the iconic George Hotel in Huddersfield.
We promote mental fitness and healthy lifestyle initiatives that are changing and saving lives.
In 1895, rugby clubs on both sides of the Pennines took the momentous decision to break away from the RFU and form the Northern Union, a move that would lead to the creation of Rugby League.
125 years on, Rugby League Cares is celebrating that courage and foresight with a fundraising bike ride across hills that would still be very familiar to the game's founding fathers.
The UK Red Grand Day out takes place on Sunday September 27 and will be a day to remember!
Starting in Lancashire, we'll be making our way east to the White Rose county on country lanes and bridleways, tackling gradients of more than 20% as we pass through Marsden and on to Hebden Bridge.
From there, it's a short respite along the Rochdale canal to Todmorden before we cross the hills back into the land of the Red Rose and the town of Bacup. Then the route gets really tough as we cross the Pennines via the Cotton Famine Road, parts of which were built by 19th century millworkers who were supporting the slaves in America's Deep South during President Lincoln's slavery abolition campaign. Black Lives Matter was big in Rochdale 150 years ago...
Steel yourself for the toughest day you'll spend in the saddle all year!
The pain will be worth it because it's all for a very good cause.
RL Cares supports people across the wider Rugby League family, and has been extremely active during the Covid-19 pandemic advising and supporting the game's most important stakeholders, its players.