This Foundation aims to improve mental well-being, foster youth empowerment, and promote physical well-being through sports and education, principally through its NSPiRED programme. Organisations that are interested in joining the programme are invited to contact the Foundation. The Foundation is not a grant-making organisation.
The Jonny Wilkinson Foundation was founded in 2015 following Wilkinson’s retirement from professional rugby union. Its aim is to support people to realise their full potential and live the lives they wish to live. The journey it champions is one that transforms performance, leadership, and relationships through exploring and enhancing mental, emotional, and physical health and wellbeing through its NSPiRED Programme. NSPiRED is funded by The Jonny Wilkinson Foundation - participating groups and individuals are not required to contribute financially.
The programme helps support those holding influential positions in education, such as teachers, community leaders and sports coaches, to become aware of and consciously transcend their limitations, thus enabling the young people they interact with to do the same.
The programme’s key objectives include:
- Supporting mental and physical wellbeing initiatives through awareness campaigns and workshops.
- Providing support to develop communities of individual who have completed the NSPiRED programme to enable self-help for their peers and those they teach and lead in their own environments,
- Offering mentorship opportunities for participants to develop life skills and build self-confidence to positively influence.
Please note that the Foundation isn’t a grant-making charity. It aims to build a community of NSPiRED participants with a shared ambition of unlocking and liberating their own potential and that of young people.
Organisations that would be interested in hearing more about the NSPiRED experience or think they might like to participate in a future event, are invited to get in touch with the Foundation through its NSPiRED website.