Seb's Foundation

Passionate about transforming young lives Seb’s Foundation was established in 2016 to foster hope and inclusion, by using the power and positivity of sport and education to remove barriers and enable young people from socially disadvantaged backgrounds to fulfil their ambitions and flourish. By providing scholarships, rugby training programmes, as well as workshops to develop mental health and self-esteem to young people who wouldn’t usually have access to them, our aspiration is to see them develop and thrive. Our aim is to provide opportunities, open new horizons and nurture aspirations that would otherwise have been closed to them and beyond their reach. Child poverty in the UK There were 4.3 million children living in poverty in the UK in 2019/20* In a classroom of 30 children, 9 were living in poverty** Children are the group of the population most likely to be in poverty*** Child poverty has been rising in both absolute and relative terms for nearly a decade*** Children in poverty have to fight harder for their futures. It has serious implications for their academic attainment, their social networks and their mental health. Our work is rooted in investing in those futures.