Charitable Work
Dallaglio captained the Help for Heroes XV at a charity match in Twickenham. The side, which included former England Internationals Will Greenwood, Jason Robinson and former England Team Manager Martin Johnson, defeated the International XV led by former Wales captain Scott Gibbs. Dallaglio ended the match by kicking the final conversion, bringing the score to 29 - 10. In front of a 52,254 strong crowd at Twickenham the game raised funds approximately £1.3 million for Help for Heroes.
Following the success of his testimonial year Lawrence Dallaglio OBE set himself the challenge of raising half a million pounds for charity, and with lots of help and support from colleagues, friend and family the total ended up being well over a million, which was given away to a number of different causes.
This led to many more requests and Lawrence wanted to effectively manage his charitable efforts in a more formalised way. Then following the death of 'his rock', his mother Eileen, to cancer in 2008 Lawrence set up the Foundation in 2009.
When its inaugural event 8 Rocks 2009 raised over £600,000 Lawrence and all of those supporting him and the Foundation knew that this was the beginning of something big. Nearly three years on the Foundation has expanded significantly and has made £3million in total, supporting charities such as Help for Heroes, RPA Benevolent Fund, Leukaemia Research, DebRa, Cancer Research UK and many others. 2012 will see the launch the Foundation's brand new project – the Dallaglio Foundation Rugby Programme – which will change the lives of young people through rugby and see the Foundation move in a new direction whilst still maintaining a close relationship in the fight to beat cancer.
In the summer of 2008, he cycled 933 km across the Pyrenees as part of a team of 30 cyclists, raising £435,000 for Bliss, the special care baby charity. Starting out in Biarritz and finishing in Banyuls, he was joined by former rugby player Damian Hopley and ski expert Warren Smith
In February 2010, Dallaglio embarked on a gruelling cycle from Rome to Edinburgh during the RBS 6 Nations Championship to raise money for Sport Relief and the Dallaglio Foundation. The Dallaglio Cycle Slam took place over the course of a month, seeing a team, including former Arsenal FC and England football international Lee Dixon cycling through all of the RBS 6 Nations countries, taking in each of the international rugby stadia along the way. The aim was to raise £1 million, net proceeds of which were split equally between Sport Relief and the newly formed Dallaglio Foundation, whose beneficiaries include Cancer Research UK, DebRA, Leukaemia Research, Help for Heroes and the RPA Benevolent Fund.
In 2012 Lawrence Dallaglio joined forces with Andrew ‘Freddie’ Flintoff for the Dallaglio Flintoff Cycle Slam 2012. They were joined by Lee Dixon, Graeme Le Saux, and a number of other celebrities and members of the public in a bid to cycle from Olympia in Greece, covering 521 km to the Olympic stadium in Stratford, London. The Dallaglio Flintoff Cycle Slam 2012 aims to raise £2,012,000 for Cancer Research UK and Great Ormond Street Hospital via the Dallaglio Foundation and the AF Foundation with a portion of the money raised going to Virgin Unite, Virgin’s non-profit arm.
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