Wednesday 9th May saw the Droglites (Old Tigers) play Worcester Past at Sixways Stadium. This fixture was arranged to help Worcester support the Walk4Matt 2012 and it was played after their staff game against a local teachers side....More

Our Aviva Premiership semi final game against Saracens was made special for the Foundation with Clare Lomas, Charlotte Wilkinson-Burnett and Henry Fraser attending the game as guests of Matt...More

Thom Evans the ex Glasgow Warriors and Scotland wing has announced his support for the Matt Hampson Foundation by becoming an Ambassador.
Thom was playing in his 10th international against Wales in February 2010 when he suffered a serious spinal injury. The injury ended a very promising career as Thom was forced to retire...More

The first annual Foundation Golf day took place on Weds 2nd May at Glen Gorse Golf Club in Leicestershire. The day was supported by Sturgess of Leicester and we would like to thank Chris Sturgess and Nichola Moore for their continued support of the Foundation...More

The Foundation is very proud of Clare Lomas who is walking the London Marathon in a specially designed set of Robotic legs which the Foundation helped fund...More

Louise Page and Alice King are taking part in the first day of Walk4Matt on the 19th of May. As part of their fundraising and charity awareness raising campaign they have been visiting local rugby clubs selling foundation wrist bands and badges...More

The Droglites came out on top 28-14 in the second annual Charity match against the Leicestershire Police in what was an entertaining game and afternoon for all the 1000 people who attended. With some stellar names on show the Drogs class showed and trys were scored by...More

Roy Jackson Chairman of Trustees of the Matt Hampson Foundation presented a cheque to the Saints Academy as part of the Northampton Saints Team's Fundraising Efforts for last year's Walk4Matt. Clare Garner and Lis Saunders will be taking part in their third walk this year...More

What a great night last night at the Glen Gorse Golf Club Sports Dinner on 23rd March 2012 with Matt Hampson & Geordan Murphy.

Everyone greatly enjoyed the evening and what an inspiration Matt should be to us all...More

On Sunday 15th April the 2nd annual Droglites (Old Tigers) play a Leicestershire Police XV at Oval Park in aid of the Matt Hampson Foundation. All are welcome and it should be a great day for all the family with a BBQ and other attractions including the chance to test your pass on in our new speed cage...More

Leicester Tigers welcomed hundreds of young players from across the country for the first ever Tigers Challenge, a new format of mini and junior rugby festival. The Matt Hampson Foundation was chosen as the charity for the event and we hope this is a relationship which will grow over the next few years. Hambo attended the presentation as did Foundstion Ambassador Freddie Tuilagi...More

The Devizes to Westminster International Canoe Race is held every Easter and is considered to be the racing canoeists Everest, the toughest race of its kind in the world. The event is 125 miles in length starting at Devizes, Wiltshire where it proceeds along the Kennet & Avon Canal for 54 miles (passing through Hungerford and Newbury) before joining the River Thames at Reading...More

Matt Hampson recently visited Hartpury College to speak to the students and staff about his story. The day was a great success and it saw Matt present to over 100 students and staff. Matt spoke about his inspirational story and the foundation he now works hard to raise money for to help people that are in a similar situation to him...More

On Friday 16th March David Cameron joined Matt Hampson, Oxfordshire Walk4Matt 2012 participants and local dignitaries at a very special tea party to celebrate the launch of Special Effect’s fundraising for this year’s Matt Hampson Foundation Walk4Matt...More

Katharine Bryce was the lucky winner of two LV Cup Final tickets to see her Club Leicester Tigers beat Northampton Saints in what was a fantastic local derby clash...More

I'm just emailing to say a massive thank you to the Matt Hampson Foundation for very generously funding my wheelchair racing training rollers. If I'd been told a month ago I'd have my own set of rollers in my living room I'd have laughed in disbelief but now thanks to yourselves I actually have!...More

Matt Hampson's story is featured on BBC Inside Out in the East Midlands, at 19:30 GMT on Monday 27 February.

On the wall of Matt Hampson's Leicestershire home are the Latin words "omnia causa fiunt" - "everything happens for a reason...More

520 people attended this year’s Matt Hampson Foundation Six Nations Dinner, at the Battersea Evolution, in south London, on Wednesday, February the 15th. The evening was hosted by England and Lions scrum-half turned skater Kyran Bracken...More

On 17th May 2012, the two intrepid cyclists will set off from Newcastle Falcons and over the following 10 days, steadily make their way South calling at each and every Aviva Premiership rugby ground before arriving at Twickenham in time for the Premiership Final on 26th May. The route takes them from Falcons to Twickenham stadium. More

Matt Hampson officially opened a new £10,000 children’s physiotherapy gym at The Leicester Royal Infirmary on 1st February.

The gym has been funded and equipped by Leicester's hospitals' charitable fund and the Women's Royal Voluntary Service...More

In the summer of 2011 I was living the dream. I had moved from my home in the midlands to go and live in America; working at a summer camp in the state of Rhode Island. I was just like any other 18 year old; living the life of luxury! I had just finished my A levels and was looking forward to going to university in September to start my ambition to become a doctor. More

The British Paralympic Association has named the first 10 GB table tennis players for the London 2012 Games.

The players have all qualified by right through regional championships and world ranking lists...More

On Friday 9 December 2011 at 1.30am, 39 year old Julian Evans, head of Knight Frank healthcare reached the South Pole. This now completes his double for the North and South Pole, a feat achieved by only approximately 100 others....More

On September 13th to the 17th, the British Open took place at the English Institute of Sport, Sheffield, which seen local boy Rob Davies of Brecon take Gold. Having attracted more than 340 elite para table tennis players from 44 nations across the globe, it is a rare...More

Fifty guests joined Rugby stars Graham Rowntree, Andy Goode, Harry Ellis, Will Skinner, Tom Rees and Matt Hampson for an intimate never to be forgotten dinner in the England Changing room at Twickenham...More

Matt talks, for the first time, to the young lad from Rwanda who the Foundation helped to repatriate with his family in France...More

J P Reiss's Gary O'Sullivan and Greg Collins both took it upon themselves to 'Grow a Mo for Hambo' during November and raised in the process in access of £2000...More

Pupils at Bringhurst Primary school (From left to right is Josh, Ben & Lewis. Bringhurst primary school) Josh, Ben and Lewis have been promoting the work of Matt and the Matt Hampson Foundation...More

Matt attended a 'night with Hambo' on the 6th December at Northampton Saints home Franklins Gardens. The evening organised by the Saints Walk4Matt team was well attended by their fellow Supporters and the guests enjoyed a Q and A with Hambo...More

A woman paralysed in a horse-riding accident is set to begin her training to walk next year's London Marathon wearing a "bionic" suit. Claire Lomas is three-quarters of the way towards her fund-raising target of £43,000 needed to buy a ReWalk suit. But the 30-year-old, of Eye Kettleby, near Melton, will be able to start her training next month...More

Leicester Tigers have teamed up with ABF The Soldiers’ Charity, Leicester Hospitals Charity’s Ourspace Appeal and the Matt Hampson Foundation as official club charities. The link with the three organisations was formally announced at Leicester’s home fixture with Northampton Saints on Saturday and Tigers welcomed representatives of all three charities to Welford Road for the game...More

Matt's book Engage written by Paul Kimmage narrowly lost out on the William Hill Sports Book of the Year to Ronny Reng whose book 'A life too Short: The Tragedy of Rober Enke took the prestigious title...More

Last Wednesday at the Battersea Evolution saw another memorable evening for the Matt Hampson Foundation, made even more special, as we shared the Dinner with Harry Ellis for his Testimonial year.
Harry is a great friend of Matt’s...More

The 2012 Matt Hampson Calendar has changed somewhat from our usual effort and no doubt will cause some distress to many ladies across Leicestershire! We took the decision to do a calendar featuring England players in action on the pitch to make it more appealing to a wider audience...More

RUGBY players from New York-based party company Amscan showed their caring side when they donated their winnings from an international tournament to the Matt Hampson Foundation...More

Matt Hampson gave a talk to over 200 students and staff at Grantham College on Monday, during the college’s ‘Week of Well-being’.The aim of the week was to encourage and promote positive steps to well-being and happiness, and speaker Matt Hampson played an integral part in that.... More

Matt visited Ashby school last week to receive a cheque for over £2500 for the Foundation. The pupils at the school led by Mr Ed Cooper staged a number of fundraising events last year from holding the World record for the largest ever scrum to a sponsored... More

Matt was the key note speaker at the Rosemary Conley franchisee convention and awards ceremony on Friday 14th October 2011. Rosemary personally invited Matt after recently reading his book Engage and having suppported him since his accident in 2005... More

Following the unfortunate news that PC David Rathband has had to pull out of officially opening Naidex South (London ExCeL 19th-20th October), the show organisers are delighted to announce an exciting new show opener has been confirmed! Former English rugby union prop Matt Hampson... More

More than 80 golfers swung their clubs for the cause at the Cottesmoore Hotel Golf & Country Club in West Sussex on September 16, at the event organised by Crawley based Clearwater People Solutions Ltd. Local companies sponsoring a hole included Basepoint, Cadia Gatwick Diamond Business Association, Huntress, and The Mileage Company... More

Julie Darwin a veteran of two walk4matt's won the Leicester Wheelchair Marathon race last Sunday cheered on by Hambo and Chairman of Trustees Roy Jackson who commented ' Julie is incredible she went flying past me at a rate of knots and it was fantastic... More

The Leicester Marathon took place this weekend and was again a huge success, the rain stayed away and over 2600 runners took to the streets in support... More

Matt's appearance on the pitch at half time during the Tigers v Saracens game gave the Leicester Fans something to cheer about and they gave him a tremendous welcome. Matt used the opportunity to thank all the supporters for their amazing and generous support... More

Austin Healey is one of 2600 runners taking part in this weekend's Leicester Marathon, the former Tigers and England star has entered the race with his wife and will be running the half marathon course. 'This is a great event for the city of Leicester and it seems to get bigger... More

We decided to climb Kilimanjaro at the beginning of this year and we decided as we were doing it anyway why not raise money in the process. We are big fans of Leicester Tigers and have been for several years now; we have sponsored several players... More

Matt visited the Eurogamer Expo at Earls Court last week to support charity SpecialEffect who were showcasing the advances the charity have made in designing and adapting technology to enable those with a disability or severe illness to be able to play video games... More

Matt attended the Hinckley beer festival last night. Story to follow...see some pictures... More

The Matt Hampson Foundation are delighted to be the joint benefitting charity along with Loros for the Annual Leicester marathon on Sunday 9th October. Read More

The Clearwater People Solutions Golf Day will be held again this year at Cottesmore Golf and Country Club. The event will be taking place on Friday the 16th of September 2011 and will once again be supporting the Matt Hampson Foundation. Read More

Matt held a book signing in the Final Whistle Bar at the Tigers v Exeter Chiefs game last weekend and it was a great success, all monies from the sales of these books go straight to the Foundation.
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Matt's book Engage written with Paul Kimmage was Number Six in the Sunday Times Bestseller list last weekend confirming it's status as a Bestseller!...
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The music in the meadows is a fantastic event, it was a shame that there was a bit of rain but it didn't put a dampener on the occasion. It was the seventh year that Rosemary Conley...Read More

Matt was visited by the RPA's David Barnes and Amanda Ewe last week to discuss a few joint projects and to catch up on Barnesy's trip to Kilamanjiro and the Royal Wedding he recently attended!...Read More

His hands look competent, resting there on the padded arms of his chair. His tanned arms seem strong; his shoulders broad. You might take Matt Hampson for the rugby player he once was. The inertness of the big man’s body isn’t obvious because all the animation is in his great round face. Read More

I went to Portland College on Thursday 21st July as I had been invited to attend their annual sports awards. I had a look on their website beforehand, and I knew it was a sports college for disabled pupils but I didn’t really know what to expect. When I arrived I was amazed. Read More

The Matt Hampson Foundation are pleased to inform you that Herve has arrived safely in Paris and is now in a Spinal unit within a French Hospital. More information to follow but to read about Herve's story.