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Hearts and Balls

Scottish charity

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ5692972 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Hearts and Balls Charitable Trust, sometimes stylized as Heart+Balls is a Scottish registered charity.

The charity was founded in 1999 following a spinal injury suffered by Struan Kerr-Liddell of the Lismore Rugby Club, and exists to support rugby players and their families in the aftermath of serious injury on the field.

As of 2022, Hearts+Balls had provided over £700,000 in aid.

Rugby Sevens

They enter a men’s and women's sevens side into many Sevens tournaments around Scotland, England and Dubai. They usually denote the side as HBMB7 - or Hearts and Balls MB 7s.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Hearts and Balls” as scottish charity. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1999, 2022—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1999. The account is most persuasive where Hearts, Balls and Scottish can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as scottish charity. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5692972. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1999 and 2022.

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This entry incorporates text from “Hearts and Balls” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.