LV is the UK's largest friendly society with approximately 1.1 million members. Liverpool Victoria Friendly Society Limited was founded in 1843 as a burial society, and for many decades Liverpool Victoria was most commonly associated with "penny policies" collected door to door by a cross country team of agents to provide a method of saving to people of modest means. Today LV= expresses its mission as enabling people to "look after what they love" by the provision of insurance, investment and retirement solutions.
The Rugby Players' Association is a trade union representing athletes who currently play or have played rugby union in England at a professional or semi-professional level. Established in 1998, it was originally called the Professional Rugby Players' Association ; in October 2009 it changed its name and expanded its membership. It is intended to protect and promote the needs of players as well as more generally to advance rugby union.