Success stories
What has Reading The Game achieved?
Listed below are some of the outputs that RTG has delivered since it was established in 2002. RTG has:
- Linked with over 50 football clubs from all leagues, in multiple projects, which use the motivational power of sport to encourage reading and literacy
- Helped create over 130 Reading Champions from the world of professional football to act as reading role models
- Helped over 12,000 children to choose and keep more than 30,000 free books
- Brought the benefits of storytelling, delivered by football role models, to nearly 30,000 children
- Created a football-based DVD designed to promote reading which has been provided free to all state schools and public libraries in England
- Produced reading promotion posters featuring football Reading Champions
- Created football-based literacy activities for practitioners
- Conducted numerous training sessions and workshops for a variety of practitioners across the country
Children successes:
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26Jul2011
A Big Society approach to literacy: involving community volunteers in RochdaleRochdale has developed a community literacy volunteering programme - Literacy Champions - which is making a real difference to outcomes for people and communities.
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08Jul2010
Turning a love of football into a love of readingHow we used the excitement surrounding the 2010 football World Cup to promote reading to disengaged children.
