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
Words for Work successes:
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25Apr2012
Words for Work inspires and motivates pupils at Bishop David Brown for three consecutive yearsWords for Work motivates and inspires secondary school pupils at Bishop David Brown school for three successive years
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30Jun2011
Words for Work at Brighton Aldridge Community AcademyA volunteer reports an emotional conclusion to a challenging Words for Work journey at Brighton Aldridge Community Academy (BACA)
