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

Young Readers Programme successes:

• 31Aug2011
  Our reading project reaches over 8000 children in disadvantaged communities

  Our Young Readers Programme helps children and young people in areas of disadvantage to acquire the skills they need to develop as a reader. This year we've reached over 8000 children.

• 24Feb2011
  Reading project encourages library membership

  Over the past few years we have piloted a new way of working through libraries in order to encourage more disadvantaged children and young people to read for pleasure.