Recent RRCP Awards
Reading Rotary Club is pleased to announce the following RRCP Award applications have been granted
ABC to Read (£1000)
An award of £1,000 from Reading Rotary would enable ABC to Read to recruit, train, and support five new volunteers.
These volunteers would each provide one-to-one reading support to three children, meaning 15 struggling young readers in Reading would directly benefit from improved literacy skills and increased confidence.
The funding would cover:
- Recruitment and safeguarding checks for new volunteers
- Initial and ongoing training to ensure volunteers are equipped to support children effectively
- Resources such as books and literacy materials to use in sessions
- Fieldworker support to ensure volunteers are well-placed, trained, and supported throughout their time with us.
Hope Counselling Service (£500)
Hope is a counselling service offering help and support to adults experiencing issues such as anxiety, depression, relationship difficulties, bereavement, or other problems.
Hope provides affordable counselling for those unable to afford private fees.
A donation of £500 would provide money towards purchase of a laptop and back up hard drive needed for the office, and to set up a bursary fund.
3rd Reading Boys Brigade (£500)
3rd Reading Boys Brigade have qualified for the finals of the Boys Brigade ‘5 a Side’ finals to be held in Northern Ireland.
The Boys Brigade would like to take 10 boys aged 11-14 and 3 leaders to the event, without having to pass on the costs to the families.
Thumbs Up Club (£1,000)
This is an Activity Club for children with special needs. They provide activities outside school hours and over school holiday periods.
Currently they are helping 90 children and their families from the Woodley, Reading and local areas, and have 42 on the waiting list.
This money would subsidise 10 families over the holiday period.
We have also received the following thank you letters
We have had a thank you letter, which is attached. They have advised that they will produce a report in a year’s time to confirm how this funding was spent and the difference it made to children recovering from domestic abuse.
They have also advised that they would love to have a group from Reading Rotary visit their community café. It runs from 10am-12pm on Thursday mornings.
We have had some thanks from look Draw Build . I attach an RCS Newsletter Special covering Look Draw Build@Reading and Bristol Stations. It follows completion of the Reading leg of the project and leads into the Bristol leg in late April to June.
The exhibition in the Oracle Shopping Centre on 29 March was successful. They were visited by most of the station builders. Feedback from their parents was very much about how it engaged the kid’s interest, even those who usually don’t tell their parents about anything they do in class.
They have advised that they will do a specific report for the Rotary Club of Reading in due course, but hopefully this gives a feel of what is going on.