Meet the Reading FC Community Trust
Launched in 1992, the Community Trust exists to help and increase participation levels within young people in the local and surrounding communities of Reading, delivering activities to develop and educate people around either local or national issues – obesity, drug awareness, sexual health, alcohol abuse, racism, anti-social behaviour, truancy etc.
Within the Thames Valley area of the Pluggin Marketplace, the Community Trust is being supported to establish Impact Collaborations with business suppliers to: Thames Valley's police, councils, and fire & rescue, NHS and criminal justice services. Social value being channelled into the Community Trust as a sustainable resource for THREE key activities already making impact which is helping build healthier, safer and more resilient Thames Valley communities.
Thames Valley Suppliers and Social Value
Social value from the region's suppliers is being harnessed within public contracting, to support THREE established provisions already delivering community impact in support of the Thames Valley Police & Crime Plan.
Kicks
Support the Kicks mission ‘To target some of the most disadvantaged areas in order to create safer, stronger, more respectful communities through the development of young people’.
Inspires
Support the Inspires mission to empower participants to develop personal, social, employability and life-skills, through a series of regular group sessions, mentoring, workshops and social-action projects.
RAP
Support the Reading Alternative Provision (RAP) setting at Reading FC’s Madejski Stadium Dome complex, supporting students back into mainstream schooling and lowering school exclusions.
Business Supporter Benefits...
In establishing an Impact Collaboration with the Community Trust, businesses are automatically meeting their own objectives within public contracting.
Strategically Aligned
The Community Trust has a long-established link to and strategic association with the community health, safety and resilience priorities mapped out within the Police & Crime Plan.
This means that any business supporting the Community Trust -who supplies into the region's public bodies - is delivering social value already aligned to these priorities.
Joint Marketing
Impact storytelling sits central to the communities engagement mission of the DICM marketplace; helping residents see real impact as it evolves within communities.
By supporting the Community Trust, businesses can collaborate for impact storytelling which generates powerful digital content for contract reviews with buyers and brand impact marketing.
Trust impact insights and updates...
See for yourself how the Community Trust is making positive impact upon the Thames Valley strategic objectives of healthier, safer and more resilient communities.
