Gareth Walker
@garethwalker
Sports writer. Founder of @LiteracyKicks
📰 | NEWS: Primary school children in Liverpool get a helping hand with literacy project from two-time world champion Natasha Jonas MBE as part of social programme linked to World Boxing Championships 2025 Full story below. @RealWorldBoxing | @literacykicks | @TashaJonas
Really sad news. A genuine rugby league legend and the voice of the sport for so many. But also a man who had time for everybody. Thoughts with his family and many friends
Sad news Ray French MBE, the former St Helens, Widnes and Great Britain international & for many years the voice of rugby league on the BBC passed away earlier today. Ray, who has been suffering from dementia in recent years, was 85. Thoughts are with Ray’s family 💔
2024/25 school year ✅ Since September we have worked with over 4,000 pupils in 72 schools, running six-week writing programmes, projects with Rounders England and the World Boxing Championships and inviting sporting icons into classrooms. Much more to come in 25/26 ✍️📰
Whitworth Whistle 📰 🗞️ Fresh off the printer and ready for release tomorrow. Thank you to @@literacykicks @garethwalker for all the support. 👍
Last week marked the end of our project with the World Boxing Championships ahead of their event in Liverpool in Sept. Over two months, 16 primary schools, 40 classes and 1,200 children took part, learning about famous Liverpool boxers and creating their own newspaper articles
📺 Literacy Kicks on TV 📺 Our social impact programme to improve literacy skills across Liverpool, in partnership with the World Boxing Championships, featured on ITV Granada News tonight after two-time world champion Natasha Jonas joined us in class ✍️📰🥊
“It was brilliant to see first-hand how the Literacy Kicks programme is using boxing and the World Championships in Liverpool to help school-aged children with reading and writing.” Two time world champion Natasha Jonas on the impact of Literacy Kicks liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/boxing/n…
It was absolutely brilliant to be joined in class by @TashaJonas at Our Lady’s Bishop Eton Primary yesterday, sharing the experiences of her boxing career including two world titles, as pupils wrote newspaper articles on the strong links between the sport and Liverpool 🥊✍️📰
Thank you so much to @literacykicks for the generous donation of sport-related books for our school library. This is a ‘thanks’ for supporting them from the start! We can’t wait to read them! @K2EPH
𝘽𝙖𝙘𝙠 𝙩𝙤 𝙨𝙘𝙝𝙤𝙤𝙡! 📚🥊 Earlier today, @TashaJonas visited Our Lady's Bishop Eton Primary School in Liverpool to support the @literacykicks project as part of the Social Impact Programme connected to the World Boxing Championships 2025 taking place later this year! 🔜
It was fantastic to return to Christ the King Southport for a fourth year earlier this week, working with Years 7, 8 and 9 on sports journalism writing tasks ✍️📰
💯up! This week Literacy Kicks visited its 100th school. In our three years we've delivered six-week writing programmes; worked with professional clubs, sporting legends and governing bodies; donated books; launched school newspapers; sponsored a grassroots team and won an award
The 84-page Challenge Cup final programme is now at the printers, and along with detailed previews of the three big matches from leading RL writers, there’s also a look back at two notable Wembley anniversaries and a brilliant piece on Roy Francis. Copies: curtis-sport.com/all-programmes…
We are very excited to be partnering with @PE_ProApp on a number of exciting projects that will benefit schools we both work with. More information to come soon
We had an amazing time yesterday down at St John the Baptist CP School filming some great content for our September update!!! See how you can start your free trial with PE PRO today by visiting-peproapp.com
Thank you for being part of the launch, Gareth! Your work has been key in driving the educational side of the project and giving rounders the spotlight it truly deserves. 👏⚾️📝 #Rounders #LiteracyKicks
We’re all set up at the launch of the documentary ‘Rounders: Britain’s Best Sporting Secret’ following our schools project with @RoundersEngland, which saw 1,200 primary school children learn and write about the rich history and exciting future of the sport ⚾️ ✍️ 📰
Over 1,200 school kids, 300 years of rounders history, and a project that hit the mark! ⚾️📰 We teamed up with @LiteracyKicks on Rounders:Reconnected, bringing sport + storytelling to life - thanks to funding from @HeritageFundUK. 📖 Read the full story: bit.ly/RoundersHerita…
It was a privilege to last week be joined by Kevin Sinfield at Greenfield Primary school, where he answered questions from pupils and looked at articles they had produced on his friendship with Rob Burrow and phenomenal fund raising feats ✍️ 📰 🏃♂️ 🏉
Today is the end of a term that has seen Literacy Kicks run sports journalism sessions at 28 schools for over 1,500 pupils - delivering one-off workshops, six-week programmes and donating reading books. We can’t wait to start it all again after Easter ✍️📰
Fantastic to hear Rochdale MP @paulwaugh discuss our excellent start to the Betfred League 1 season and our off-field efforts to promote rugby league in the community in the House of Commons this morning 💙🐝 Thank you for your support! 👏 @RochdaleCouncil
Bravo to all involved @literacykicks and @RoundersEngland in this amazing project made possible thanks to #NationalLottery players 👏 Fantastic to see so many pupils getting involved in exploring sporting heritage ⚾️
This week marked the end of our project with @RoundersEngland. This term 1,200 pupils at 20 primary schools have looked at the past, present and future of the sport and written their own newspaper articles. It’s been a fantastic programme to be involved in ✍️📰⚾️ @HeritageFundNOR