Hull charity Run With It announces 3-year partnership with Quickline to expand south of the Humber

An educational charity, that is seeing demand for support at an all-time high across Hull and East Yorkshire, is partnering with rural broadband provider Quickline Communications in a three-year deal that will help fund its expansion south of the Humber.

Run With It helps support learners who struggle to thrive in a traditional classroom setting by teaching them in exciting and inspiring environments like football stadiums, shopping centres and entertainment venues.

Currently working out of four sites north of the Humber, at Hull’s MKM stadium, Flemingate shopping centre in Beverley, Bridlington Town Football Club and Sewell Group Craven Park in East Hull, this new partnership means the charity can now expand its operations to cover Lincolnshire, including North and North East Lincolnshire.

Lisa Dawson, Director of Run With It, said:

“It’s always been our intention to grow the charity into new regions and create more opportunities for young people. Our partnership with Quickline will allow us to do exactly that. We’ll be providing our incredibly popular Enrichment Days alongside our 10-week intervention programmes with funding available to schools. We want to help improve literacy and numeracy across the board because that, in turn, improves key work-based skills, raises confidence and instills much-needed self-belief. We have had such a positive response from local partners in North and North East Lincolnshire, we can’t wait to get started.”

The charity will be working at various sites across Lincolnshire and has already forged links with partners at Humberside Airport including Hampton by Hilton and Eastern Airlines as well as Scunthorpe United and Grimsby Town’s community teams. Ms Dawson continued:

“While we pilot this programme, we will be working with existing organisations. I’m all about partnerships because far more young people will benefit. The funding from Quickline means we are bringing money to the region. We just need help introducing us to schools and educational groups, opening those doors so that as many young people as possible can access our programmes.”

Meanwhile, Rachel Bowerman from Quickline, who specialise in bringing broadband to hard-to-reach, rural communities across Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, said:

“At Quickline, we believe in creating opportunities that make a real difference to the communities we serve. Supporting Run With It aligns perfectly with our commitment to social value, as they bring innovative and exciting ways of learning to children. By taking education beyond the classroom, they’re inspiring young minds and unlocking potential, which resonates with our mission to connect people to a world of possibilities.”

Earlier this year Quickline was awarded a government contract under Project Gigabit to provide gigabit-capable broadband to 72,000 hard-to-reach premises across the East Riding of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. Project Gigabit is a government-funded programme enabling communities that would otherwise miss out on access to fast, reliable gigabit-capable broadband.

The collaboration with Run With It is part of an extensive social value programme the broadband provider has committed to as part of Project Gigabit.

The partnership also comes after a recent donation of £10,935 from the Funding Network which kickstarted the charity’s expansion across the Humber.

Photo (L-R) Run With It charity Director Lisa Dawson with Quickline’s Rachel Bowerman