Guinness Premiership : News : Paul Sackey Visits Uxbridge school In Anti-Bullying initiative

London Wasps' winger Paul Sackey was at Tilehouse Combined School in Uxbridge on Friday 19th June in conjunction with ChildLine and Premier Rugby's Kicking Bullying Into Touch Tag Rugby Programme.

Sackey watched the tag rugby session involving 30 Year Three children run by the London Wasps Community Team, met the children, signed autographs and posed for photographs.

London Wasps and the other 11 Guinness Premiership clubs have teamed up with ChildLine, a service of the NSPCC, to help deliver a schools programme aimed at turning back the tide of bullying.

Esther Rantzen, Founder and President of ChildLine, said "It's wonderful that the clubs have been able to introduce the Kicking Bullying into Touch programme into their local schools. Bullying can devastate children's lives and it's vital that all children know bullying is wrong and how to get help if it happens to them."

To date, community managers from the Guinness Premiership clubs have introduced the programme to 135 schools. By the end of the two year pilot, they will have run the programme in 780 schools reaching 234,000 children with anti-bullying messages. Each child will receive an information card with anti-bullying messages from a player from each Premiership club.