We are in the early stages of developing the optimal model. It has shown encouraging impact, however we already can see significant ways we can expand, grow, innovate and improve all the programs..


Data collection and analysis are a core part of the charity. We have already run 3 impact reports, and plan for on-going, continual assessment.

Rackets Cubed published our first Independent Impact Evaluation Report. It looked at Wellbeing, confidence, resilience, concentration and academic & sporting engagement of the programs and was conducted by the University of Roehampton.

We have subsequently worked with Fitmedia, and published a range of Physical Literacy and Well-Being reports over the last 3 years.

Often it is the personal impact stories that resonate better with us than the "hard data". In reality we look to capture both whilst being sensitive to the needs of the Communities that we operate in.

We provide consent approved videos, write ups and social media posts where appropriate.

This is an area that we hope to develop further over the next 6 to 12 months

We partner with primary schools in areas of high disadvantage eg in a representative London program we have 50+% children eligible for free school meals, 80% BME, many different ethnic groups and c. 75% having English as a second languages. .

Our partner schools carefully select the participants on their assessment of who will benefit most from the programs.

To date we have observed that we have slightly more girls and higher percentage of children on Free School Meals.

In 2018, Rackets Cubed began a year long educational and physical activity intervention project for selected pupils from Sacred Heart Primary School. The testing was then repeated in March 2019 (“Test 2”). Fitmedia then analyzed the scores from the tests using its unique benchmarking system.

This baseline testing comprised the following:

• Standing Long Jump – to test the children’s lower body strength
• Illinois Agility Run – to test the children's speed, coordination and agility
• Handgrip test - to test the children's upper body strength.

Rackets Cubed published our first Independent Impact Evaluation Report., conducted by the University of Roehampton. The period covered all 4 London programs (Hosted at the National Tennis Centre, The Reed's School, the Roehampton club and Roehampton University), and ran from September 2018 to March 2019.

We have subsequently worked with Fitmedia, and published a range of Physical Literacy and Well-Being reports over the last 3 years.

This also includes some specific work around the Impact of COVID and the various forms of lock down.

Schools, Teachers and Coaches are very much the front line of the interactions. They regularly give us new ideas and ways to improve. We aim to pilot various initiatives and then spread best practice across all the programs


2020 has taught us that everyone has to adapt and innovate in this new world.

We worked closely with the Schools and Teachers to evaluate the best way to continue operating, and it was through these discussions that the Community Box and COVID Recovery programs were created.

In all the programs we have found it extremely helpful to have review with the parents and children to see how they felt it went, and in particular what went well and what could be improved.

Early on this moved us to hot meal provision where it was possible, and the use of cardio-games eg Dodge ball at the start of the programs.

This feedback is always run in conjunction with the schools

Often it is the personal impact stories that resonate better with us, than the core data. In reality we look to capture both whilst being sensitive to the needs of the Communities that we operate in.

We provide consent approved videos, write ups and social media posts where appropriate. This is an area that we hope to develop further over the next 6 to 12 months

The highlights we observed in the period were

Lock Down had had a major negative impaction the children – agility, weight & confidence Children really missed activity

Many had done none in lock down

Across the 70 children and 6 weeks we observed a marked improvement in agility and confidence to do activity outside of school


The Schools act as important points of structure and activity for many children, and have a good understanding of their needs. The impact we observed was a reflection of a broad range of initiatives the schools often ran in that summer term.

We are now running a Well Being and Physical literacy assessment across 7 schools in 4 cities.

Many of the children in the current years 3 to 6 will have done very limited activity since the first lock down in March.

We have seen or been report of quite significant drops in agility, with gain and some negative food habits eg desire to snack on comfort foods.