Chris Andrew created Project Touchline in 2015.

The aim was to pioneer physical education and sport through Collective Worship and with Christian Values. We seek to connect and draw closer to God – church schools, students, parents and staff as well as the local church. We aspire to connect everyone together and make life more wholesome and with meaning, to ‘live life in all its fullness’ – John 10.10. We have grown each year and have now worked with over 130 church schools across England and Wales. Project Touchline has extended its reach beyond the classroom. It is not only working with various Church of England and Church in Wales dioceses, it has started international partnerships, with the Anglican Diocese of Mumias in Kenya. Our impact is now not just local but global, promoting Christian values and faith through sports. 

Chris Andrew – Founder and Director 

Chis has over twenty years experience in primary and secondary education and holds UKCC Level 2 qualifications in Rugby Union and Cricket coaching. His has significant experience in sports education working at the Bath Rugby Education Centre between 2005 and 2011. This award winning centre, which was part of the UK Government’s “Playing for Success” program, focused on educational study support through rugby. In 2011, he then founded Roaring Rugby, which specialised in rugby coaching, working with over five hundred parents, thirty primary schools, and thirteen rugby clubs and employing over twenty-five staff. In 2016, Chris was admitted and licensed in the Diocese of Gloucester, Church of England as a Reader/Lay Minister. In 2019, he was commissioned as an Archbishops’ Evangelist at Lambeth Palace, London, which signifies his deep involvement in the Anglican Church’s evangelistic efforts.

Project Touchline is a truly groundbreaking and transformational initiative which blends sports coaching expertise with Christian spirituality and RE teaching through Collective Worship in Church schools. Our unique programme teaches Christian values through sports in primary and secondary schools and shows children how to live them out for real in action. In sport and in their lives.

Project Touchline has developed over twenty years, through knowledge, experience and skills and can illustrate a clear progression from educational sports coaching to integrating faith and spirituality into sports education, culminating in the formation of the legacy programme we offer schools and churches today.

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