Putting Reading on the Map sponsored by Jacobs and the Purple Turtle
Recognising a group, business or individual who by their commitment and dedication, will have raised the profile of our fantastic town in a positive and influential light regionally, nationally or internationally.
Show Your Stripes – University of Reading and Reading FC
The collaboration between the university and football club to highlight the threat of climate change won headlines when ‘climate stripes’ on Reading’s shirts were explained to millions watching the team’s FA Cup clash with Manchester United on ITV in January.
The university’s Professor Ed Hawkins designed the stripes and the club added them to their kit, which has helped win world-wide recognition for the campaign which aims to graphically represent the shocking extent of global warming.
