What a year's worth of games looks like!

OK, another year has gone and we’ve taken a good look at where we’ve worked, for how long and how many people we have done it all with. After trawling through the numbers we unearthed a few hidden gems...

Let's start with the big numbers...

15,000 attendees and over 2,500 hours of demonstrations!

Yep - that many! Here's how...

In total last year we have worked with and demonstrated for around 15,000 people and have spent well over 2500 hours doing so. That’s an awful lot of time and a huge number of faces! Some of these have become regulars at our events whilst others we hear from only occasionally however one thing we are confident of is that everyone who has come along or joined in has had a great time and has seen games in a different light.   

• We have worked with more different organisations that ever before and these have included the usual schools, libraries, youth clubs, young offender institutes’s & prisons, and...
• On top of that - this year we seem to have done yet more festivals and events outside of education than we have ever done previously.
• The breadth of our appeal has expanded beyond formal education and has included work with the Children’s University, the University of the Third Age, Charities and the BBC.
• Whilst the popularity of our maths & literacy based Games Club Days has continued to soar, workshop-style activities such as Mad Scientist and Zombie Diary days have been a massive hit.
• We have used over 250 different games with people from as young as 3 to as old as we dare to ask!

A huge thank you to those that came along and said hi and to all of those companies out there that help us on our journey. These include the many game suppliers and distributors as well as the many head teachers, families and children that make all this possible.

If any of you can make it we are running the rather enormous Family Zone at this year’s UK Games Expo on the 30^th May & 1^st June and we are already booked in to libraries throughout the summer. We have regular monthly events at the IQ games centre in Huddersfield and this weekend we have some of you coming over there to help judge in our annual Imagination Gaming Family & Education Game Awards.

Last year was great and this year is shaping up to be even better. Hope to see you all soon and thank you all very sincerely.

Nigel & Chris.