Read Easy supports adults wanting to learn to read or to improve their reading skills, by offering free, confidential, 1-1 coaching at a pace suitable for each individual.
Helping adults learn to read isn’t just about enabling them to enjoy a good book. It is so much more.
By improving their literacy, Read Easy also helps our readers to improve their employment opportunities as well as their ability to support their families, allowing some to take their first steps out of poverty.
By enabling parents (and grandparents) to read to their children and support their education, it can often help break the inter-generational cycle of literacy difficulties.
Everyday tasks such as paying household bills, using a cash point machine, reading the instructions on a medicine bottle and doing the weekly shop are no longer overwhelmingly challenging.
Learning to read also hugely increases a person’s confidence and can enable them to take a much more active part in their communities and society as a whole.
Read Easy UK (REUK)recruits volunteer Pioneers to help establish new groups across English regions. A group of volunteers is then recruited to run the day-to-day operation of the group supported by a Regional Adviser. The group recruits Reading Coaches who are trained by REUK, who are then paired with a Reader. They meet twice a week in a local venue to work through a recognised scheme at the Reader's own pace. They continue working until the Reader feels confident enough with their reading skills to move on.
