Confident children, literate for life

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Confident children, literate for life

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Confident children, literate for life

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Volunteer Reading Help inspires generations to achieve their potential. We are a national charity, helping children who struggle with their reading to develop a love of reading and learning.

Would you like to help a child learn to read? Last year VRH helped over 5,000 children...

Almost one in five children left primary school last year having failed to reach the expected level in their English...

Volunteer Reading Help offers effective literacy support that is excellent value for money to help you reach your...

Since 1973 Volunteer Reading Help has been training and supporting volunteers to help transform the lives of...

What are they saying?

We find the service to be very good indeed. The young people who take part in the scheme get a lot out of it. It increases their confidence and commitment to learning. In some cases it has encouraged some of the young people to re-engage with education staff after being out for some time.
Teacher
Our volunteer is excellent, really good with the children and they really looked forward to the sessions each week. A general improvement has been seen in their attitude to reading as well as their academic ability. They approached SATS with confidence because of the extra help and have really benefitted.
Headteacher

Survey results

96%
of the children we helped showed improved confidence in reading!
Pupil survey results 2010
96%
of the children we helped showed an improved attitude to reading and an improvement in reading performance!
Pupil survey results 2010
96%
of the children we helped showed an improvement in overall achievement!
Pupil survey results 2010
94%
of the children we helped showed an improvement in general confidence
Pupil survey results 2010