Read Easy Needs You!

Are you passionate about adult literacy?

Read Easy UK is a registered national charity that help adults learn to read. There are approximately 5 million UK adults with reading and writing skills below that expected of 11 year olds (Skills for Life Survey 2011). Read Easy provides free, 1:1 and confidential coaching to those in need of help with reading skills.

We are now urgently seeking volunteers in the Torridge, Tavistock/Okehampton and Exeter areas for the following vacancies:

a Coordinator to enrol and assess new readers, match them with coaches and support them both through the reading journey.
a Literacy Specialist to support and advise with specific literacy queries, to create and maintain a “resources box” and to provide ad hoc help to the current Coordinator.
an Administrator to promote the work of Read Easy locally, arrange venues and provide general support to readers.
Coaches to work directly with people in need of help with their literacy skills.

What will you get out of it?

You’ll:

meet and work collaboratively with new people;
be active and engaged, adding value to your community;
positively help change lives and open up new possibilities for people.

Do you have:

Good communication and people skills?
Time, energy and enthusiasm (approximately three hours each week)?
Training and/or experience of teaching literacy, preferably to adults?
Knowledge of a range of teaching resources available to adults, or are willing to research them?
A commitment to improving the lives of people who struggle to read?

If you feel you can help, please call Read Easy Exeter’s Volunteer Recruiter on 07486 858012 or email exeterrecruiter@readeasy.org.uk. We are looking forward to hearing from you.

More information is available on our website: https://readeasy.org.uk/groups/exeter/