Helping Adults To Read

South and East Wiltshire Read Easy is a volunteer-led adult literacy charity that provides free, confidential, one-to-one coaching to people who cannot read.

Affiliated to the national charity Read Easy UK, the local group was set up two years ago and currently has 15 Readers on its books ranging in age from 25 to 79.

The area covered ranges from Marlborough in the north to Fordingbridge in the south. Sessions can be offered face-to-face but also online if travelling is a problem. Readers are required to complete two half-hour sessions a week.

Positions Available

Several roles are vacant within the local group and it urgently needs more Coaches in all areas, including Amesbury, to match up with Readers, preferably during daytime hours.

As a Coach you do not need to be a teacher because the Turning Pages reading programme (published by the charity Shannon Trust) is used as a coaching tool.

Other roles the group needs to fill include a Coordinator. This is a crucial position because Coordinators' main responsibility is supporting the Readers and their Coaches. They need to have good people skills and organisational abilities.

A Coordinator Supporter, who provides oversight and support for the Coordinators, is also needed.

In addition, the group is looking for a Literacy Specialist to provide advice to Coaches and Coordinators; a Referrals Networker to make and maintain contact with agencies that may be able to refer adults who would like to read; a Fundraiser; and a Social Media Organiser to work with the current Publicity Organiser.

If you are interested in any of these roles please get in touch:

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Posted by: Dickie Bellringer
South and East Wiltshire Read Easy
24 April, 2024