With the Teach a friend to read guide
end illiteracy in your prisons and community!
The Campaign Champions
Champions support and promote the mission of helping everyone who can
read to teach all those who struggle with reading.
Champions support and promote the mission of helping everyone who can
read to teach all those who struggle with reading.
Sarah Miles - international film, theatre and tv actress, author and spiritual healer.
Her Excellency Mrs Fatima Maada Bio,
First Lady of Sierra Leone aims to make Sierra Leone the first Commonwealth country to eliminate illiteracy, with the help of
Teach a friend to read.

Duncan Nzangi,
CEO of Light of Hope Youth Initiative International
in Machakos County Kenya

Her Excellency
Dorothy Kamwilu,
Education Attache Kenyan
High Commission London
David Walliams
actor, comedian, bestselling writer and television personality

Minette Walters
International best selling
queen of psychological thriller
and prison reform campaigner
Russell Brand
comedian, actor, radio host, writer and activist.

The Rt. Hon. Caroline Dinenage Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Women, Equalities and Family Justice

Peter James
International best selling author

Jilly Cooper O.B.E
International bestselling
adult and children’s author

Jonathan Aitken
An author, former MP, former Cabinet Minister & former prisoner. He is a well known and highly respected campaigner for prison reform and a CSJ Fellow

Paddy Richardson
Award-winning, New Zealand psychological thriller writer
The Rev'd Dr Anthony Michael Moore
Vicar of St Margaret's of Antioch, Rottingdean

Val McDermid
celebrated, international best selling Scottish crime writer

Erwin James,
Chief Editor of Inside Time, journalist, trustee and patron of several prison and ex-offender charities, author of
A Life Inside, The Home Stretch; Redeemable.

Roger Tucker
Film & TV director
Hollyoaks, Lovejoy,
Soldier Soldier



Nick Dry
Head Teacher, St Nicholas Community Primary Special School
The Reverend Father Martin Morgan, Anglican Priest, author & comedy script writer


Julia Killick CBE Ret. Governor
Her Majesty’s Prison and Young Offenders institution, Holloway

Damien Jordan
Headteacher Fairlight Primary School

Miriam Mason-Sesay MBE
Co-founder and
Country Director EducAid Sierra Leone

Victoria Aseervatham
Commissioner for Rough sleepers
& homelessness services for
The City of Westminster

Tracey Edwards,
Literacy and Special Needs campaigner

Daniel Frampton,
Literacy campaigner & volunteer for
We CAN read, Gosport
and Fareham

Dr Gordon Ade-Ojo
Network and Partnership Coordinator,
Dpt.of Secondary Education, Language and Literacy Education,
University of Greenwich.

Andy Paradise
RAF Veteran and
Founder of Read and Grow

Alina Madadi
Hawaiian English teacher and literacy champion.

Chris Orman
Founder of
The Bouncing Ball Trust

Ian Brodigan
Printer and Literacy Campaigner

Linda Curtiss and Una Sadler
Founders of
We CAN Read, Gosport UK

Beth Thomas-Hancock
Volunteering and Mentoring Manager
Active Student Volunteering Service
University of Brighton

Jo Tew
Assistant Director in Film and Television

Steve O'Brien
Chief Executive Officer at Dyslexia Foundation

Jules Ward
Community Engagement Worker
Gosport Voluntary Action

Hassan Kamara
Chairman of
All Works of Life Sierra Leone

BK Duncan
Change management consultant
and author

Ange Tyler
Chief Executive Capital Talent & Griffin School Trust
