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.
Julia Killick CBE
Last Governor of HMP Holloway; board member of the Prison Reform Trust,
Liberty Kitchen and Step Together Volunteering
I am a huge fan of the project, which offered us an excellent, and most importantly, a flexible resource to help Holloway women to read and write. We had a very transient and diverse population, comprising many nationalities and reading abilities. Teach a friend to read enabled our women readers to coach others - without the need for training. Above all, it allowed the new reader to continue learning to read after release or after moving to another prison.
So the interactive guide was a God-send after Holloway closed.
This is a most powerful tool that encourages desistance from offending, and is key to all Prison Governors' aims.
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
Tatiana Wilson
Founder of www.peoplesbookprize.com
Frankie Owens
Award-winning author of the Little Book of Prisons and former prisoner
Whilst in prison I attempted to help prisoners through a reading scheme but it was too difficult to deliver. Teach a friend to read would have been perfect as the coach and learner are self-contained and independent. It can be delivered on the wing, and a new coach can seamlessly take over the teaching if necessary. I now teach a service user from Portsmouth probation with Teach a friend to read. It is an amazing experience giving the gift of reading and changing lives.