With Teach a friend to read better
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.
Sarah Miles
International film star and author.
How I wish we'd had such a brilliant teaching-reading tool, when I was young and struggling with dyslexia!
Jilly Cooper,
Best-selling author:
Keep at it dearest Libby! With 'Teach a friend to read better' we'll get there in the end.
Russell Brand
Actor, activist, author, philosopher.
Stay connected, Libby! It will happen
David Walliams
Best-selling children's author.
What a great project! I wish you all the best. XL
Roy Crowne
HOPE Together Executive Director; previously the National Director of Youth for Christ in Britain.
Produced 'The Art of Connecting' a peer-to-peer evangelistic training course
HOPE Together is thrilled to be working with Teach a Friend to Read better to support prisoners learning to read. We love the vision to put the Teach a Friend to Read better guide into the hands of every inmate to ensure that no-one leaves prison unable to read. We are excited to be involved and hope to give a free copy of our book 40 Stories of Hope to everyone who completes the course.
Joe Baden OBE
Director and Founder Goldsmith's Open Book
Whatever help you need to get the Teach a friend to read better guide into the hands of every prisoner and member of prison staff just call on us all at Open Book. We will help in any way we can. We must ensure no-one leaves prison unable to read, and that prisoners lead the way in showing the world that we can end illiteracy when we work together.
Caroline Dinenage MP
Minister of State for Digital and Culture.
The Teach A Friend to Read better scheme facilitates peer-to-peer learning. The idea is that anyone who can read can use the tool to teach someone who cannot. The results are startling...Peer-to-peer learning is arguably the most effective way to boost skills among prisoners. It removes the barriers created by an uncomfortable classroom and teachers, whom the inmates often cannot relate to. (Reported in Hansard.)
Gillian Keegan MP
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Apprenticeships and Skills
I would like to wish the Teach A Friend to Read better scheme well and hope that it can continue to give prisoners the skills they need to become active participants in society on their release.
Erwin James
Chief Editor of Inside Time, Guardian journalist, trustee and patron of several prison and ex-offender charities, author of A Life Inside, The Home Stretch; Redeemable; former prisoner
The Teach a friend to read better project is a superlative initiative which enables those in prison who struggle with literacy to take part fully in their own rehabilitation. In prison self-help and peer support is the best help of all.
Julie Carty
former Prison Skills For Life Co-ordinator:
Peer-to-peer learning is the best possible way for people in prison to learn to read.
The Teach a friend to read better project will create so many confident new readers; and being a confident reader is a vital step in leading a law-abiding life. The guide is an incredibly powerful tool in supporting learners and it is so easy for reading-coaches to use. It is ideally suited to the prison environment.
Peter James
International best selling crime writer and prison reform campaigner.
It's Dead Simple! Give everyone a copy of the Teach a friend to read guide, and let's get reading done in Twenty-Twenty-One.
Minette Walters
International best selling crime writer and prison reform campaigner
How marvellous to find a system that works for both coaches and learners. The key to unlocking literacy is to make it simple.
This guide changes the lives of both learners and coaches.
The Reverend Jonathan Aitken
Prison Chaplain, author, campaigner for prison reform, CSJ Fellow , former Cabinet Minister, and prisoner.
We must pray for God’s help and guidance to bring our Teach a friend to read better mission to fruition.
