Community Notices
Read With Me is looking for volunteers.
Read With Me provides volunteers to hear children read in Gloucestershire’s schools.
Set up in 2020 to meet the crisis in children’s literacy, we are now a charity with 400
volunteers in over 100 Gloucestershire schools.
Read With Me’s one-to-one reading sessions help children learn to read well which in turn improves
their literacy and builds their confidence. These fundamental skills position a child in the ‘driving
seat’ of their own future, opening up the opportunity to break the cycle of poverty and deprivation
and to fulfil their potential. Children who don’t learn to read, struggle with the school curriculum,
employment and self-sufficiency; and are disproportionately represented in the prison population.
Read With Me also runs the Not-So-Secret Book Clubs every holiday, providing storytelling and
creative opportunities, treasure hunts, crafts and, of course, free preloved books.
In particular, children in areas of greatest deprivation and those arriving in Gloucester with English
as a second language, may not have any books at home.