Literacy Mentoring
Literacy Mentoring involves volunteers going into schools once a week to provide children with additional reading support, mainly in primary schools.
Literacy mentors work with two children for an academic term. All volunteers receive a day's free training from BEST, plus ongoing support, monitoring and evaluation.
Benefits:
- Improving children's reading ages
- Improving self-confidence, motivation and interest in school work
- Experience of working with a positive role model from the world of work
- Improving links between organisations and the local community
- Influencing the ambitions and aspirations of the future workforce
- Promoting the personal development of employees
- Increasing understanding of initiatives taking place in schools
- Fulfilling Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) policies