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Read Easy UK was founded in 2010. We remain the only national charity providing confidential one-to-one coaching for people who are struggling to read.

Thanks to the efforts of all Read Easy’s volunteers, it can cost Read Easy UK as little as £160 to help an adult learn to read.

We need your support to help us reach more people who want to learn to read across the UK. You can choose to make a single donation to Read Easy or to set up a standing order and support us on a regular basis.

Your donations do not just disappear! Thanks to our established reporting systems, we can tell you the stories of the actual people you have helped. Thank you for your support.

2.4 million adults in England alone can barely read or cannot read at all (Skills for Life Survey, 2011, Dept.BIS, the most recent data available).  This equates to 7.1% of the working age population who struggle with this most basic requirement of everyday life, a percentage that is almost certainly reflected across the rest of the UK. 

That’s a lot of parents who cannot support their children’s reading, a lot of parents for whom the words ‘World Book Day’ make them feel sick to their core. Many of these parents don’t even enter a doctor’s surgery when they are ill because they are frightened that they will be asked to read something or fill in a simple form, and for them the doors of Waterstones seem to resemble the gates of a kingdom they are forbidden from entering. Such is the shame many parents feel at not being able to read, they find it easier instead to hide the reading books their children bring home from school, so they are not faced with being asked to read with them.

You can help us change this!

Please click the button below to make a donation via JustGiving. 100% of your donation goes to Read Easy UK and will be used to support adults who want to learn to read.

Make an Offline Donation

If you would prefer to make an offline donation we ask that you please follow these instructions:

  1. Make a cheque payable to “Read Easy UK”
  2. Please post your cheque to:

The Old Post Office, Bell Lane, Blockley, Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire, GL56 9BB, United Kingdom

Gift Aid

If you are a UK tax-payer, Read Easy UK can claim back 25% of your donation from the Government at no additional cost to yourself. Please complete and return the Gift Aid form to us at the address below with your donation. Thank you. Gift Aid Form