Here is the invitation to our Annual General Meeting 10 – 12pm on Wednesday 13th December at Beeston Community Resource, Middle Street Resource Centre,
74 Middle Street, Beeston, NG9 2AR.
A copy of our charity’s Trustee Annual Report and Accounts 2022 – 2023 is now available ahead .
We invite all members and interested parties to attend – please contact your Area Coordinator or the office for details.
We are delighted to have received £1,580 from the The Co-op Community Fund as one of the Sherwood store’s charity of the year.
These vital funds will be be used to fund books and activities for local families with pre-school children. Thank you so much to The Co-op, your support will make a big difference to help all children enjoy reading.
We are delighted to have received £1,580 from the The Co-op Community Fund as one of the Sherwood store’s charity of the year.
These vital funds will be be used to fund books and activities for local families with pre-school children. Thank you so much to The Co-op, your support will make a big difference to help all children enjoy reading.
Our brilliant early years assistant, Marie, had a great time at Small Steps Big Change’s Bump to Baby event in St Ann’s (sharing a stand with Mehnaz from National Literacy Trust in Nottingham).
Ambleside very kindly allowed Literacy Volunteers to shot the photos for their new website in their school. They were so pleased with the photos they have set up a display in their main corridor to highlight all the great benefits their children get from working with Literacy Volunteers.
Literacy Volunteers has run three training courses for new Volunteers since the beginning of 2023 and will be running two more this year. We also run Safeguarding Courses for new Volunteers.
We run at least 3 Network Meetings for Literacy Volunteers on different dates every term and at a variety of venues over Nottinghamshire. Last term we met at West Bridgford, Chilwell and Mansfield. Volunteers caught up on Charity news, received new resources and had a good catch up with the staff team and importantly other Volunteers. We will be running 3 more network meetings this term in November.
Some of the staff team attended Volunteer recruitment fairs in Arnold, Newark and Chilwell. This is an important part of our work to help recruit new Volunteers, promote the work of our Charity and meet other volunteer organisations.
Literacy Volunteers had a stand at a Celebrating Volunteers Event at The Arboretum, Nottingham in early June 2023. On a beautiful sunny day it was great to see so many people there, meet potential new Volunteers, other Volunteer organisations and also visits from our own Volunteers.
Lorna Jaggard, our Early Years Project Lead, was invited to the Houses of Parliament this year to an event organised by The National Literacy Trust entitled ‘Literacy leaders levelling up for local leaders and constituency MPs to discuss the importance of literacy for levelling up our communities.’ Lorna met with Nottingham MPs Nadia Whittome (pictured right) and Lilian Greenwood and had really good discussions with them around the work that Literacy Volunteers do to support children through our Early Years programme, and in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire schools every week. Lorna also heard about the work being done by the Literacy Trust hubs and network, working in a place-based way with local communities at the heart.
Literacy Volunteers staff team Sue Marriott and Emma Collis were invited to attend and speak at the Rushcliffe Borough Council Mayor Inauguration in May 2023. The outgoing Mayor, Councillor Tina Combellack invited Sue to do a talk about Literacy Volunteers to the assembled Rushcliffe Councillors, dignitaries and guests. It was a great evening and enjoyable to meet so many people and to welcome in the new Mayor of Rushcliffe Borough Council Debbie Mason.
