Schools and Centres
Generation Exchange: Haringey Outstanding For All - Best Community Organisation Award Winner, 2014
Our Volunteers come from a variety of backgrounds to work with our charity. They are over 50, reliable, skilled and want to make a regular commitment. The skills they can offer include helping children with reading and maths but we also have volunteers who can do coaching with Years 12 & 13 and volunteers who work in early years in Children’s centres.
We recruit, screen and train all our volunteers to a very high standard. The volunteers attend their placements for 2.5 hours per week for approximately 30 – 32 weeks a year. Volunteers who do reading with children will usually spend approximately 15/20 minutes with each child, and so will probably help 5 or 6 children in an afternoon or morning session. Although they are trained our volunteers cannot replace teachers.