Read On Nottingham's Digital Literacy Champions

At Read On Nottingham we have recruited and trained a team of volunteer Literacy Champions from a wide range of backgrounds to design and deliver projects which aim to improve literacy levels in their community. The volunteers are the ones who best understand the places they live and are supported to develop ideas which they know will work for the people around them.

In response to COVID-19 and as Literacy Champions were unable to go out and about in the community, we recognised that we should support them to become Digital Literacy Champions.  This would enable us to reach these communities through online and virtual activities. We also sought to recruit and train more Digital Literacy Champions to engage people in improving literacy as far and wide across Nottingham as possible.

These Literacy Champions became invaluable in sharing and signposting resources to help and support families and communities to engage their own children, families, friends and neighbours in reading and home-school learning.  They supported them to access the National Literacy Trust’s online learning resource called Family Zone  – which was launched at the end of March, as well as our local Read On Nottingham Facebook page.