BookRelief UK
United Kingdom
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BookRelief UK is a literacy charity that started life as a community group in Bideford, North Devon in October 2006 and became a registered charity in March 2010. As a literacy charity, BookRelief UK has coordinated several programmes in North Devon beginning with a North Devon Schools Reading Programme in 2007 delivered in association with the National Literacy Trust’s Reading is Fundamental programme. In 2011 BookRelief UK introduced and coordinated a one-to-one mentoring programme in the Bideford area for school children who are slow or reluctant readers – in association with Reading Matters of Bradford and the Bideford Learning Community. This programme has worked very successfully and will be extended over the 2013/14 academic year thanks to financial support we recently received from the Big Lottery Fund's Awards for All programme. In 2012 BookRelief UK began an association with Read Easy UK to introduce their very successful volunteer-led adult literacy programme - which delivers one-to-one literacy coaching to adults with reading difficulties - to the North Devon area. This began with a pilot programme in Barnstaple. As of November 2013 we are pleased to report that our Read Easy Barnstaple group has trained over 40 volunteer reading coaches and has over 40 new readers/learners undergoing one-to-one basic literacy tuition. In February 2013 we established Read Easy Bideford &Great Torrington and we are currently working to establish a Read Easy group in Ilfracombe. BookRelief UK also have programmes for collecting and storing used books – which are either sold to raise funds for local literacy programmes or sent abroad through our Books Overseas Programme – which is currently run in conjunction with Book-Cycle of Exeter.
