"This is one of the highlights of my week, I enjoy interacting with the pupils and seeing them get excited by books we read together. They enjoy picking new books each week and their reading has steadily improved and become more expressive." Wilma Briggs, Solihull

We're active across England and are growing! If we're not yet working with a primary school within 5 miles of where you live, we'd love you to help us find one and bring our support to children in your community.

There are a few things we need to be sure you're ok with before you apply. Can you answer 'yes' to the following questions?

Are you able to:

• Be open to learning and delivering our approach to help children become readers?
• Give your ongoing commitment and dedication to the charity and the children we support? 
• Travel to one of our partner primary schools for a few hours each week during their afternoon sessions? 
• Use a PC/laptop/tablet to access our interactive, live training sessions via Zoom?
• Use email* to receive and respond to communications from us?

*If you do apply please check your spam/junk email folders as we get sad when we end up in there and you feel we've not answered you!

Hear from a reading helper volunteer sharing her experience of volunteering with us.

Ready to apply? 

Have a look through our application form below and when you have all the information you need, fill it in. It does need completing in one go as there isn't an option to save your progress.

You can find out more about volunteering with Coram Beanstalk here or if you have a specific question that's not covered you can give us a call on 0207 729 4087 (Monday to Thursday 10am to 4pm) or email [email protected] 

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