The Literacy Pirates Giving low literacy the heave-ho Literacy is essential for children to succeed at secondary school. But if a child’s reading and writing skills are behind their peers at the age of nine, their confidence is affected and the gap widens. The...
Equal People Mencap Making food work ‘Turning dreams into action at the pace of the individual.’ This is the mission of Equal People Mencap, a west London charity that supports learning disabled and autistic people and people with complex needs to live the lives they...
Thames21 Back to nature The Chase Local Nature Reserve was once one of the best urban nature reserves in south east England, supporting 200 bird species. But, cut off from the river Rom (a tributary of the Thames running through east London), the Chase lost habitats...
Buglife – The Invertebrate Conservation Trust Helping get London buzzing again Conservation charity Buglife has an important and ambitious vision. They want to see ‘a wildlife-rich planet where other species thrive alongside people’. As their name suggests, they’re...
