Beanstalk is a national literacy charity that recruits, vets, trains and supports volunteers to work in primary schools and nurseries with children who have fallen behind with their reading or are at risk of doing so.

Beanstalk reading helpers work with children on a one-to-one basis, giving them their full attention and support to improve reading levels, increase their confidence and self-esteem and inspire a lifelong love of reading.

We work across England in the North, Midlands, London and the South East, Norfolk and Somerset. We have over 100 staff and more than 3,000 volunteers, who support over 11,000 children a year, but there is still much more we can do. Our aim is to reach out to 30,000 children a year by 2021.