Help children get to grips with words and numbers by
volunteering in a local primary school. Time: One lunchtime a
week or fortnight Where: A local primary school Lloyd’s
Community Programme volunteers are active in over twenty schools
in East London each week – making a huge impact in the lives of
hundreds of children. Literacy and numeracy are the building
blocks of a good start in life. They also open up all kinds of
opportunities beyond school, whether getting a good job or just
getting along socially. Schools in Tower Hamlets have made
impressive strides in helping children achieve more, and our
business volunteers build on that good work. As one of them,
you’d spend a lunchtime (either once a week or fortnight)
working with individual children to make numbers fun, or to help
them develop their reading, comprehension and verbal skills. In
turn, the kids get more than just a leg-up in English and Maths:
they get an insight into the world of work and business that’s
on their doorstep. The one-to-one intera