What we do
The Every Child a Chance Trust aims to unlock the educational potential of socially disadvantaged children through the development and promotion of evidence-based, early intervention programmes.
A unique collaboration between the business sector, charitable trusts and government, the Trust has brought innovative thinking and funding from the business sector to tackle the intolerable problem that we still have a school system that widens the gap between the highest and lowest achievers and between the rich and poor.
The Trust has shown that, with the right resources, it is possible to overcome the literacy and numeracy difficulties that blight so many children's lives. With the number of unskilled jobs predicted to shrink from over 3 million to just 600,000 by 2020, the economy cannot afford to leave any child without qualifications – that is why business has backed the Trust’s development of high impact literacy and numeracy programmes, providing highly skilled one to one teaching support for the lowest achieving 5% of six and seven year olds in primary schools across the country. In 2010-11, 30,000 of these children will be able to benefit from specialist literacy support through the Every Child a Reader programme and a further 30,000 from specialist numeracy support through the Every Child Counts programme.
Every Child a Reader
- 14,918 children taught in 2009-10
- Average Reading Age gain 21 months after 41 hours of 1-1 teaching
- Nearly five times the ‘normal’ rate of progress
- At follow up, children outperformed the national average for all children in their test results at age seven
Every Child Counts
- 7,820 children taught in 2009-10
- Average Number Age gain 14 months after 20 hours of 1-1 teaching
- Over four times 'normal' rate of progress
Every Child a Chance is pro-active in seeking projects to fund and regrets that it is not in a position to respond to unsolicited grant applications.
Documents for download
Annual report 2009-10
(PDF, 2.07 mb)
Every Child a Chance:
Summary Facts (pdf, 104k)
Summary for schools
(word doc, 1.3mb)
In good company -
a 32 page toolkit
for schools
(PDF, 600k)
Template application
for schools
(PDF, 2.3mb)
Eight out of ten catch up completely with their peers after just 38 hours of one-to-one teaching.