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We are an innovative maths charity, working in prisons across the U.K to improve prisoners numeracy skills

We are transforming lives in prisons

One to One Maths enables, encourages and supports prisoners with good numeracy skills to mentor those prisoners with limited basic numeracy abilities. The scheme of peer mentoring taps into an underutilised resource of educated prisoners helping their fellow prisoners improve their life skills. One to One Maths works jointly with the prison and education staff, using excellent teaching material supplied by a leading teaching publisher.

65% of prisoners have numeracy skills at or below the level of an 11 year old. 80% of these prisoners reject formal Prison Education
As a small charity, we provide much needed practical help to enable and encourage prisoners with limited basic numeracy skills
We are tackling a massive challenge to introduce a unique approach to educating, with no cost to the prison service
“It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest”

Nelson Mandela

“There still isn’t a sufficiently high premium put on education,” Stanford says. “We say prisons are for rehabilitation, so let’s do the most obvious bit of rehabilitation: let’s start prioritizing education.”

Peter Stanford, the director of the Longford Trust

“I try to talk to people who employ prisoners on the outside and try to understand what they want. They say that they need basic literacy and numeracy skills”

Nick Hardwick Chief Inspector of Prisons

“When so many come into custody illiterate and innumerate it would be a crime if we did not get them reading and writing when they are in our care.”

Michael Gove, MP, Secretary of State for Justice

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  • RT : A sense of achievement, a totally transportable skill, a career door-opener, a future and an opportunity to stop creating victims on BOTH sides of the fence. This is what many people behind bars SHOULD have been given in their formative years. Onwards and upwards ......!,
  • Prisoners at HMP Littlehey are organising a competition to celebrate two years of success of in their prison, and they are offering a prize to the person who can correctly predict when the 1000th book will be issued.
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  • "Education classes and opportunities to develop skills were seen as contributing to self-confidence, self-esteem and opening up opportunities" - this line from @Clinks_tweets' report on mental health in prisons is particularly pertinent to our work: ,

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