Number Champions

Who we are

About Number Champions

We set up Number Champions in 2018 to transform the lives of children in state primary schools who struggle with numeracy.

We now have three part-time staff, led by our Head of Operations (HoO), who works directly with our Chair managing all aspects of the charity. However, most of the activities of the charity are delivered by volunteers.

Our trained In-School Volunteers (ISVs) spend a school year with each child in weekly one-to-one sessions. The volunteer uses maths games and other creative activities to engage the child and to help them build confidence and skills and so overcome the ‘maths barrier’. Helping the children at this early stage puts them back on track to achieve their full life potential, in a world where some fluency with maths and numbers is an essential building block.

Former (and current) teachers volunteering with us as ‘Mentors’ train and support these ISVs. 

Now in our seventh year, we are working across fourteen London boroughs in over 35 partner schools, with 116 ISVs supporting over 330 children.  We plan to grow these numbers year by year.

Currently we are the only charity in this field. Our vision is that other organisations will copy our model and that volunteer support for numeracy in primary schools will become as widely available across the country as support for reading is today.

Everyone at Number Champions is passionate about helping to improve children’s educational and life chances.

Our culture and values

We concentrate all of our activities on the charity's mission of supporting children.

We believe that people want to do a good job and that the role of the organisation is to remove barriers that prevent this.

As a small organisation, we can move quickly in response to needs.

We seek to maintain open communication amongst staff, volunteers, and trustees. We encourage everyone to raise questions and suggestions and we try to demonstrate that we value these even if in the end we choose not to act on them.

We seek to demonstrate our appreciation to our volunteers and to staff.

We aim to treat staff fairly, both in salary and in expectation of performance.

We seek to maintain good governance and to behave openly and honestly with our volunteers, staff, partner schools, funders, and all other stakeholders.

Equality, diversity and inclusion policy

We support the diverse population of London's children, and we seek to reflect this in our staff and volunteers.  We have had volunteers born in over 60 different countries, and look forward to growing this to 100!

We will do our best to accommodate volunteers or staff who have disabilites or access needs.