We established Number Champions in 2018 to help transform the lives of state primary school children who struggle with numeracy or lack confidence in maths.

Early intervention can put these young children back on track to achieve their full life potential, in a world where some fluency with maths and numbers is an essential building block.

We train volunteers to support children in Years 2 and 3 (six- to eight-year-olds) in developing age-appropriate maths skills and in gaining confidence. Volunteers run weekly one-to-one sessions of 25 or 30 minutes, in principle working with the same child for the full school year. Sessions are in school time, in the school but outside the classroom.

The goal is that children gain a sense of real achievement and engage fully in classroom maths lessons, with positive impact on their educational and life prospects.

Former and current teachers, volunteering with us as ‘Mentors’, train and support our volunteer tutors and help us to develop dedicated resources for them to use with the children.

Our volunteers’ work has consistently shown a highly positive impact on children's learning and confidence in maths, and we are keen to deliver our proven intervention to as many children as possible.

From September 2023 we should be partnering with over 30 schools across 13 London boroughs, with about 100 volunteers supporting nearly 300 children.

We believe that we are the first and only charity supporting numeracy systematically in primary schools in this way.