Number Champions

Who we are

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

We recruit and train In-School Volunteers (ISVs) who work 121 with children in weekly one-to-one sessions. The volunteer uses maths games and other creative activities to engage the child and make maths fun.  This helps them build confidence and skills. Helping the children at this early stage puts them back on track to achieve their full life potential, in a world where numeracy is a critical skill for life.

Our model is built on the successful reading partner charities - and our amibition is to have the same incredible impact on numeracy as those charities have had on literacy.  

We have a small team of part-time staff, led by our CEO.  Everyone at Number Champions is passionate about helping to improve children’s educational and life chances.

Our culture and values

Our values are: children first | kind | people-powered. 

All of our team are part-time and work flexibly around other commitments.  All of the team work remotely.  Our policies and ethos are based on supporting work-life balance and getting the best out of our team.  

As a small organisation, we can be adaptable and 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 - whether staff, trustees or volunteers.

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 have an Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Policy, available on our website.  

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 across a wide age range.  We have specific provisions in our volunteer policy around accommodating volunteers who have disabilites or access needs.