Got to Read

14/08/2025

Quiz Night

WHEN: Saturday October 18, 2025
WHERE: Seckford Golf Club

Seckford Hall Road, Great Bealings,
Woodbridge IP13 6NT
START-TIME: from 18:00

with quizmaster Simon Jay
• Teams of 4 people - maximum
• £20 per person entry fee (£80 per team)
• Includes a hot main course dinner (+ Vegetarian option)
• Arrival and food 18:00
• Quiz - first part starts 19:30. Second part starts 21:00 after an
interval
• Licensed bar

To secure your team place full payment is required by latest October 10, 2025

For more detailed information (e.g. booking/payment) Please contact: Jean Wiltsher

email: [email protected]
(Jean will reply with the detailed information)

Got to Read is 100% volunteer led since 2011

Fundraising & donations allow us to continue to provide our free 1:1 support to help adults (18+) gain confidence in reading and writing

We appreciate any donation you can make

- Via Local Giving through our web site
- Via www.givinglottery.org.uk

09/05/2025

I am absolutely delighted to tell you that Got to Read has won a lottery grant of £11,850 which will secure Got to Read's future for the next two years. We have also won a second grant for £2,000 which will further help to secure our future.

https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/25146544.national-lottery-grant-secures-future-ipswich-charity/

If you would like help with reading or have an hour to spare each week to help someone with their reading and writing. Please contact us: www.gottoread.org.uk

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An Ipswich charity has received a grant to secure its future for the next two years.

10/01/2025

I read an article today in my news feed which shocked me. Now I knew that 1 in 6 adults have a reading age below 11 years. That’s around 16% of the population but that data was in 2011 and hasn’t been updated.

Today I read:
“more than a third of young people (38%) left secondary school without achieving at least a level 4 (grade C) in English language, and the gravity of the situation is stark”.

And like any skill, if you do not use it, it gets worse.

Message me if you would like the article. And please support Got to Read any way you can.

​We may be able to help with free, friendly and confidential one-to-one support. Volunteering with Got to Read Would you like to help someone to build their confidence with reading? Fundraising...

18/12/2024

One of our Trustees was on Ipswich Community Radio today talking about Got to Read.

12/10/2023

Got to Read AGM
15 November at 1pm
19 Tower Street, Ipswich

15/11/2022

We want to create a world where everyone is reading their way to a better life. 📚⁠
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Research shows that reading for pleasure can promote better health and wellbeing, aids in building social connections and relationships with others and is associated with a range of factors that help increase the chances of social mobility.⁠
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Find out how you can bring reading into your life, or the lives of others by visiting our website.

🔗www.readingagency.org.uk⁠
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21/06/2022

3,000 community groups in England that have been awarded almost £100 million of funding.
This vital funding, raised by National Lottery players, will help people and communities to build back from the pandemic, prosper and thrive.

Huge, huge thanks to the National Lottery Players for the funding given to Got to Read this year. We can train more volunteers, support more students, provide more resources and pay our rent for another year! Thank you so much!!!!

1 in 6 adults have a reading age below 11 years.

If you know an adult in the Ipswich area who would like free 1:1 help with their reading or writing or if you have an hour to spare each week and would like to help an adult grow more confident in their reading and writing, get in touch, we would very much like to hear from you.

We will be running the next training course for volunteers in late September.

01/06/2022

1 - 7 June is volunteers week
Can I give a big shout out and thank you to all of our wonderful volunteers and supporters of Got to Read. Thank you very, very much!!

13/05/2022

Huge huge thanks to Arnold Clark Community Fund who have given Got to Read £1000 to buy reading resources, cover training costs and help with rent to keep the charity going. Big big thanks!!!


1 in 6 adults have a reading age below 11 years. Do you know an adult who would like some free help with their reading with a trained 1:1 volunteer? Or do you live in the Ipswich area and have an hour to spare each week to help someone? Do get in touch.

23/04/2022

AGM: 26 May at 6pm
The AGM will be virtual again this year. I am delighted to tell you that the Chair of the Suffolk Dyslexia Association, Jane Leeburn has kindly agreed to give a talk. If you would like to join the meeting please message me
Angela Gage