The Mohn Westlake Foundation is pleased to be helping national oracy charity, Voice 21 to bring access to high-quality oracy education to over 730,000 students in areas that need it most.

Voice 21 is the national oracy charity that exists to empower every child to use their voice for success in school and life. Despite widespread recognition, research and evidence of the importance of oracy (oral communication skills, including listening), only a minority of schools have consistent, coherent or adequately resourced provision to develop it. This is where Voice 21 makes a difference.

Voice 21 has developed and refined a comprehensive whole-school improvement programme ‘Voice 21 Oracy Schools’, targeted at state schools (primaries, secondaries and pupil referral units) in areas of economic deprivation. Designed and delivered with impact at its heart, the approach enables every school to provide a high-quality oracy education for their students.

The Mohn Westlake Foundation’s grant will enable Voice 21 to support over 1,630 more schools and the 730,000 students in communities with high deprivation, low social mobility and poor language skills on entry to education.

To learn more about this project, please visit the grantees website: voice21.org