Our Services
Helping parents support children's high aspirations in challenged local communities
High Quality * Community * Services
The Roger Diamond Foundation (RDF) runs and promotes high quality classes, tuition and workshops - requested by parents - for children in local disadvantaged communities. Our services feature Saturday reading and writing classes. We promote the mastery of English literacy. We also enourage creative writing, poetry etc.
The primary (extramural) tuition usually requested in our local racially diverse communities by parents and children, is help with mastering English literacy (reading & writing skills). Maths and Music tuition is also requested. Most of the tuition and administration of our services is carried out by volunteers.
Reading & Writing Tuition We run reading and writing improvement classes and 1-to-1 tuition for 5 to 11 year olds on Saturday mornings during term-time. The children learn to read or imrpove their phonics, grammar, comprehension etc. We use superb instructional text-books for whole-class teaching. The children's reading ages on average increase by over a year in just 18 hours of RDF class tuition.
Word-of-Mouth Our London-based classes, tuition and workshops are mainly promoted by 'word-of-mouth' and local referrals.
Piano/Keyboard Tuition Half-priced video-call piano, jazz and music tuition services are available if you are an RDF member and have a keyboard instrument or piano to practise on regularly.
Tailored Support For over five years, RDF has been promoting tailored one-to-one tuition and support helping disadvantaged families. Classes and 1-to-1 tuition in subjects such as Reading Improvement, Maths, Music theory, Jazz theory or Piano lessons. These have been available in person and via video-call.
Research From time to time we work and converse with professional academic researchers in our search to discover the best educational solutions to social problems in the U.K. We are continually researching to better understand the relevant underlying causes of difficult anti-social issues/problems, such as violent teenage gangs and the increasing number of children committing knife crime etc.
Workshops Now and then we hold poetry, reading, music and creative writing workshops etc. These are held in schools, community centres or cultural venues of various kinds.
Public events and productions From time to time we hold public and partnership events. These are often promoted on this website.
Partnerships We partner with other charities, Community Interest Companies (CICs), and community organisations providing services in disadvantaged areas of London. Not all our ongoing behind-the-scenes work is promoted or detailed on this website.
