Our Classes & Services

Supplementary Classes & Saturday Schools

The Roger Diamond Foundation (RDF) runs and promotes high quality supplementary classes, tuition and workshops - requested by parents for their children in our local (disadvantaged) communities. Our services feature Saturday Reading and Writing Mastery classes. These classes enable children to become masters of literacy.  Some of our classes include creative writing, poetry, script-reading, performance drama, etc. 

Our supplementary classes are provided in local racially diverse communities. Currently we are not fully funded. When fully funded we hope to run our flagship Saturday Literacy Mastery Schools at community centres - in or near social housing estates in RBKC and Westminster (North Kensington, Queens Park and North Paddington).

Mastery of Reading & Writing We run supplementary reading and writing mastery classes and sessions for 5 to 11 year olds on Saturday mornings during term-time. The children learn to read or improve 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 or one average school term of RDF class tuition. 

The RDF Literacy Mastery School - was founded by local Parents for local Parents. The tuition and all the administration is carried out solely by volunteers. If you register with us - please note: There might be a waiting list for some Reading Age or calendar age levels. This is because we are not currently fully funded.

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. 

Word-of-Mouth Our classes, projects and workshops are mainly promoted by 'word-of-mouth' and local referrals. 

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 anti-social teenage gangs and the increasing number of children committing knife/gun crime etc.

Workshops Now and then we hold creative writing workshops for children - in schools, community centres, community festivals, or cultural venues of various kinds. 

Public events and productions From time to time we hold public/community events in partnership with other charities or organisations. 

Partnerships We partner with other charities, Community Interest Companies (CICs), local council projects and organisations providing services to help children in various disadvantaged areas of London.