Catch Up Numeracy

Catch Up (the working name of the Caxton Trust) is a not-for-profit company and a registered charity. Established in 1997, its mission is to address the problem of underachievement that has its roots in literacy and numeracy difficulties.

Catch Up is based in Thetford, Norfolk, and it works across England and Wales. It comprises a core office team (including the Director, Julie Lawes) and a team of local authority or self-employed Catch Up Accredited Trainers. It also works with specialist consultants in education, research, IT, communications, book distribution and multi-media. Catch Up is governed by a board of trustees.

Catch Up provides two interventions to support struggling learners: Catch Up Literacy and Catch Up Numeracy (both in English and Welsh). Both interventions are targeted to the needs of individual learners and enable personalised learning, both are grounded in rigorous academic research.
Each intervention begins with diagnostic/formative assessments which enable the adult to identify an appropriate focus for teaching for the individual learner (for literacy, a book of an appropriate level of difficulty; for numeracy, activities of an appropriate level of difficulty that address a specific component of numeracy).