Amity provides tuition to some thirty Students at three different venues in south east London.

Typically, Students are referred to us by a wide range of agencies, and some are self referred.

The majority of our Students have special learning difficulties, which makes our one to one approach particularly suited to their needs.

The ethnic mix of our Students matches the ethnic mix of the locations served by our venues.

For more details about our Students, go to the Students web page.

For details about how to nominate a Student, go the the Student Nomination Form.

This section of the Web Site provides examples of Students' writing.

We started this section with a series of short stories written by Richard Walker, written over a period of four years from 1994 to 1998.  More material from other students has now been added.

Amity currently benefits from the services of some thirty Volunteers at three different Club venues.

Amity recruits its Volunteers from many sources, but typically, they live locally to the areas they serve.  By the same token, the ethnic mix of our Volunteers matches the ethnic mix of the locations served by our venues.

Training of Volunteers takes the form of ongoing tutorial training undertaken by the Club Supervising Tutor, and supplemented by a programme of formal training sessions, typically led by one of the Founding Organisers.

For more details about our Volunteers, go to the Volunteers web page.

For details about how to apply to be a Volunteer, go the the Volunteer Application Form.

To supplement its formal training programme, Amity has placed copies of its Training Information Leaflets on the Web Site.  This is a continuing process, so please check on what is available from time to time, as it will be expanding in the months ahead.  In addition, you can now download all our Volunteer training material on this site in a single file; click on the link for details.

In addition, and created specially for this Web Site, Founding Organiser, Gladys Glascoe is writing the Gladys Glascoe Series.  It covers the induction and training of a typical Volunteer over their first twelve months with Amity.  They are being published on a monthly cycle.

Our Social Support Policy is an essential part of Amity's approach to adult literacy.

It extends the boundaries of tuition beyond the written page to practical examples of the way in which literacy applies to day to day living and can help tackle problems which to our Students, are seemingly impossible.

For more details, go to the Social Support Policy web page.

Amity's Computer Literacy Project was initiated in 1994 with financial support from the Brixton Estates Trust, Thamesmead Town and Price Waterhouse Coopers (the Coopers and Lybrand) in 1995, following which we bought our first laptop computer and literacy software.

Further support was received from the Trust for London in the autumn of 1995 which enabled the purchase of two further machines.

In 1998 the National Lottery Charities Board Grant enabled Amity to purchase three further laptop computers and a substantial amount of support equipment and software, which enabled a giant leap forward in the project.

We are most grateful to all these organisations for the generous support.

The purpose of the Computer Literacy Project is to take advantage of the latest developments in computer hardware and special needs literacy software and thereby adds to the teaching resources available within each club.  "Technofear" by our Students is overcome by our use of one to one tuition using Volunteers who handle the computer's operating system, leaving the Student to enjoy all the benefits of the computer itself.

The use of modern IT equipment has a beneficial effect on the morale of Students, and extends their motivation to learn.

This section of the site provides information for Referral Agencies, together with details of contact arrangements.

In addition, the text of a leaflet originally drafted to provide information for educational, social, medical and allied services, has been reformatted for the web.