The Shannon Trust provides adults who have had negative early life educational experiences with a second chance at learning to read and obtain numeracy skills.
[1] The Shannon Trust was founded in 1997 by Christopher Morgan MBE, a farmer from Sussex.
Morgan took his idea for the Shannon Reading Plan to the Director General of the Prison Service who was sceptical and challenged him to make it work in HMP Wandsworth, a notoriously busy prison in London.
It took a further three years of experimentation before the Shannon Reading Plan really started to impact on the lives of non-reading prisoners.
Lodge observed that those involved not only benefited from learning to read but also from increased confidence, raised self-esteem and improved behaviour.