In 2001 a group of experienced UK primary teachers went as Millennium Global Teacher Volunteers through Link Community Development, to live and work, for 6 weeks, in remote, rural communities in the very far north of Ghana (Upper East region).  We lived in villages across the region, generally without electricity or running water, in family compounds.   It was a life-changing experience for all of us and after a couple of years some of us decided we wanted to return.

On our second visit we ran a series of leadership workshops for head teachers.  At one of these, a head teacher came up and said, "This workshop is very interesting, but I have 100 children and a blackboard under a tree.  What am I to do?"   That evening, Let's Read was born!  

Jane Fulford
25 years teaching in inner city primary schools, 15 years as a headteacher in Kings Cross, London, in a school with many children from different cultural and linguistic groups, including refugees.  Also worked in Initial Teacher Training and spent a year as interim head of an Early Years centre.
Qualifications include MBA in international educational leadership.
As a headteacher, established The Parent House, an award winning charity, which continues to support parents in the local community through education, mentoring, parenting and job opportunities.   Also set up a volunteer reading programme and organised up to 50 people from the local area to visit the school each week to support children’s reading.
Worked for a Local Authority's School Improvement Service for ten years and now act as an independent educational consultant to various organisations.  Also a school governor.  
Awarded the OBE in 1999 for services to education.

Judith Lees
Spent all her working life in education as a primary teacher and then 15 years as HT of a successful primary school in the north of England, judged very good with outstanding features in 2005, just weeks before she retired.
Academic qualifications include a BA in English Language and Literacy and an MA in Leadership & Management.  Areas of particular expertise are Special Educational Needs, early literacy and music.  
Has taught many young people and adults the piano and the pipe organ, some of who have gone to become professional musicians.
A practising Christian who has played the organ for services every week for almost 50 years.
Still involved with children & young people through managing a community youth project, and also as a governor of the local primary school. 

Jo Hallett
Substantial experience of teaching in nursery, primary, special and secondary schools across a long and varied career.  She also has experience in social work, youth work and travellers’ education and has worked in London, Coventry, Hertfordshire and the USA.
Leadership experience includes science leader, deputy headship and two periods as acting headteacher of a primary school. 
Academic qualifications include BA Hons in social studies and political institutions, Diploma in Social Science and a postgraduate diploma in teaching mathematics in secondary schools. Was a Fulbright Scholar at Bryn Mawr College, Philadelphia USA. 
Spent a year in Ghana in 1962 as a Quaker Overseas Volunteer teaching in Wesley Girls High School, Cape Coast, Ghana
Continues to volunteer in primary schools in Coventry, running science club and teaching recorders to children, and is an active member of the Quakers.  She is also a trustee of Ghana School Aid, Friends of Sangam School Foundation and West Midlands Quaker Peace Education Project. 

Lyn Corderoy
 Lyn Corderoy has been a headteacher in an Essex primary school for 6 years. She is also a lecturer with the Billericay SCITT (ranked first in the country). Her focus both in school and in the teacher training is the development of learning through the thematic, creative curriculum and problem solving skills.  ‘How do you inspire your children to be inspired learners?’  Providing an exciting learning environment and skilling up staff, pupils, governors and families are key.
Lyn's school specialises in the arts, the use of technology in learning and international education, having links with other schools and a role as a British Council International Schools Award ambassador. She is always looking at learning opportunities for herself and her school community, through collaboration with local schools. Lyn has an MA in Education and had a research fellowship with Farmington College, Oxford.
She has run several summer schools for Ghanaian teachers in the school holidays.