Our Services

High Quality * Community * Services

The Roger Diamond Foundation (RDF) runs and promotes high quality classes, tuition and workshops - requested by parents - for children in local disadvantaged communities. Courses, classes and tuition include: Piano and jazz (online tuition), Saturday reading and writing classes. We aim to promote mastery of the English language, creative writing including poetry etcetera. 

We have found that the primary (extramural) tuition/support usually requested in our local racially diverse communities by parents and children, is help with their literacy, English and maths. Music tuition is also requested but it is difficult to find musicians who are prepared to give weekly music tuituion on a voluntary basis. All our saturday literacy classes and all the administration of our services is currently carried out by volunteers. 

Word-of-Mouth Our London-based classes, tuition and workshops are mainly promoted by 'word-of-mouth' and referrals. 

Reading & Writing Tuition We run reading and writing improvement classes and 1-to-1 tuition on Saturday mornings during term-time. They are mostly for children falling behind with phonics, grammar, comprehension etc. We use the structured Butterfly method text books by (author and educationalist) Irina Tyk. With this method the children's reading ages on average increase by over a year in just 18 hours of Butterfly literacy tuition/classes. 

Piano/Keyboard Tuition Half-priced video-call music workshops and music tuition are available if you are an RDF member and have a keyboard instrument or piano to practise on regularly. 

Tailored Support For over four 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. 

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 violent teenage gangs and the increasing number of children committing knife crime etc.

Workshops Now and then we hold poetry, reading, music and creative writing workshops etc. These are held in schools, community centres or cultural venues of various kinds. 

Public events and productions Our public and partnership events are often promoted on this website. 

Partnerships* Behind the scenes, we also work with or support individuals and charities conducting social research or running charitable projects. Much of this important ongoing behind-the-scenes work is generally not promoted or detailed on this website. 

DBS Checks All of our volunteers aged 16 years or over, and working regularly with children, are enhanced DBS checked. 

Ticketed Events Reduced price tickets as well as premium tickets are usually available!