The Dyscalculia Network is largely volunteer-led and is run primarily by our two co-founders, Cat Eadle and Rob Jennings. As such, all our activities take place alongside our volunteers’ work and responsibilities. We can therefore say that we continue to be very proud of the impact we have made, given these obvious restrictions. Our website has been further developed over the past year. We have added a Dyscalculia Research Revealed page, in response to a call for research and evidence-based practice to be central to the support that our community provides. It was a collaborative project between us, our PhD student at Loughborough University, with the support from both UCL and Oxford University. It includes videos interviews with key dyscalculia researchers and summaries of papers to help make up to date research more accessible to educators and parents. We have also launched two new website pages to encourage our community to become further involved in our work. The first is a ‘Write to your MP’ page that has template letters to help people format letters to their MP about their experiences. The second is a fundraising page. Both pages stem from a community desire to support our work but also more importantly raise the issues our community faces with the government. We have also updated our Assessor and Tutor Sign up process to reflect the new SASC guidance and make the process simpler and more user friendly. We have become more involved at parliament level in raising awareness and advocating for dyscalculics. With the support of Baroness Bull and her two research assistants, we have submitted a response to the House of Commons Work and Pensions Inquiry on Employment Support for Disabled People and are planning our responses to the House of Lords Numeracy for Life Inquiry and SEND Reform consultation. We also created a group of educators’ parents and adults with dyscalculia to form a Dyscalculia Roundtable as part of the Neurodivergence Task and Finish Group. Baroness Bull became our first Patron. She has been instrumental in raising awareness of dyscalculia in the House of Lords including securing the first debate in either house on dyscalculia, ‘To ask His Majesty’s Government what provision is in place in schools for identifying and supporting students who have special educational needs, particularly dyscalculia.’ She also initiated alongside Lord Tarassenko the House of Lords Numeracy for Life Committee; a special inquiry formed in 2026 to investigate adult numeracy skills and maths education in England. Rob and Cat along with members of our Adult Advisory Board and community have met with Baroness Bull and other MPs to share information about dyscalculia and lived experience. Baroness Thornton also asked an oral question in the House of Lords, 'Recognising dyscalculia as a learning difficulty, and plans to support children who have it'. Research is central to our work. We continued our partnership with UCL on the lived experiences of children and adults with dyscalculia and were able to share the first findings of this research on Dyscalculia Day. We organised our first ever in-person meet up at UCL for adults with dyscalculia. Members of our Adult Advisory Board also participated in a collaborative podcast on dyscalculia, which has been very well received, and we are now working on an educator training package. We have also shared research projects on our social media to help researchers reach more participants. We have continued to deliver our OCN-accredited Level 3 Dyslexia and Dyscalculia Course in conjunction with Positive Dyslexia, which we delivered three times during the year, including to a group of educators from Oman, with excellent feedback from the delegates. Our Dyscalculia Day 2026 event continues to be the highlight of our year. We raised awareness through: - Launching our NEW campaign aimed at raising awareness of the issues our communities face and what needs to change including asking our community to write to their local MP using our template letters. - Hosting a NEW workplace webinar - Hosting a full-day educator conference; We shared the EXCLUSIVE research from our HEIF-funded collaboration with UCL University on the lived experience of children, young people and adults with dyscalculia. - Hosting Parents Webinars – A series of three parent and carer webinars for those with an interest in supporting children who struggle with maths or have dyscalculia. - Hosting an Adult Webinar and meet-up An exclusive opportunity to learn about the results of the research from our HEIF-funded collaboration with UCL University on the lived experience of adults with dyscalculia, plus a talk by an adult with dyscalculia and an online meet-up. - Hosting a general introduction webinar - Hosting a FREE Q&A webinar - Launching our first-ever fundraising campaign! - Providing a set of FREE downloadable activities for Primary/Secondary schools - Raising awareness through our social media campaign promoting the day and encouraging people to share their stories We have run a trial Adult Functional Skills support group, run by two of our dyscalculia assessors/specialist tutors which was very well received. One of the six adults who participated has now passed their Functional Skills level 2 exam. We have continued to offer monthly free Q&A webinars, and these have a growing national and international clientele. These Q&A sessions help us support more people, but we also respond to numerous daily individual emails and messages including via our social media channels. We continue to offer monthly webinars tailored to different groups within our community. In Spring/Summer 2025 we focused on helping educate our community on the new SASC definition of Specific Learning Difficulties in Maths and Dyscalculia with a series of webinars. The new SASC definition was also incorporated into all our work including updating our website to reflect the new definition. We have continued to expand our reach. We have spoken or exhibited or both at conferences all over Great Britain including at the TES London, National Education Show in Cardiff, and the TES Show North in Manchester. We have also visited numerous schools, colleges and Maths Hubs to deliver teacher training, as well as working with several teacher-training colleges to provide initial teacher training on dyscalculia. These have been carried out across the country in locations such as London for the Cavendish Group, Exeter School, Bristol grammar School, Lancashire and Cheshire Academy Trusts, two Leicestershire Schools, Maths Hubs in Cornwall and Devon and NE London. We have also continued our work in training community organisations e.g. for The Somerset, Wiltshire and Essex Parent Carer hubs, and spreading awareness of dyscalculia through outreach work such as podcasts and magazine articles e.g. the Twinkl Primary Maths Podcast (which Baroness Bull also joined) and the Twinkl, ‘Leading with’ podcast. We have created consultation groups for products and services for individual organisations to ensure the needs of the dyscalculic community are being met with these services. This has included consultation on content design. Our international audience has continued to grow. We were asked to provide training for a group of teachers from Malta in a European country, and we organised and led a 3-day teacher training conference in Luxembourg for these teachers. This was followed by a further 3-day training in Malta. We also trained teachers in Oman through our Level 3 course and provided training for Dyslexia Africa reaching over 200 educators in West Africa and attended the Right to Read Conference in Dublin, Ireland. We have continued to offer our partners opportunities to support our work through sponsoring our webinars, events or advertising their products with us. We have continued to expand our social media footprint and audience. We have an audience of approximately 40,000 followers across our platforms. We have added in a new series, Decoding Dyscalculia and also begun delivering Instagram and TikTok lives. This provides not only a much-needed sense of community and support for all our key stakeholders but also opportunities to disseminate key research and developments within the field. Our regular newsletter now reaches 1500 people. Members of our community were involved in an ITV news piece on dyscalculia highlighting the lack of teacher training and awareness of Dyscalculia. This was broadcast on ITV.

Over the past year, we have had two meetings with our Advisory Board. During these meetings, we discuss what we have achieved since the past meeting and ways to move the network forward. This year, the focus has been on discussions on how to expand and develop our work across the UK, the funding and people power we currently have and how we could utilise volunteers more effectively; including the potential re-structuring of our advisory boards. We have continued to utilise our advisory boards expertise for advice and contributions to our work on policy and educator training including as speakers at our events and as part of expert panels we have been asked to create or join. Our advisory board continue to inspire and support us. We have met with our Adult Advisory Board (adults with dyscalculia who are passionate about raising awareness of dyscalculia) twice but also converse weekly via our WhatsApp group. Members of the group have joined several consultancy panels for businesses or public services to share their lived experience, contributed to events including attending exhibitions with us and public speaking, been integral to our Lived Experience research project with UCL university; including speaking in the resulting podcasts and helping shape the training we are developing, helped us create the first in person meet-up at UCL university, helped us shape policy responses, supported our social media work, been an integral part of our Dyscalculia Day events, supported our work by fundraising, and offered a constant source of advice and support for each other and the wider community when requested. The group would like to see us share more real-life experiences of dyscalculia and to improve our social media reach so these will form part of our next targets. We have met once with our ‘Parent Advisory Board’ to discuss how we best utilise their skillset and expertise moving forwards. Several members of the group have joined panels for education and policy or spoken at events/ led webinars for us. The group have also contributed to the creation of the MP template letters, planning our response to the SEND white paper and offering support to each other within the group. One member of the group has been of great support in looking at how we can re-structure moving forward and has held several meetings with our founders. This year, our assessors and tutors who list with us have been very active within our community. Our WhatsApp group remains a valuable source of professional support for all of us and an excellent platform for shaping and sharing ideas. The group is active daily and is a positive and inspiring source of expertise and professional advice and support. Many of our group members have supported our work in different ways; joining expert panels on a national level and for organisations, helping shape our template letters for MPs, speaking at events or webinars, offering training for our members, contributing to our Decoding Dyscalculia series, helping behind the scenes with policy documents and proof reading, running our Functional Skills Support Group, attending events with us and on our behalf and supporting in the day-to-day running of the network. We provide termly CPD for this group on topics requested by them or of interest to them. The topics in the past year have been new SASC definition of Specific Learning Difficulties in Maths and Dyscalculia, The Curious Case of ADHD and Maths, Dynamo maths, and Discovering the New Woodcock Johnson V. . We have further developed our strong relationships with Loughborough, Derby and UCL universities, particularly focusing on our joint project with UCL which has been very successful and is therefore being further developed. We have continued to be members of CReSTeD and the Council for Disabled Children and have recently been invited to join the Joint Mathematics Council (JMC). We aim to raise awareness of dyscalculia within these communities and influence change. We have also collaborated with other charities and CIC’s including National Numeracy, British Dyslexia Association, Dyslexia Africa and worked with many Maths Hubs and universities. (Bath Spa, Southbank in London, St. Mary's in Twickenham and Liverpool) and specialist organisations (including PATOSS, SASC, Dyscalculia Association and Specialist Teacher Training). We also work with many other organisations and businesses in the field of dyscalculia including Positive Dyslexia, SEN books, Autopress Education, Nessy, Twinkl, Dynamo, TTS Resources, Cuisenaire Company, and Dynamo maths. We respond to many emails from our community; these can be from adults with dyscalculia or parents of children with maths difficulties or dyscalculia seeking professional support, educators seeking advice or training, workplaces and employers, MPs and members of the House of Lords, researchers, other charitable organisations, businesses in the field of neurodiversity, press, and general enquiries. We also continue to communicate with our approximately 40,000 social media followers worldwide by responding to their comments and messages. We frequently use this data, including data from polls, to inform our decisions about services we provide and how we present information we share.

The directors were paid a total of £35,406 for their professional services for the year. There were no other transactions or arrangements in connection with the remuneration of directors which require to be disclosed.

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