Number Confidence Week
Thank you for supporting Number Confidence Week from 2-8 November. With your support, we can boost the nation's confidence with numbers this November!
Get involved and help spread the word using the resources below. We'll be adding new materials as we get closer to the week.
On 16 October we will tag you on social linking to an article containing your official quote. Please send your quote by 9 October to be included in this announcement.
Below, you’ll find:
(click on the name of each section to jump down the page)
• Getting involved
• Confidence-building resources
• Real life stories
• Promotional materials and guidance, including text templates
• Bespoke promotional graphics for your organisation
• Our social handles
• The National Numeracy Challenge
Getting involved
There are loads of ways you can get involved with Number Confidence Week.
1. The Big Number Natter
Bring the campaign to life in your workplace by inviting staff to take part in a conversation about numbers. You can hold Number Natters in groups or one-to-one, and they can be as formal or informal as you like. You can also share number stories and experiences across your internal and external channels using #BigNumberNatter, then encourage colleagues to take the next step by building their confidence with the National Numeracy Challenge.
Get your Big Number Natter resources
2. Spread the word and invite others
Help us grow the campaign by encouraging education providers and partner organisations in your network to join in! From nurseries and schools to workplaces and community groups, everyone who signs up will receive a free toolkit with resources and activity sheets.
Use these materials and text templates
3. The National Numeracy Challenge
The National Numeracy Challenge is our free, easy-to-use online tool designed to build everyday maths skills and confidence. Encourage your colleagues, customers and communities to take part using the downloadable assets on this page. It’s the perfect next step after a Big Number Natter for staff — and a simple way to help boost number confidence across your wider audiences.
Use these materials and text templates
4. Thought leadership & media opportunities
Position your organisation at the forefront of tackling the UK’s numeracy crisis.
Share your commitment by encouraging leaders to speak about your involvement in the campaign internally to inspire your workforce, and externally through articles, blogs, newsletters, social media and media opportunities. The Comms team at National Numeracy will be delivering a high-profile media campaign, and we’d love to work with you to amplify your story even further please get in touch to explore opportunities.
Visit our Media Centre or get in touch
5. Volunteering
Support your social impact goals through our corporate volunteering programme and help change how people feel about numbers for good.
We equip your employees to deliver inspiring sessions in primary schools that show children the real-world value of maths, directly supporting communities with low number confidence and helping to build the foundations for social mobility. Speak to your Partnership Manager to find out more and get involved.
Find out more about volunteering
6. Individual giving & fundraising
Support National Numeracy this Number Confidence Week through a donation, fundraising activity, or by spreading the word. From bake sales to personal challenges, every contribution helps us reach more people, particularly in disadvantaged communities, and move closer to a world where everyone has the confidence to succeed with numbers.
Confidence-building resources
Dr Linda's tips for boosting confidence and overcoming maths anxiety
Dr Linda Papadopoulos is a psychologist and National Numeracy ambassador.
Here she talks about what anxiety is and how it manifests, as well as tips for coping mechanisms and building confidence.
Real life stories
The stories we hear from adults who overcome lifelong anxieties about numeracy are an inspiration to us, and the range of people that these stories come from shows how widespread this issue is.
Read, watch, and share these stories to show others that, whatever your starting point, we can all build our number confidence, and support others in our communities to feel the same.
Promotional materials and guidance
Number Confidence Week logo
Recognising your support
Bespoke social media assets
Download the bespoke social media graphics for your organisation:
Or direct people to sign up with these assets:
Click here for text templates to use alongside these materials
Try the National Numeracy Challenge
However you feel about maths, you’re not alone. The National Numeracy Challenge is a free and easy-to-use website you can use to improve your confidence with numbers.
It’s ideal for brushing up, checking your level, or for catching up on learning you missed, and it’s all about the maths you need in daily life and at work – no algebra or trigonometry.
Use #NumberConfidenceWeek and tag us so we can share your messages! Find us on:
If you have any questions please get in touch at enquiries@nationalnumeracy.org.uk. We hope you will join us this November!