Hi everybody!

Thanks so much for all your votes and shares and pledges so far – it means the world to us.

As it stands, we are at 275th in the start-up leadership board. We need to get into the top 80 and still be there by 11:59pm GMT on Monday the 23rd May.

It seems like a long stretch, but we haven’t given up hope yet! If you were each able to vote and rope in a few friends (or ten!) we’d have a good chance at making it through to the first round of pitching our free learn-to-read app to the panel.

We’ve also entered the Crowdfunder category, and are raising money to help continue to fund the production of Peasyread, and start testing to make sure we make reading as easy and quick for first-time readers.

If we reached the top 5 in the Crowdfunder category, we could be up for receiving a donation from Crowdfunder itself, which would be invaluable in our quest to deliver an accessible app that offers a way for every child to learn to read.

We’ve got some really fun rewards for your pledges, like an Ape in a Cape mug for your morning coffee, and a scavenger hunt around Oxford with the Oxford Learning Solutions team (which we’re super excited about!), using our fun Trainertext characters as clues, followed by a picnic in the university parks.

Thank you for all your support with Easyread, and if you could support Peasyread in whatever way you can, we would be forever grateful.

https://www.vmbvoom.com/pitches/peasyread

Love Maddie and all the team at Oxford Learning Solutions