We love the challenge of taking documents, no matter how complicated, and translating them into Easy Read format. We make the text simpler to understand, and design the
document to include lots of pictures in a clear layout to make your message accessible to everyone. 

Easy Read Translation:

Our service is best practice, excellent quality, reliable and affordable. We can translate any kind of document; from posters to government legislation and public health campaigns. We have previously worked on agendas and meeting minutes, banners, presentations and job application packs.

Most importantly, we have contact with many adults with learning difficulties who can help us work on our translations and check the drafts and final documents. Who better to tell us if our work is good than the people who are left in the dark if it is bad? That is what makes our service best practice and by working together as a team it means that what we do is of excellent quality.

We use recognised standards from the government and Mencap to translate the text on your document into Easy Read text. We can use your own images or use images from other sources. We believe that design is an essential part of the translation. Well designed attractive documents are more enticing for anyone to read. And less intimidating for people with lower literacy levels. 

We can provide you with High Resolution PDFs ready for the office printer, and Low Resolution PDFs suitable for email and online. We can also produce any documents you may require suitable for printing by a commercial printer. Or we can include printing costs for you at quotation stage, if you would like an end to end service. If you contact us by telephone, email or by using the form on our contacts page we will get back to you within two working days. We can provide you with a quotation that sets out price and timescales as well as details like document formats and image types.

If you accept a quotation, we will provide a first draft of your document within the agreed timescales for you to check and comment on any changes needed. We can then provide a second draft where these changes are made and the document finalised.

Easy Read Training:

If you want to learn how to produce your own easy read documents we can come to your premises, depending on your location. We will travel within Cheshire at no extra cost and we can quote to travel outside Cheshire on request.

The training works best for groups of 6-12 over a few hours - but we are flexible so please contact us to discuss your requirements. We will have someone with learning difficulties with us to help deliver the training and provide invaluable feedback.

We start by giving some background about Easy Read information, what standards and guidance there is available nationally, and presenting our 'rules'. We then split into smaller groups for putting the rules into practice. Easy Read sounds 'easy' to do but having to strip everything back to basics is actually quite complicated and harder than it sounds. We get back together as a whole group to discuss how everyone got on and which translation we like the best. There is usually a lot of friendly competition and rivalry in this section of the training session.

We as the trainers reserve the right to the final decision but can usually be bribed with biscuits! We could work on one of your own documents or provide examples for you.

Easy Read Feedback:

If you go on to produce your own Easy Read documents, we can also provide you with a feedback service.

We can visit you to work on the document together with your colleagues and with people with learning difficulties, or, alternatively, we can present your document to people with learning difficulties and provide you with our feedback. In either case, please contact us with your requirements.

Information to follow soon about our Learning Disability & Autism Awareness Training Courses.