Easy Read for Charities & Non-Profits

Easy Read for Charities

Imagine a beneficiary trying to understand a Service Information Guide written in complex language, or a Volunteer Handbook filled with technical terminology.

Or consider a potential donor wanting to read an Annual Report, but finding the language too formal and difficult to follow.

In these scenarios, clear, accessible communication helps your charity reach more people, engage beneficiaries effectively, and demonstrate impact to supporters.

Legal Duties for Charities

Under the Equality Act 2010, charities that provide services must make reasonable adjustments for people with disabilities.

This includes making information accessible for beneficiaries, volunteers, and supporters with learning disabilities or communication difficulties.

Easy Read supports inclusive service delivery by presenting information clearly - combining simple language with visual structure and consistent design.

How Claru helps Charities

Claru helps your charity create Easy Read materials for beneficiaries, volunteers, and supporters as they are needed.

You can convert existing documents into accessible versions in minutes, without the cost or delay of commissioning new ones.

Developed in line with UKAAF principles, Claru aligns with the accessibility standards recognised across the UK charity sector.

You can use Claru for :

• Beneficiary Communications
  • Service Information Guides
  • Support Materials and resources
  • Rights and Entitlements Information
• Supporter and Volunteer Materials
  • Volunteer Handbooks
  • Fundraising Appeals
  • Annual Reports and impact summaries

Where documents include personal data, upload a template or anonymised version, then add specific details after conversion.

Practical ways to tailor your Claru document for Charities

Claru gives you options to customise the output of your conversion. Here are our suggestions for how to customise your charity document, but feel free to experiment according to your specific scenario.

You can choose the relevant domain. For charity documents, choose General/Other or the domain most relevant to your charity's work.

Choose the relevant audience, reading level, and document purpose, based on your expected use-case.

Select any people or roles mentioned in your document. For example a charity document may feature Support Worker or Social Worker.

Finally, choose the Charity/Non-profit organisation-type.

Confirm that the options shown are what you selected, and click convert. The AI converter uses a smart algorithm to align your document and its images with the chosen context, to give you the most relevant Easy Read document possible.

What we do

We help charities make Easy Read documents.

Easy Read makes information easier to understand.

Why Easy Read matters for Charities

People who use your services need to understand information about your charity.

Volunteers need to understand how they can help.

Sometimes these documents are hard to read.

Easy Read makes information clear for everyone.

This helps you reach more people.

The law says you should do this

Charities must follow the Equality Act 2010.

This law says you must make reasonable adjustments for people with disabilities.

Easy Read helps you do this.

How Claru helps you

Claru makes Easy Read documents quickly.

You can create them in minutes.

It costs much less than paying someone to do it for you.

Claru follows UKAAF principles.

You can use Claru for :

• Service Information
• Support Materials
• Volunteer Handbooks
• Fundraising Appeals
• Annual Reports

How to make your Claru document right for Charities

Claru lets you choose options for your document. Here are our suggestions for charity documents.

You can choose what type of document it is. For charity documents, choose General/Other or the type that matches your charity's work.

Choose who will read it and how simple the language should be.

Choose the people in your document. Charity documents might have Support Worker or Social Worker.

Choose your organisation type. Pick Charity/Non-profit.

Check your choices are correct and click convert. Claru will make images and text that match your document type.