Natalia Bulbuk is the Founder of ReadTwo Ltd, a mission-locked UK EdTech venture delivering Brave Readers – a bilingual reading programme helping disadvantaged Ukrainian-speaking children in the UK become confident, independent readers in English while keeping their Ukrainian. A senior data science and AI leader with over 20 years of experience, Natalia relocated to the UK from Ukraine with her two young daughters in 2022. Watching her daughters quickly gain conversational fluency yet struggle to independently read complex curriculum texts inspired her to build the tool they needed.

Through weekly and fortnightly reading clubs, children read classic and GCSE set texts alongside modern fiction on the ReadTwo platform, with English and Ukrainian side by side and short, human-checked notes that explain idioms and cultural references without interrupting the story.

Backed by the Shackleton Foundation Leadership Award, the Brave Readers programme is running across the 2026-27 school year – free to schools and families – across primary and secondary state schools in Greater London and a UK-wide online charity for displaced Ukrainian pupils, and is expanding to further community and educational settings across the UK.