Don the classic red and white stripes and run, walk or jog your own 1k, 5k or 10k route on 20 – 21 March to help support the literacy of disadvantaged children.
Join us for an evening of online entertainment, featuring actor and comedian Miles Jupp and guest authors Antony Beevor, Bill Bryson, Victoria Hislop and Konnie Huq.
To support teaching, both in the classroom and online, we have a range of free resources for early years, primary and secondary school classes.
Our Words for Life website provides parents, children and young people with activities and support to improve their language, literacy and communication skills from home.
We offer evidence-based resources, research, training, programmes and National Literacy Trust membership to make your literacy provision highly effective.
We target our work in the communities that need help most, working with local partners to deliver place-based solutions. National Literacy Trust Hubs create long-term change in communities where low levels of literacy are entrenched, intergenerational and seriously impacting on people’s lives.
Parents and the home learning environment have the greatest effect on how a child develops language and literacy skills. Our site Words for Life gives developmental milestones, tips, fun resources and advice to help parents support their children’s literacy development.
We rely on the generous support of individuals, communities and businesses to continue our vital work to transform lives through literacy.
Our policy and campaigning work raises awareness of the importance of literacy to make it a priority for politicians, businesses and parents.
Our research underpins our programmes, campaigns and policy work to improve literacy attitudes, habits and skills across the UK.
To mark International Women’s Day, we are celebrating the great work of our Words for Work: Women in Leadership programme which we run in partnership with Lancôme and our Young Writers team are hosting a live poetry session.
Author and illustrator of the best-selling How to Train Your Dragon books series, Cressida Cowell, virtually visited schools for an exciting Q&A on World Book Day, as part of Connecting Stories.
We teamed up with the Morrisons Foundation to give pupils in schools throughout England, Scotland and Wales a bundle of new books for their school library in celebration of World Book Day
