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74 leading businesses have signed the Vision for Literacy Business Pledge 2019, committing to tackle the UK’s literacy challenge.

As of today, shoppers and bargain hunters on eBay will have the opportunity to donate to our work, through the eBay for Charity programme!

Our Read North East campaign launched its new Redcar Early Years Partnership today with a storytelling event for children.

To celebrate the return of the classic Roy of the Rovers comic, we have teamed up with Rebellion to ask pupils write a club motto for Roy’s iconic football team, Melchester Rovers.

We have just launched a new campaign to improve literacy for young people in Hastings and St Leonards thanks to a partnership with the Department for Education’s Opportunity Area in...

We were delighted to welcome HRH The Duchess of Cornwall to Swindon on Thursday 24 January to celebrate the work being done by Swindon Stories.

2018 was our 25th birthday, and we marked the occasion by demonstrating why the need to raise literacy levels in the UK is more pressing than ever.

The latest instalment in our podcast celebrating our 25th anniversary is now live.

We launch our Christmas fundraising campaign to give disadvantaged children books of their own.

New funding from Clarks will enable schools to purchase the programme for just £100

The future is bright for our Hubs in Nottingham and Peterborough, thanks to an injection of National Lottery funding from the Big Lottery Fund.

The Read On. Get On. coalition has launched a new report and some exciting resources from Cressida Cowell today, with a focus on closing the gender gap in children’s reading.

Author and illustrator Frann Preston-Gannon visited Peter Hills with St Mary’s and St Paul's C of E Primary School in Rotherhithe to open their brand-new school library.

Author Marcia Williams also lead a school activity inspired by a Charles Dickens exhibit at the Wisbech & Fenland museum.

Prizes include a Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Meltdown print signed by Jeff Kinney, £100 worth of Puffin Books, and £500 worth of Puffin Books for the winner’s school.

Rebellion has generously donated 10,000 Roy of the Rover books to children in all of our National Literacy Trust Hubs.

Leading UK businesses gathered at the annual Vision for Literacy Business Pledge summit in London today to commit to tackling the nation’s literacy challenge.

Join us on Clapham Common on 17 March 2019!

In partnership with HarperCollins, we are delighted to announce that bestselling crime author Mel Sherratt will become an ambassador for the National Literacy Trust.

The Premier League Writing Stars poetry competition is back for a second year, with exciting judges including Rio Ferdinand, Olly Murs, Lauren Child, and our very own Jonathan Douglas.

Children are writing and sending letters more than ever , according to new research from the National Literacy Trust, Oxford University Press and Blue Peter.