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Our patron, Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Cornwall, has launched an Instagram-based book club called The Reading Room

We've teamed up with author Tom Palmer to produce free resources teachers can use with pupils learning at home or in the classroom to help commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day

We’re very excited to announce our new campaign, Words that Count, which aims to boost the financial literacy and understanding of 800,000 young people living in and around Greater...

The Reading Tree Challenge, our first school Reading Champions Challenge for this academic year, was a huge success and the winning school from our prize draw has been revealed!

To celebrate 15 years of working with WHSmith Trust and WHSmith, we launched the WHSmith Ultimate Writing Challenge and we are delighted to announce the winners!

We are delighted to extend the Behind the Cover audiobook club to provide additional support during the holidays for young women in partnership with Lancôme.

Since the first lockdown started in March, Read Manchester has gifted more than 22,000 books and magazines to help keep children reading

This year we launched The Great Copyright Hunt © – a brand new competition for children and young people aged 5 to 14 to hunt down the famous copyright symbol in their homes in...

Hip hop artist, author and poet Karl Nova wins Ruth Rendell Award 2020 for his outstanding contribution to supporting young people’s literacy

Milan Kumar from Bolton, has given months of his time this year to support other children whose literacy and learning have been most affected by COVID-19 and now puts his amazing...

Christmas crafts with Hungry Little Minds and Manchester Art Gallery

We publish new research into diversity in children’s literature as part of our Christmas fundraising campaign alongside a new booklist which champions representation in children’s...

Today, with the generous support of the Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS), we are delighted to launch a national reading campaign called Reading Champions.

We’ve teamed up with Bupa Foundation to gift 15,000 paperback copies of The Book of Hopes (Bloomsbury Publishing) to thousands of primary schools across the country

Today, we published a comprehensive review of literature looking at the impact of COVID-19 on families’ wellbeing and how this impacts the home learning environment.

We are launching a new initiative called Connecting Stories across our 14 Hub areas thanks to funding from Arts Council England

Our Chief Executive Jonathan Douglas CBE gave evidence to the Education Select Committee as part of their inquiry into the educational underachievement of pupils from disadvantaged...

Pippi Longstocking burst into children’s lives 75 years ago and has inspired generation after generation to seek adventures and follow their dreams.

We launch a brand new children’s radio and podcast series Story Explorers, all about stories for 7 to 11-year-olds, available on Fun Kids.

Last week, we launched the Local Literacy Leaders’ Network, a national network for local leaders.