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Our Where's Wally? fun run returns for the seventh year
Join us on Clapham Common on 17 March 2019!
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Keep up to date with the latest literacy news.
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Premier League Writing Stars competition launches with judges Rio Ferdinand and Olly Murs
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.
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We celebrate Blue Peter’s 60th birthday with new letter writing research
Children are writing and sending letters more than ever , according to new research from the National Literacy Trust, Oxford University Press and Blue Peter.
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Win a visit to your book club from Adele Parks, Milly Johnson or Dorothy Koomson
Your book club could host a visit from a bestselling author by raising money for our work!
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Minister for Children and Families launches new parental engagement programme in Bradford
Nadhim Zahawi MP, Minister for Children and Families, visited our Bradford Hub today to launch our new parental engagement programme.
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We win National Lottery funding from Sport England to help families in Stoke get active and boost literacy skills
We have been funded for three years to deliver the Storienteering programme in partnership with StreetGames.
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Popular children's book characters visit King's Cross station for half term
Popular children’s book characters Where’s Wally? and Maisy Mouse were at King’s Cross railway station on Monday 22 October.
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Celebrate Libraries Week with us!
To celebrate Libraries Week (8-13 October) we’ve pulled together a range of inspirational new resources, author interviews, exclusive membership offers and more!
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We launch new National Literacy Trust Hub on the North Yorkshire Coast
We are delighted to launch our seventh National Literacy Trust Hub in partnership with the North Yorkshire Coast Opportunity Area. The new Hub will be known locally as Our Stories: Whitby, Scarborough, Filey.
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We’ve launched new research to celebrate National Poetry Day
To support National Poetry Day, we have conducted the first national survey of children and young people’s views on poetry in England.
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We launch new pilot programme with Puffin to inspire 13,000 primary school pupils to read for pleasure
We have launched a new pilot programme today in partnership with Puffin to inspire primary school children to read for pleasure.
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BookLife’s match funding scheme now available for all UK schools
BookLife are re-launching their popular match funding programme across all UK schools for 2018/19.
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World Cup short story competition winners announced
The winners of Kickaround magazine's inaugural short story competition have been announced.
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Children who enjoy reading and writing have significantly better mental wellbeing than their peers
Our survey of almost 50,000 UK children reveals that those who engage the most with reading and writing are three times more likely to have better mental wellbeing than their peers.
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Our new competition inspires pupils to explore their favourite place in a story
25 schools will win a visit from authors including Katherine Rundell, Dave Cousins, Matt Oldfield and more.
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We launch Diary of a Wimpy Kid comic strip competition for schools in the North East
We are delighted to launch an exciting comic strip competition with Penguin Random House, as part of the North East campaign. It gives pupils across the region the opportunity to meet globally loved children’s author of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, Jeff Kinney, at a multi-schools event, and win books for their school.
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Our brave supporters and corporate partners abseil down 35 floors to raise money for our work
Supporters of our work abseiled down Liverpool Street’s Broadgate Tower to raise money for our work.
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We launch Words for Work: Women in Leadership with Lancôme
We are thrilled to announce the launch of our new Words for Work: Women in Leadership programme, in partnership with Lancôme.
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We team up with Mr. Men Little Miss to give out 13,000 books in our Hubs
A partnership with Mr Men Little Miss and Haliborange has seen 13,000 Mr Men Little Miss books given out to families across four of the areas in which we run Hubs and local campaigns.
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We support McDonald’s Happy Readers campaign for the fifth year
We’re supporting McDonald’s for their fifth Happy Readers campaign, which supports families to read together by giving away free books in every Happy Meal™.
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In conversation with Greg James and Chris Smith
As we continue to celebrate 25 years of the National Literacy Trust, we’re treating our audience to the next exciting installment of our podcast.