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Ant and Dec “Take 10” to read with school children across the UK this Mental Health Awareness Week

Represent is our inspiring new programme designed for girls aged 11 to 14 in alternative provision, or at risk of being excluded from mainstream education.

Last Wednesday 20 April, Get Suffolk Reading officially launched its activity in Lowestoft, with a storytelling trail around the town centre.

As a result of the Chase Rewarding Futures programme, schools will benefit from 400 new books alongside e-readers and audio books. Teachers will also receive bespoke training to...

Today we are launching the 2022 Vision for Literacy Business Pledge. The award-winning Pledge is now in its seventh year and 88 businesses have committed to working to improve...

Today the Department for Education have published their Schools White Paper which sets out their plan for how to deliver this target and support the literacy skills of pupils across...

New insights into young people's attitudes to podcasts and their benefits.

Today we launch a new report funded by Audible showing the positive effect audiobooks have on people of all ages.

We are delighted to formally welcome Joanna Prior, a leading figure in publishing as our new Chair.

We marked a very special World Book Day in Middlesbrough with lots of book gifting across the town.

To celebrate 25 years of World Book Day, we distributed 36,000 World Book Day titles via libraries in our 15 Hub areas.

We marked a very special World Book Day in Manchester with lots of activities for schools in partnership with Manchester Libraries.

We celebrated the 25 anniversary of World Book Day with a host of exciting activities and events. Find out more about what we got up to throughout the week.

Pupils in 524 primary schools in England, Scotland and Wales will be celebrating World Book Day on Thursday 3 March with new books for their school library, donated by the Morrisons...

We've been developing our work with Burberry and Marcus Rashford through a creative project supporting our aim to provide children with access to inspiring library spaces.

This Children’s Mental Health Week, we’re supporting schools and families to join or continue their #Take10ToRead challenge to support their wellbeing through the joy of reading...

On Thursday 20 January, we held an event to celebrate the work of the Vision for Literacy Business Pledge. At this event, we also held our first Business Awards, in association with...

We have kicked off a series of events and resources and invite schools across the UK to join the magic.

Today, the government unveiled its flagship Levelling Up White Paper. Jonathan Douglas CBE, Chief Executive of the National Literacy Trusts reflects on the announcement.

Today we kick off Storytelling Week by launching the brand-new Storytelling Month to celebrate the value and skill of speaking multiple languages and the ways that these voices and...