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We have launched a new programme to boost the reading skills and life chances of excluded young people through the power of football, called Game Changers.

Nine-year-old Fern Brindle from Derbyshire has won the 2019 Jacqueline Wilson Creative Writing Prize.

Her Royal Highness joined Booker Prize authors and prison librarians, to celebrate the 7th anniversary of the National Literacy Trust’s Books Unlocked programme.

We launched our latest Literacy Hub in Doncaster this week.

Bestselling author Adele Parks has today pledged to spread a love of reading throughout her home town as she takes on a new role as ambassador of our Middlesbrough Reads campaign.

We have partnered with the University of Birmingham to launch the new Birmingham Stories campaign.

We teamed up with children’s author Dave Cousins and ALCS to bring an exciting crime writing tour to primary schools across the UK.

Children and their parents from Abingdon Primary School were invited to Riverside Stadium, the home of Middlesbrough FC, to take part in the first ever NewsWise family festival

Bradford schools and communities celebrate the launch of the Bradford Stories Festival.

We're supporting McDonald's for their sixth Happy Readers campaign, which supports families reading together by giving away free books in every Happy Meal™ over five weeks.

Sunday 8 September is International Literacy Day, organised by the UN. This year, we’re asking for your help and support.

Year 6 pupil, Ben, from Manor Primary School in Merseyside has won our Roy of the Rovers motto writing competition with his winning words, “Work Hard, Win Well”.

We held a special event at the IP-City Centre in Ipswich to celebrate the 116 early years practitioners who took part in our Champions for Children

We’ve pulled together a bundle of summer activities to help children make the most of the holidays, while also boosting their literacy skills.

We have just launched Story Quest, a brand new initiative to increase levels of literacy and physical activity in families in Stoke-on-Trent.

To encourage summer holiday reading, children's authors show off their favorite reading spots, following new research which reveals the top places kids most like to read.

We've teamed up with easyJet to launch a summer on-board lending library, with over 60,000 books stocked on more than 300 aircraft, serving 20 million passengers.

To celebrate 20 years of Usborne’s That’s not my… books, the leading independent children’s publishing house is donating hundreds of books to Read On Nottingham summer book giveaways.

We hosted a special event at MECA in Swindon to celebrate its Skills Academy reading intervention, sponsored by Clarks

Our new survey found that author visits to schools have a positive relationship with pupils’ reading skills – but only 1 in 4 pupils had an author visit in the past year.

We're encouraging families in Hastings to get outside and practise their communication and literacy skills this summer with a new Lost Words Trail around the town.