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Today we celebrated the launch of our charity partnership with the Telegraph Sports Book Awards at a very special event!

We launch our new Close the Gap campaign, aimed at closing the literacy gap once and for all.

79 leading businesses have committed to taking action in their local communities to address low literacy levels.

We recently hosted a celebration event at Uplands Primary School to mark the success of our Early Words Together at Three programme in Leicester

Our prison reading programme, Books Unlocked, has just announced the 10 books that participants will have available to read in 2020.

Primary school pupils across England and Wales are being encouraged to write poems based on the theme of ‘ambition’.

The Oscar-winning actress and New York Times best-selling author Lupita N'yongo visited Harris Academy students today to support our Words for Work: Women in Leadership...

We gifted 239,894 books to children across the UK in the past year.

Children's author Konnie Huq is supporting the Where's Wally?fun run this year! She will be at the Olympic Park on race day to cheer on the runners and sign copies of her...

Elise Renshaw of Kingsway Primary School wins The Gruffalo's 20th anniversary writing competition

In partnership with Lancôme we have launched an online platform designed to help young women find the practical resources and guides they need to help secure their first job.

The latest PISA results have now been released. Published by the OECD, they look at the reading skills of around 600,000 15-year-olds from 79 countries across the world.

Reluctant reader turned children’s author, Tom Palmer, has won the Ruth Rendell Award 2019 for his efforts to champion literacy throughout the UK over the past year.

Joanna Prior has been elected as Vice Chair of our board of Trustees, we announced today.

We published new research today which revealed that 383,775 children in the UK don’t have a single book of their own.

Young people in custody who participate in our Inside Stories programme have had their writing illustrated by cartoon and comic arts students from Staffordshire University.

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.