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We’re so excited to be working with Bupa Foundation to launch Well Ahead, our new platform encouraging young people to use creative writing as a way to process events from the wider...View details about We launch creative writing and wellbeing platform Well Ahead -
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Our prison reading programme, Books Unlocked, has just announced its first book list for 2021.View details about We unveil 2021 Books Unlocked reading list -
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We’re delighted to announce a new three-year partnership with Hachette UK in which we will co-create programmes to help children, young people and adults in disadvantaged...View details about We announce new three year partnership with Hachette UK -
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This Children’s Mental Health Week, we are supporting children’s mental health charity Place2Be and their mission to shine a spotlight on the importance of children and young...View details about This Children’s Mental Health Week, we are supporting Place2Be and their mission to shine a spotlight on the importance of children and young people’s mental health -
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We are delighted to announce that 18 publishers and 32 authors are involved in our Connecting Stories campaign.View details about Brilliant publishers and authors join our Connecting Stories campaign -
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Our patron, Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Cornwall, has launched an Instagram-based book club called The Reading RoomView details about We are excited to support HRH The Duchess of Cornwall’s Reading Room as Season One launches -
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Today, we’re delighted to relaunch our Virtual School Library in partnership with Oak National Academy, the country’s online classroom set up in response to COVID-19. The Virtual...View details about Jacqueline Wilson is our first Author of the Week of our relaunched Virtual School Library with Oak National Academy! -
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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!View details about The Reading Tree Challenge flourishes across schools and prize draw winning school revealed! -
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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!View details about National Literacy Trust, WHSmith and WHSmith Trust celebrate 15 year partnership which has given away over 70,000 books to children who need them most -
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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.View details about We relaunch our Behind the Cover book club this winter and celebrate our initiatives with Lancôme! -
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Since the first lockdown started in March, Read Manchester has gifted more than 22,000 books and magazines to help keep children readingView details about Read Manchester set to donate 30,000 books by the end of the year -
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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...View details about Winners of the Great Copyright Hunt revealed! -
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Hip hop artist, author and poet Karl Nova wins Ruth Rendell Award 2020 for his outstanding contribution to supporting young people’s literacyView details about Karl Nova wins Ruth Rendell Award 2020 for outstanding contribution to literacy -
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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...View details about Eight year old Milan publishes new book as part of his amazing work this year to raise over £3,000 for the National Literacy Trust -
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Christmas crafts with Hungry Little Minds and Manchester Art GalleryView details about Christmas crafts with Hungry Little Minds and Manchester Art Gallery -
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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...View details about This Christmas, we launch new research which reveals a third of children don’t see themselves in the books they read -
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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.View details about We launch a series of national reading challenges and a schools book quiz -
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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 countryView details about We gift 15,000 copies of The Book of Hopes to 5,000 primary schools with Bupa Foundation