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We partner with global information services company, Experian, to launch Words that Count, a national campaign that will boost the financial literacy and understanding of 6 million...

Free Holocaust Memorial Day teaching resources with award-winning children’s book author Tom Palmer.Absorbing and educational resources plus live event designed to help teachers...

Read Manchester announce giveaway of 12,000 Marcus Rashford books for schools in Manchester

Thousands of children to attend author event with Jane Riordan as part of our celebrations for Winnie-the-Pooh day.

To celebrate storytelling week, we have brought together some top storytelling resources you can share with your pupils to encourage them to read, write or tell their own stories

Throughout December, we delivered our largest Facebook Live series yet, led by our Home Learning Environment team in partnership with Macmillan Children’s Books.

Along with our partner Macmillan Children’s Books, we are delighted to welcome KPMG onboard to the Marcus Rashford Book Club initiative where, together, we will continue the mission...

Chase launches new initiative to boost primary school literacy

Read Manchester launches See Myself in Books drive to help schools promote wider diversity in children’s literature.

More than 2 in 5 (44%) girls aged 8 to 18 say that they don’t enjoy reading, according to our new report, Forgotten Girls: The Reluctant Girl Readers, we published today, with...

Cecilia Knapp is awarded for her outstanding contribution to supporting young people’s literacy. The Ruth Rendell Award honours the author or writer who has done the most to...

Lancôme UK has announced it will continue for a third season the Behind the Cover audiobook club.

Enterprise Rent-A-Car funding enables National Literacy Trust to gift 23,000 books to 240 schools in nine cities to promote reading recovery after the pandemic

Last week, over 300 children were virtually visited by children's author Ross Welford to celebrate the winners of our Storystarter competition.

We hosted a virtual schools event, in partnership with Canongate Books, to celebrate the film release of Matt Haig's bestselling novel A Boy Called Christmas.

Burberry has partnered with Marcus Rashford MBE to help organisations enhance library experiences for children and young people from disadvantaged communities.

We have launched our Teacher Wellbeing website with support from partner Wesleyan.

Today, along with Penguin Random House UK, we launch a national alliance to address the chronic lack of investment in primary school libraries in the UK.

A new interactive story trail from Read Manchester and the National Literacy Trust has launched this week at Wythenshawe Park.