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BookLife are re-launching their popular match funding programme across all UK schools for 2018/19.

The winners of Kickaround magazine's inaugural short story competition have been announced.

Our survey of almost 50,000 UK children reveals that those who engage the most with reading and writing are three times more likely to have better mental wellbeing than their peers.

25 schools will win a visit from authors including Katherine Rundell, Dave Cousins, Matt Oldfield and more.

We are delighted to launch an exciting comic strip competition with Penguin Random House, as part of the North East campaign. It gives pupils across the region the opportunity to meet...

Supporters of our work abseiled down Liverpool Street’s Broadgate Tower to raise money for our work.

We are thrilled to announce the launch of our new Words for Work: Women in Leadership programme, in partnership with Lancôme.

A partnership with Mr Men Little Miss and Haliborange has seen 13,000 Mr Men Little Miss books given out to families across four of the areas in which we run Hubs and local campaigns.

We’re supporting McDonald’s for their fifth Happy Readers campaign, which supports families to read together by giving away free books in every Happy Meal™.

As we continue to celebrate 25 years of the National Literacy Trust, we’re treating our audience to the next exciting installment of our podcast.

We are thrilled to announce that our BBC Radio 4 charity appeal is now live, presented by TV and radio favourite Gaby Roslin.

We are a founding member of the Department for Education’s new coalition which aims to halve the number of five-year-olds who start school without good early language and communication...

Children’s author Hilary Robinson joined pupils from St Mary and St Pancras Primary School yesterday to celebrate the Young Readers Programme.

We are thrilled to announce that Penguin Random House has chosen us as its Charity of the Year. 

We’ve teamed up with easyJet to create top tips and creative ideas to help encourage children to practice their literacy skills over the summer holidays. 

We have just published the 2017 evaluation of our Books Unlocked programme, which supports those in prisons and young offender institutions to read for pleasure.

This week we were joined by authors, teachers, partners and supporters of our work for our annual summer party, kindly hosted by Hachette UK. 

News UK has chosen the National Literacy Trust as one of four charities to benefit from its annual News Corp Giving fund.

Our parliamentary inquiry into fake news and critical literacy has just published its final report.

Children and young people’s enjoyment of writing and how often they write in their spare time is in decline, according to a new report we have published today.

With the World Cup around the corner, we’ve created a kit bag full of football-themed activities and resources to inspire children’s reading and writing.