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Partnerships that change life stories

Everyone deserves the opportunity to learn the literacy skills they need to thrive. But across the UK, too many children and young adults are growing up without the support, confidence and opportunities they need to become confident readers, writers, and communicators.

By partnering with the National Literacy Trust, your business can help families, schools, and communities build brighter futures through literacy.

Get in touch now to change life stories at partnerships@literacytrust.org.uk

Why businesses partner with us

Literacy underpins social mobility, fuels economic growth, and breaks cycles of poverty. Businesses have a vital role to play in supporting the literacy skills of the next generation and the development of a future workforce that is inclusive and able to grow.

Over 116 businesses work with us to raise literacy levels across the country.

Engaging your employees

Give your teams meaningful ways to make a difference. From volunteering and fundraising to skills-based support and workplace campaigns, we create opportunities that connect employees to real impact in communities across the UK.
Support your local community

You can fund local literacy programmes, donate resources, support schools, or volunteering in community initiatives that improve literacy outcomes in disadvantaged areas.
Create impactful partnerships

Work with on campaigns, products, or customer initiatives to include your suppliers and clients, aligning your brand with social impact and educational opportunity.
Supporting national change

Support evidence-based campaigns and programmes that tackle literacy inequality at scale.

Corporate volunteering opportunities

Volunteering can play a vital role in supporting the literacy skills of the next generation as part of your organisation’s wider partnership with the National Literacy Trust, creating rewarding opportunities for colleagues to make meaningful impact in disadvantaged communities.

Volunteer activities could include:

Inspiring young people to read, write, and communicate with confidence by supporting at events as part of our work in schools
Getting books into the hands of children and young people who need them the most by helping at community and book gifting events delivered through our national network of literacy hubs
Creating book packs to be distributed through our literacy hub network to local communities
Fundraising challenge events – whether you want to run, hike, cycle, or try something a little more adventurous to raise money for our work, we’ve got the event for you!

However you volunteer, we all have the same mission: helping people facing the toughest literacy challenges and change their life chances through the power of words.

To make business volunteering part of your partnership with the National Literacy Trust, get in touch today at partnerships@literacytrust.org.uk

"When I learnt that there are children who do not even own a single book, I felt this was something I really wanted to support. One of my proudest moments was helping establish a community bookshelf at a local homeless charity and providing resources that could help people move towards a better future. I enjoy knowing that even small actions can contribute to a much bigger goal and make a real difference in different ways.”
Éva Mészáros, administrative assistant and community ambassador at Amazon