Lead Strategic Partners
Working hand in hand to inspire reading
The National Year of Reading is a Department for Education initiative, developed in collaboration with partners across the literacy sector.
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Backbone organisation
National Literacy Trust
The National Literacy Trust empowers people with literacy skills, supporting children, adults, schools, families and communities nationwide to improve reading, writing, speaking and listening and change their stories.
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lead libraries partner
The Reading Agency
The Reading Agency is a UK charity that inspires social and personal change through transformative reading programmes, activities and campaigns.
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Lead early years partner
BookTrust
BookTrust is the UK’s largest children’s reading charity, reaching over 1.4 million children and families. Our programmes help children to enjoy the benefits of shared reading from the earliest age.
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Bookmark Reading Charity
Driven by a simple vision, to ensure every child can read, Bookmark Reading Charity partners with primary schools in disadvantaged areas to support children who need it most.
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Chapter One
Chapter One supports children facing disadvantage to thrive through reading. We connect them with corporate volunteers for personalised weekly sessions that build skills, confidence and a lifelong love of reading.
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Coram Beanstalk
Coram Beanstalk believes that every child deserves the magic of books. They champion reading for pleasure as the best path to becoming a reader through a national network of volunteer reading helpers.
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Fair Education Alliance
The Fair Education Alliance is a cross-sector coalition of organisations tackling educational inequity through a systems change approach, working from neighbourhood to national. They are the secretariat for the Literacy Link.
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Schoolreaders
Schoolreaders is the largest in-school literacy charity in England. Partnered with a quarter of primary schools, they provide trained volunteers to listen to children read in weekly one-to-one sessions, improving life-chances.
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The Queen’s Reading Room
The Queen’s Reading Room champions reading through neuroscientific research, grassroots partnerships and world-class literary programming reaching twelve million people annually across 174 countries.
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World Book Day
The reading for fun charity. World Book Day inspires children to see reading differently because they’re more likely to read if they see it as a fun, social thing to do.
Lead delivery partners
Scotland
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DC Thomson
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Scottish Book Trust
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The Scottish Book and Information Council
Lead delivery partners
Northern Ireland
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Department of Education NI
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Education Authority
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Libraries NI
Support the campaign
Help bring the National Year of Reading to life
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Become a Pledge Partner
Pledging your support means committing time, energy or expertise to help make the campaign visible and reading more accessible.
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Sponsor the National Year of Reading
Sponsorship provides the funding that enables the campaign to scale and reach a larger audience across the UK.
