Our Partners
Working hand in hand to inspire reading
We couldn't deliver the National Year of Reading 2026 without our dedicated Partners and Sponsors
Lead delivery partners
A formidable force for change
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 the neighbourhood level to the national stage.
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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
“Hard work is one thing, but it wouldn't be possible without the support of our sponsors”
Jonathan Douglas
Chief Executive of the National Literacy Trust
Funders and Sponsors
Our funders and sponsors make the year possible
The National Year of Reading is fuelled by organisations who believe in the power of reading and are willing to invest in change. Our sponsors contribute funding, expertise and resources that help us deliver events, build tools and expand the impact of the campaign across the UK.
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Amazon
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Arts Council England
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Authorfy
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b small
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Bloomberg
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Bloomsbury
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Bonnier Books UK
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Booksellers Association
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Cambridge University Press
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Canongate
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Catalyst
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Clore Duffield Foundation
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David Fickling Books
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DC Thomson
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Department for Education (DfE)
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Digital Cinema Media
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Faber & Faber
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Hachette UK
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HarperCollins
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HM Prison & Probation Service
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Into Film
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John Wiley & Sons Ltd
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Julia Rausing Trust
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Magic Cat Publishing
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National Book Tokens
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Nosy Crow
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Oxford University Press
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Pan Macmillan
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Pearson
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Penguin Random House
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Pickatale
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Publishers Association
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Ransom Publishing
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SAGE Publishing
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Simon & Schuster UK
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Spotify
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Sweet Cherry Publishing
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Thames & Hudson
Pledge Partners
Organisations that have pledged their support
The following partner organisations have pledged their support towards the National Year of Reading. These pledges include resources, volunteers, events, activities, co-branding and more.
If your organisation would like to pledge and be listed below, please complete our form.
Assisting Berkshire Children to Read
Belfast Learning City
Book Clubs in Schools
British Dyslexia Association
Children’s Book Project
Clore Duffield Foundation
CILIP
Crescent Arts Centre
Department for Education Northern Ireland (DENI)
East Suffolk Council
Education Authority (Education Library Service)
EmpathyLab
Fighting Words NI
KPMG UK
Libraries Connected
Libraries NI
Libraries Rising
Literacy Pirates
Mind in the City, Hackney & Waltham Forest
OUTSIDE Creative People & Places
Plymouth Albion RFC
School Library Association
Schoolreaders
Stuart Roden
The British Library
The Children’s Literacy Charity
The Open University
The Premier League
The Very Group
Tyneside and Northumberland Mind
West Belfast Partnership Board
Whole School SEND
about
The story behind the campaign
The National Year of Reading 2026 is a Department for Education initiative designed to inspire more people across the UK to make reading a regular part of their lives.