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 neighbourhood to national. They are the secretariat for the Literacy Link.
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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
“Multi-sector partnerships will be crucial for reinvigorating the nation’s relationship with reading.”
Jonathan Douglas CBE
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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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 & Assessment
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Canongate
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Catalyst
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Clore Duffield Foundation
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Crowdfunder
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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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KPMG
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Magic Cat Publishing
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Meta
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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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PPA
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Publishers Association
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Ransom Publishing
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Renaissance
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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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TG Jones
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Thames & Hudson
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Twinkl
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WHSmith
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, please complete our form.
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3rd Alcester Brownies
4 All Foundation
ABC Book Club
Accuracy Matters Limited
Addey and Stanhope School
Angela Marie James (author)
Appledore Book Festival
ARCh Assisted Reading for Children Oxfordshire
Artisan Creative
Aspire UK Academy
Assisting Berkshire Children to Read
Austin Macauley Publishers
Back on Track
Bay Tales
Belfast Book Club
Belfast Learning City
Big Heart Book Club
Bookbanks
Book Club Friends
Book Clubs in Schools
Book Jotter
Books for Keeps
BooksForTopics
Bookshop.org
BookTastic
Branova Labs Limited
Brevity – The Isle of Wight’s Literary Handbill
Bright Light Education
British Dyslexia Association
Bude Literary Festival
Bus Different
Busy Bees
CALFEVENTS CIC
Calibre Audio
Callywith College
Cambian Bletchley Park School
Carleton Book Club
Catch Up
Centre for Literacy in Primary Education (CLPE)
Chartered College of Teaching
Chestnut Books
Children Reading for Life
Children’s Book Project
Chiltern Voice FM
Chiswick Book Festival
Christ Church Literature Society
CILIP
City Year UK
Community Managed Libraries National Peer Network
Coventry Cathedral
Cranbrook Literature Festival
Crescent Arts Centre
Delight
Dollywood Foundation UK
Dolphin Computer Access
Doorstep Library
East Norfolk Sixth Form College
East Staffs Family Hub
East Suffolk Council
Education Authority (Education Library Service)
Emma Bettridge Projects
Emmie’s Book
EmpathyLab
Erewash Museum
Everton Library Trust Ltd
Federation of Children’s Book Groups
Festival of Brilliant
Fighting Words NI
First Story
Fishburn Primary School
Flux Rotherham
Formara Limted
Fox Lane Books
Friends of Carnforth Library Group
Friends of Jesmond Library
Fringe by the Sea
Gatehouse Books Limited
GAVO
Girlguiding Devon
Give a Book
Glasgow Life (Glasgow Libraries)
Golden Egg Academy
Greener Littleover
Gressenhall Farm & Workhouse (Norfolk Museums Service)
Guildford Book Festival
Harrogate International Festivals
Headstart Kernow (Cornwall Council)
Heaton Wilson Books
Henry Dancer Days
Hewson Books Ltd
HMP Lincoln
HMP Styal
Huncote Community Library
Jacari
Jigsaw
Keyham Green Places (Community Regeneration Outreach Projects)
King’s Lynn Book Festival
KwizEd Ltd
Lakes & Dales Coop (Part of Scotmid group)
Lakes International Comic Art Festival
LCC Cultural Services
Learning Ladders Tuition
Leek Town Council and Staffs Moorlands District Council
Lexia UK
Libraries Connected
Libraries Rising
Libraries Unlimited
Libraro
Libresoft
Literacy Pirates
Literacy Volunteers
Literally Shepton
Little Hibba
Liverpool Learning Partnership
London LGBTQ+ Community Centre
Longshore Community Junior School
Lord-Lieutenant of Shropshire
Magical Childhoods Early Years Consultancy
Mahogony Opera
Maximize Education
Merton Libraries
Mind in the City, Hackney & Waltham Forest
Motion Storybooks
MR Tutor
Nancy Blackett Trust
National Centre for Writing
Newcastle City Council
Newcastle Family Hub
New Writing North
NIFCA
Norfolk Museums Service
North Edinburgh News
North Lincolnshire Children’s Literacy Trust
Novellic
Oakham Book Swap
One Education Ltd
Oriel Square Limited
OUTSIDE Creative People & Places
Paper Tales
Parenting Team – Cornwall Council
Patoss Dyslexia Charity
Pearson
PeoplePlus
Peterborough Cultural Alliance
Petrichor Wool Studio
Philip Kavvadias (Author/Illustrator)
Plymouth Albion RFC
Plymouth Literary festival
Promote Your School
Public Health South Tees
Punchdrunk Enrichment
Ralph Sadleir School
Reaching People
Read Easy Bath
Read Easy Birmingham SE and Solihull
Read Easy Birmingham South West
Read Easy Cambridge
Read Easy Derby & District
Read Easy Hackney
Read Easy Haringey
Read Easy Lambeth
Read Easy Merseyside
Read Easy Mid Warwickshire
Read Easy Newcastle and North Tyneside
Read Easy North Somerset
Read Easy Nottingham
Read Easy Peterborough
Read Easy Poole and Bournemouth
Read Easy Shropshire Hills and Read Easy Telford and Shropshire East
Read Easy Southampton & Isle of Wight
Read Easy Southwark
Read Easy South Worcestershire
Read Easy Stockport
Read Easy UK
Read Easy West Berkshire
Readers Together
Read for Good
Reading 2 Smile
Reading Fairy Global
Reading Recovery Europe
ReadingWise
Ringmer Village Library
River Valley Literary Society
Sally Beazley Dyslexia Specialist
School Library Association
Schoolreaders
School Walls
Sheels Educational Ltd
Sheffield Hallam University
Shelf Rockers LTD
Seven Stories | The National Centre for Children’s Books
Shipston Bookfest
Shoreham Wordfest
Softwood Books
Sound AiSleep
Speech & Language Link
Spike’s Sight Words
Spitalfields City Farm
St Andrews Bookshop
Stapleford Granary Arts Centre
St Columba’s Church of Scotland
Step into Stories with Bewdley Festival
Stoke High School, Ormiston Academy
Story Zoo
Stuart Roden
Suffolk Mind
Surrey County Council Fostering Service
Tamworth Family Hub
Teachmate
TeachMy
Teach Us Too
TeamADL CIC
The Abbotsford Trust
The Art Room
The Bell Foundation
The Book Fairies
The Book Stop
The Bright Agency
The British Library
The Careers & Enterprise Company
The Children’s Book Project
The Children’s Literacy Charity
The Day News & Media Ltd
The Dirigible Balloon
The Eastbourne Academy
The Flitwits Ltd
The Happy Confident Company
The Hub @ Greenford Library
The London Borough of Barking and Dagenham
The Lounges
The National Archives Education Service
The New Carnival Company CIC
The New Saints FC Foundation Ltd
The Old Department Store
The Open University
The Place
The Poetry Society
The Portico Library
The Premier League
The Reader
The Reading Jackdaw
The Rugby Football League
The Scottish Fisheries Museum
The Secret Book Swap
The Sensory Storyteller CIC
The Story Museum
The Story Sack
The Story Trail / Amaze
The Very Group
Tickhill Community Library
Treehouse Festival
Tyneside and Northumberland Mind
Urban Hybrid Architecture
UKLA
Voice 21
Voxblock
Wallasey Village Library & Community Centre
Warwick District Council
Warwickshire Lieutenancy
Weeping Bank
West Belfast Partnership Board
Wigtown Festival Company
Whole School SEND
William Austin Junior School
World Kid Lit CIC
WRD Magazine
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Young Writers