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

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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.

  • National Literacy Trust logo

    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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  • The Reading Agency logo

    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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  • BookTrust logo

    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 logo

    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 logo

    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

    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 logo

    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 logo

    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 logo

    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.

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Lead delivery partners

Scotland

Lead delivery partners

Northern Ireland

“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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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.

Pledge your support

4 All Foundation

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

Bookshop.org

BookTastic

Brevity – The Isle of Wight’s Literary Handbill

Bright Light Education

British Dyslexia Association

Bude Literary Festival

Busy Bees

CALFEVENTS CIC

Calibre Audio

Callywith College

Cambian Bletchley Park School

Centre for Literacy in Primary Education (CLPE)

Chartered College of Teaching

Chestnut Books

Children Reading for Life

Children’s Book Project

Christ Church Literature Society

CILIP

City Year UK

Cranbrook Literature Festival

Crescent Arts Centre

Dollywood Foundation UK

Dolphin Computer Access

East Norfolk Sixth Form College

East Staffs Family Hub

East Suffolk Council

Education Authority (Education Library Service)

EmpathyLab

Everton Library Trust Ltd

Federation of Children’s Book Groups

Festival of Brilliant

Fighting Words NI

Fishburn Primary School

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)

Gressenhall Farm & Workhouse (Norfolk Museums Service)

Harrogate International Festivals

Headstart Kernow (Cornwall Council)

Heaton Wilson Books

Henry Dancer Days

HMP Styal

Huncote Community Library

Jacari

Jigsaw

KwizEd Ltd

Lakes International Comic Art Festival

LCC Cultural Services

Leek Town Council and Staffs Moorlands District Council

Lexia UK

Libraries Connected

Libraries Rising

Libraries Unlimited

Libraro

Libresoft

Literacy Pirates

Literally Shepton

Little Hibba

Liverpool Learning Partnership

Longshore Community Junior School

Magical Childhoods Early Years Consultancy

Mahogony Opera

Maximize Education

Mind in the City, Hackney & Waltham Forest


Motion Storybooks

MR Tutor

Nancy Blackett Trust

National Centre for Writing

Newcastle Family Hub

New Writing North

NIFCA

Norfolk Museums Service

Novellic

Oakham Book Swap

One Education Ltd

Oriel Square Limited

OUTSIDE Creative People & Places

Paper Tales

Pearson

Peterborough Cultural Alliance

Petrichor Wool Studio

Philip Kavvadias (Author/Illustrator)

Plymouth Albion RFC

Promote Your School

Public Health South Tees

Ralph Sadleir School

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 Nottingham

Read Easy Peterborough

Read Easy Poole and Bournemouth

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

ReadingWise

Ringmer Village Library

School Library Association

Schoolreaders

School Walls

Sheels Educational Ltd

Shelf Rockers LTD

Shipston Bookfest

Shoreham Wordfest

Softwood Books

Sound AiSleep

Speech & Language Link

Spike’s Sight Words

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 Bell Foundation

The Book Stop

The Bright Agency

The British Library

The Careers & Enterprise Company

The Children’s Literacy Charity

The Dirigible Balloon

The Eastbourne Academy

The Flitwits Ltd

The Hub @ Greenford Library

The London Borough of Barking and Dagenham

The Lounges

The National Archives Education Service

The New Carnival Company CIC

The Open University

The Place

The Portico Library

The Premier League

The Reader

The Reading Jackdaw

The Rugby Football League

The Secret Book Swap

The Sensory Storyteller CIC

The Story Sack

The Story Trail / Amaze

The Very Group

Tickhill Community Library

Tyneside and Northumberland Mind

Urban Hybrid Architecture

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