Pledge partners

Supporting reading across the UK

Our Pledge Partners represent a growing network of organisations committed to supporting the National Year of Reading. Each pledge helps make reading more accessible and loved across the UK.

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A growing network of
Pledge Partners

The following partner organisations have pledged their support towards the National Year of Reading. If your organisation would like to pledge and be listed, please complete our pledge form.

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Abbirose Adey ABC Book Club Ablaze Accuracy Matters Limited Achieve3000/McGraw Hill Education Afrori Books Alcester Town Council Ambition Lawrence Weston Angela Marie James (author) Anywhere Book Club Appledore Book Festival ARCh Assisted Reading for Children Oxfordshire Artisan Creative Assisting Berkshire Children to Read Austin Macauley Publishers

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Back on Track Back to Ours Arts Limited Barnardo's Barnes Literary Society Bay Tales Beaux Books Belfast Book Club Belfast Learning City Biddulph Town Council Big Heart Book Club Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Book Club Friends Book Clubs in Schools Book Jotter Bookbanks Books for Keeps BooksForTopics Bookshop.org BookTastic Bournville Village Trust Branova Labs Limited Brevity – The Isle of Wight's Literary Handbill Bright Light Education British Dyslexia Association Bruford Tutors Bude Literary Festival Burnley Words Festival Bus Different Busy Bees

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CALFEVENTS CIC Calibre Audio Camden Council Carleton Book Club Carlisle Foodbank Catch Up Centre for Literacy in Primary Education (CLPE) CENTREPEACE Chapter One Charco Press Charities Aid Foundation Charlottechaoticbooksxo 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 Citizens Advice North Staffordshire City Year UK Community Managed Libraries National Peer Network Coventry Cathedral Cranbrook Literature Festival Creative Lives Crescent Arts Centre

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Davies Delight Derby Book Festival Dollywood Foundation UK Dolphin Computer Access Doorstep Library Dorset Reading Partners Dudley Children's Book Group Dundee & Angus College Dyslexia Scotland

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East Norfolk Sixth Form College East Staffs Family Hub East Suffolk Council Education Authority (Education Library Service) Education North Tyneside Emma Bettridge Projects Emma Drag Emmie's Book EmpathyLab Erewash Museum Everton Library Trust Ltd Exceed Reading Stars C.I.C Exeter Phoenix

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Federation of Children's Book Groups Festival of Brilliant Fighting Words NI First Story Floris Books Flourishing Families Leeds Flux Rotherham Flying Start For us too Forestry England Formara Limted Four Greens Community Trust Fox Lane Books Friends of Carnforth Library Group Friends of Jesmond Library Friends of Script Haven Fringe by the Sea FUTURE FANTASY ARTS Future Youth Zone

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Gatehouse Books Limited GAVO Giant Olive Tree Book House Girlguiding Devon Girlguiding Swadlincote Give a Book Glasgow Life (Glasgow Libraries) Golden Egg Academy Greener Littleover Gressenhall Farm & Workhouse (Norfolk Museums Service) Grimm and Co Guildford Book Festival Guy Fox History Project Limited

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Hackney Council Hannah Welch (children's author) Happy Reading Children's Bookshop Hark Harrogate International Festivals Harrow Arts Centre Headstart Kernow (Cornwall Council) Heaton Wilson Books Henry Dancer Days Hewson Books Ltd HMP Guy's Marsh HMP Lancaster Farms HMP Lincoln HMP Styal HMP Woodhill Hub on the Green Huncote Community Library

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ILT Education IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society Ipswich Book Festival Ipswich Children's Book group

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Jacari Jigsaw

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Keyham Green Places (Community Regeneration Outreach Projects) Kids Invent Stuff King's Lynn Book Festival KwizEd Ltd

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Lakes & Dales Coop (Part of Scotmid group) Lakes International Comic Art Festival Lancaster City Council LCC Cultural Services Learning Ladders Tuition Ledley Hall Boys and Girls Club Trust Ltd. Leek Town Council and Staffs Moorlands District Council Letchworth Heritage Foundation Lexia UK Libraries Connected Libraries Connected: London Libraries Libraries Rising Libraries Unlimited Libraries Unlimited – Okehampton Library Libraro Libresoft Literacy Pirates Literacy Volunteers Literally Shepton Literary Escape Co Little Hibba Liverpool Learning Partnership Living Paintings London LGBTQ+ Community Centre Lord-Lieutenant of Shropshire LoveReading4Kids

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Magical Childhoods Early Years Consultancy Mahogony Opera Mango And Marmalade Stories Ltd Manorfield PTFA Maximize Education Merton Libraries Mim Therapy Mind in the City, Hackney & Waltham Forest
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Nancy Blackett Trust National Centre for Writing NCT New Writing North Newcastle City Council Newcastle Family Hub Newland Homes Ltd Nick Owen Publishing NIFCA Norfolk County Council Norfolk Museums Service North Edinburgh News North Lincolnshire Children's Literacy Trust North Taunton Partnership Novellic

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Oakham Book Swap OCA One Education Ltd Orbit – Community Hubs Team Orbit Housing Oriel Square Limited OUTSIDE OUTSIDE Creative People & Places Oxfam Books and Music

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Paper Tales Parenting Team – Cornwall Council Patoss Dyslexia Charity Pearson Pemberley Natural History Books PeoplePlus Peterborough Cultural Alliance Petrichor Wool Studio Philip Kavvadias (Author/Illustrator) Plymouth Albion RFC Plymouth Literary festival Portsmouth Guildhall Promote Your School Public Health South Tees Punchdrunk Enrichment

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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 Norfolk Read Easy North Somerset Read Easy Nottingham Read Easy Peterborough Read Easy Poole and Bournemouth Read Easy Shropshire Hills Read Easy South Worcestershire Read Easy Southampton & Isle of Wight Read Easy Southwark Read Easy Stockport Read Easy Telford and Shropshire East Read Easy UK Read Easy West Berkshire Read for Good Read, Play, Create Ltd Readers Together Reading 2 Smile Reading Fairy Global Reading Force Reading Recovery Europe ReadingWise Ready Generations Charity Redruth Town Council Ringmer Village Library River Valley Literary Society RWI

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Sally Beazley Dyslexia Specialist School Library Association School Walls Schoolreaders Seven Stories | The National Centre for Children's Books Sheels Educational Ltd Sheffield Hallam University Shelf Rockers LTD Shine Lincolnshire Shipston Bookfest Shoreham Wordfest Silent Book Club Stourbridge Softwood Books Sound AiSleep South Staffordshire College Speech & Language Link Spike's Sight Words Spitalfields City Farm St Andrews Bookshop St Columba's Church of Scotland St Vincent's Brixton Stack Magazines Staffordshire Libraries and Communities Stapleford Granary Arts Centre Step into Stories with Bewdley Festival Stockport Local Authority Story Spark Story Zoo Stuart Roden Suffolk Mind Surrey County Council Fostering Service Sutton Council Swindon Story Shed

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Tamworth Family Hub Teach First Teach Us Too Teach Your Monster Teachmate TeachMy TeamADL CIC Techmahindra The Abbey Theatre The Abbotsford Trust The Art Room The Bell Foundation The Book Bus The Book Fairies The Book Stop The Bright Agency The British Library The Brotherhood The Careers & Enterprise Company The Children's Book Project The Children’s Literacy Charity The Day News & Media Ltd The Dirigible Balloon The Flitwits Ltd The FORD Community Centre The Happy Confident Company The Hub @ Greenford Library The London Bookman 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 The Village Hub Therapy Dogs Nationwide Tickhill Community Library Treehouse Festival Tyneside and Northumberland Mind

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UKLA University of Hull Urban Hybrid Architecture UWE

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Voice 21 Voxblock

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Wallasey Village Library & Community Centre Warwick District Council Warwickshire Lieutenancy WEA Weeping Bank West Belfast Partnership Board West Dumbartonshire Council West Surrey Partnership Whole School SEND Wigtown Festival Company Wordsworth Grasmere World Kid Lit CIC WRD Magazine

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Yellowbird Education You Are The Star Books Young Writers

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