🗣️Calling staff from local authorities, Family Hubs and community organisations – we’re sharing learnings from a host of successful community centred activities during an interactive webinar.

Register: literacytrust.org.uk/events/engagin…

Thrilled to be here at #PrimaryLitConf24 with National Literacy Trust and a room bursting with teachers passionate about changing the story for our children. Literacy changes everything.

Hello Publisher friends! National Literacy Trust are here again The London Book Fair, 11-13 March 2025 Come and say hello and find out how you can join in with #librariesforprimaries
Link below!
Look out for our Year 9 students visiting the fair today -the industry’s next generation! Publishers Association

Great to be talking all things #LibrariesForPrimaries The London Book Fair, 11-13 March 2025 Delighted to join as one of the two charities of the year for this year’s event. Publishers/schools, register expressions of interest for phase 2 of our campaign here: librariesforprimaries.org.uk/join-the-campa… National Literacy Trust

We work in communities where people need us the most.

Our Swindon panel at #TTYB24 showcased partnership working with insights from a Literacy Champion, a speech and language therapist, and WHSmith who have funded projects in the town.

The consensus? We need more services!

Day 1 of being The London Book Fair, 11-13 March 2025’s charity partner. 😍

Jonathan Douglas joined a panel about literacy's role in driving social mobility. #LibrariesForPrimaries is tackling a postcode lottery of inequitable library provision impacting 750,000 children.

➡️ librariesforprimaries.org.uk

One for the poets and poetry-lovers, we have an extraordinarily rare opportunity to own a limited (no. 5 of a print run of 143) edition of Ted Hughes’ poems, Moortown Elegies, plus a signed and handwritten, previously unpublished poem.

Check it out: nlt-gala.org.uk/view_lot/?id=1…

WIN ✨️📚️

We’ve got 3 places to National Literacy Trust’s Primary Conference to give away! Taking place at Essex County Hall on 21 March, it's ideal for teachers, leaders & librarians working in primary schools to promote literacy & reading for pleasure.

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The #IntoFilmAwards returns in 2024, and promise to once again be a fantastic celebration of young talented filmmakers aged 5-19 from across the UK, as well those people who facilitate and support their filmmaking journey🏆🎬

Begin your entry now!👉 intofilm.org/awards

We're celebrating Valentine's Day with a prompt 💘

Can you evoke a story of unrequited love in a single sentence?

Have a go and share it here! We can't wait to read your micro love stories! #AmWriting #WritingCommunity

Some personal news… after 8 incredible years at National Literacy Trust I’ll be taking up the role of CEO of Into Film at the end of April. So proud of everything we have done National Literacy Trust and excited for a new chapter with the brilliant Into Film

So much to be optimistic about in 2024. Great article in Books for Keeps below. We WILL get more books into schools and more primary school libraries! National Literacy Trust
librariesforprimaries.org.uk

A perfect illustration for #BlueMonday 💙.

We're partnering with Penguin Books UK and @charliemakesy to create resources for #ChildrensMentalHealthWeek !

Landing on our website later this week and great for pupils aged 5 - 11.

We are very sorry to learn of the death of K.M.Peyton who has died aged 94. An obituary will follow but this piece by Meg Rosoff, written 2011, is a wonderful tribute.
booksforkeeps.co.uk/article/k-m-pe…

‘Schools are terrific [Covid] reservoirs. And in the cold winter months, they were going to be a big vector of transmission and it wasn’t a runner,' Boris Johnson told Covid inquiry of the decision to close schools in January 2021
tes.com/magazine/news/…
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Poet and author Benjamin Zephaniah has died aged 65 and family say he leaves a 'joyful and fantastic legacy'
bbc.in/4acosGE

Wonderful to spend today at The Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood’s symposium. Inspiring speeches and a powerful sense of momentum from a cross sectoral alliance. Great to see how National Literacy Trust’s Early Words Matter campaign is part of a wider coalition dedicated to strengthening early childhood.

And listen out for @literacytrust research and our Chair of Trustees, Joanna Prior!

A shocking 1 in 7 state UK primary schools don’t have a library. We’re calling on the government to acknowledge how important school libraries are and match-fund library provision.

Support #LibrariesForPrimaries and read the report: librariesforprimaries.org.uk

Next Monday is #WorldKindnessDay Celebrate choosing kindness with our assemblies and resources for pupils aged 5-11 created in partnership with Penguin Books UK and charlie mackesy💙.

Find out more: literacytrust.org.uk/resources/worl…