literacy

Schoolreaders charity celebrates 10th anniversary and calls for new volunteers

As Schoolreaders celebrates its 10th anniversary, the charity is looking to increase its number of volunteers who are passionate about helping children discover their love for books. Schoolreaders is a national...

BookTastic’s Family Festival aims to ignite life-long passion for reading

BookTastic, Bedford's children's book festival, has announced the date of its autumn Family Festival which will take place at Bedford Academy. The family event, designed to inspire even the most reluctant readers...

Join in the Race for Reading ‘Around the World’ challenge to support childhood literacy

A Bedford-based charity supporting children with their literacy is launching its ‘Race For Reading’ campaign to raise funds to support reading in primary schools...

Best-selling novelist Joanna Trollope supports Bedford-based literacy charity, Schoolreaders

Schoolreaders, the Bedford-based charity that aims to improve childhood literacy, is delighted to announce that Joanna Trollope, one of the country’s...

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