The State of the Nation’s Adult Reading: 2024 Report
Half of all adults in the UK don’t read regularly, and 1 in 6 – that’s 8.5 million – struggles…
News and Stories
Yoto Carnegie Greenaway Awards Launches Live Shortlist Event Series with The Reading Agency
The UK’s longest running and best-loved book awards for children and young people is hosting #YotoCarnegieLIVE and #YotoGreenawayLIVE, two virtual shortlist events for young readers. Held this May in partnership with The Reading Agency, the free, interactive events are for…
A quarter of UK adults started reading more during lockdowns and have continued to, finds new survey to mark World Book Night 2022
25.56% of people say they started reading more during the lockdowns and have kept this up A third of respondents (33.02%) say more time to themselves would enable them to read more 38.34% of respondents say reading helps them…
HarperCollins Children’s Books In Association With The Reading Agency Gift 5000 Copies Of Book Commemorating The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee To Public Libraries Across The UK And Northern Ireland
HarperCollins Children’s Books and The Reading Agency, the national charity that works with libraries to promote the power of reading to adults and children, are delighted to announce that they have joined together to give 5000 free copies of Michael…
The Big Jubilee Read booklist announced!
The Big Jubilee Read campaign will use the proven power of reading to unite the public around the shared stories that define our social and cultural heritage.
Reading Partners – working with publishers, prizes and partners
At The Reading Agency, our partnership with publishers has been at the heart of our mission to tackle life’s big challenges through the proven power of reading since the charity was formed in 2002.
The Stories That Shape Us – World Book Night Event
This year World Book Night returns to The British Library to celebrate a night of reading. The event, hosted by Bobby Seagull, invites guests to watch a live discussion in person or online.
Dr Alex George, Ayisha Malik, Dreda Say Mitchell and Lemn Sissay to join host Bobby Seagull for hybrid World Book Night celebration on 23 April
84,000 books will be gifted to a range of organisations across the UK and Ireland including care homes, foodbanks, homeless hostels, hospitals and refugee charities as part of the World Book Night 2022 celebrations. Now in its 11th year, World…
The Reading Agency partners with Science Museum Group for innovation themed Summer Reading Challenge
The Reading Agency has today announced that the theme for this year’s annual Summer Reading Challenge is ‘Gadgeteers’. The Reading Agency is partnering with Science Museum Group to inspire children across the country to feed their imagination over the summer…
Women’s Prize for Fiction Announces 2022 Longlist
The Women’s Prize for Fiction, the greatest international celebration of women’s creativity, today announces the 2022 longlist.
Libraries are put on the map as part of StoryTrails ‘Summer of Stories’ campaign
Simon Savidge will join the StoryTrails project as the Library Liaison Manager for The Reading Agency and will launch ‘Summer of Stories,’ a national library campaign on the 1st May.
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