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…
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Libraries to loan sports equipment to help families become ‘active’ readers this summer
In partnership with the Summer Reading Challenge, the Youth Sport Trust is excited to introduce equipment loan scheme pilots in one focused library within five target locations.
The Reading Agency Teams up with Nike and Rebel Girls for the Summer Reading Challenge
We’re teaming up with Nike and Rebel Girls this summer, to gift 500,000 books to children across the UK.
The Reading Agency and Blue Peter are searching for page-turners
The Reading Agency and Blue Peter are teaming up to ask publishers to submit great books for a new joint children’s reading initiative. The scheme aims to find titles which children won’t want to put down and introduce young readers to new writing that they may not have previously discovered.
The Big Eurovision Read – The People’s Choice
This May, The Reading Agency, working in partnership with BBC Arts, were part of EuroFestival, joining in the Eurovision celebrations in Liverpool. In addition to producing a 12 title booklist celebrating the power of reading and music, we also went out to the public for their wonderful recommendations.
The Booker Prizes reveals new data on who is reading translated fiction
The Booker Prize Foundation, working from newly compiled data from Neilsen, has found that readers of translated fiction in the UK are significantly younger than fiction readers generally. Find out more.
Award-winning storyteller Danyah Miller announces Gala Performance of Michael Morpurgo’s I Believe in Unicorns and West End summer season
Award-winning storyteller Danyah Miller today announces a unique Gala Performance of her acclaimed production of _I Believe in Unicorns_, based on the story by the best-selling children’s author Michael Morpurgo, to celebrate The Reading Agency’s 21st birthday.
The Big Eurovision Read Reading Den Opens in Liverpool
Find out more about the Big Eurovision Read Reading Den, our programme of events and workshops, and the brilliant booklist celebrating the power of reading and music.
Get Islington Reading empowers local students to pursue reading activism this Earth Day
To celebrate Earth Day last week, best-selling author Sita Brahmachari, music artist and campaigner Love Ssega, writer Anouchka Grose and All Change Arts rallied Islington schools to pursue reading activism and help save the planet, as part of our Get Islington Reading Earth Day panel with The Reading Agency and Islington Libraries.
Rosie Jones, Radzi Chinyanganya, Beth Tweddle MBE, Dr Alex George, Ellie Robinson MBE and Sam Squiers are amongst the stellar line up of Summer Reading Challenge Champions for 2023!
Books by Julia Donaldson, Joe Wicks and Viv French, Oti Mabuse, Bear Grylls, Phil Earle, Clare Balding and Joseph Coelho selected for the ‘Ready, Set, Read!’ Summer Reading Challenge book collection focused on games, sport and play. The Reading Agency…
Women’s Prize for Fiction Announces 2023 Shortlist
The Women’s Prize for Fiction – the greatest international celebration of women’s creativity – announces the 2023 shortlist.
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