
Case study: Highfields School
16 October 2017 • Showcase
Highfields School in Derbyshire organised a 'book-themed bake off' competition to engage students who don't usually read.
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16 October 2017 • Showcase
Highfields School in Derbyshire organised a 'book-themed bake off' competition to engage students who don't usually read.
Read more13 February 2013 • News
On the day that Quick Reads 2013 launches, new research shows that a quarter of UK adults (over 12 million people) have only picked up a book to read for pleasure once or less in the past six months.
Read more31 January 2013 • News
Bus passengers in Southend, students at Highlands College in Jersey and cleaners and teaching staff at De Montfort University are just some of the people being recruited for this year's Six Book Challenge.
Read more22 October 2012 • Reading Ahead case studies
Dawn Williams is a cleaner at Alpha Hospital, Bury where she took part in the 2012 Six Book Challenge. She says The Six Book Challenge has widened her horizons.
Read more18 October 2012 • News
The Six Book Challenge is being used in a special project in ten young offender institutions (YOIs) thanks to Booker-winner Julian Barnes choosing The Reading Agency for the Clarissa Luard Award when he won the David Cohen Prize last year.
Read more11 October 2012 • Reading Ahead case studies
"The thing that meant the most to me about the Six Book Challenge was actually enjoying the content of the books that I read. I found the Challenge focussed and informative and I would recommend anyone to do it."
Read more10 October 2012 • Tips and training
Simon Wallace, Community & Diversity Manager at Southend Libraries, inspires us with news of what Southend Libraries have done to promote the Quick Reads initiative.
Read more06 September 2013 • News
The Quick Reads 2014 titles have been announced.
Read more05 October 2012 • News
We're very pleased to announce that in 2013, less confident readers in Wales can choose whether to take part in Welsh or English or a mixture of both. Thanks to support from the Welsh Government and Welsh Books Council, we're delighted to offer bilingual materials for the Six Book Challenge in Wales for the first time.
Read more10 September 2012 • Reading Ahead case studies
Jillian Leader, 49, left school aged 16 with almost no qualifications, she tells us how taking part in the Six Book Challenge has helped to turn her life around
Read more03 July 2013 • Practitioners Guides
Find out more about running Reading Ahead (the new name for the Six Book Challenge) at your organisation.
Read more25 July 2012 • Tips and training
With almost 100 prisons taking part in the 2012 Six Book Challenge it's great that people are always finding new ways to use the scheme.
Read more02 June 2013 • Reading Groups for Everyone
Reading Groups for Everyone celebrates all the good things that happen when people come together to talk about reading and books.
Read more16 July 2012 • News
Familes are doing the Summer Reading Challenge and Six Book Challenge together.
Read more22 March 2012 • News
Now that we've got news of early completers for this year's Six Book Challenge it's time to remind you about the prizes on offer.
Read more19 May 2016 • Media releases
The Society of Chief Librarians (SCL), The Reading Agency and ASCEL have signed a strategic three-year partnership to enhance the public library service in England.
Read more08 March 2013 • Our blog
The following is an excerpt from the speech Miranda McKearney made at the LGA annual culture, tourism and sport conference - Going for growth: boosting the economy through culture, tourism and sport on Thursday 8 March. A full version of the speech can also be downloaded.
Read more03 October 2012 • Media releases
Parents who want to encourage their children to read more will be relieved to hear that it needn't cost them a penny.
In a Reading Agency survey of 1,110 children aged 4-11 over a fifth (22%) selected visiting the library as the action most likely to make them want to read, compared to less than 2% saying that reading a book on an ipad or kindle was the thing most likely to make them want to read.
Read more14 September 2012 • Media releases
The Reading Agency is delighted that bestselling novelist and former SAS soldier Andy McNab will lead its 2013 Six Book Challenge to help get even more adults reading more.
Read more10 September 2012 • Our blog
This week we launch our 2013 Six Book Challenge, our annual initiative to help tackle the UK's continuing skills deficit by inspiring people across the UK to build their literacy skills and feel more confident about reading.
Read more09 April 2012 • Media releases
Colleges, libraries, prisons and workplaces invited to reach out to those less confident adult readers who are most likely to benefit from increasingly-popular Six Book Challenge.
Read moreSearch for reading groups in your area with this brilliant Reading Groups for Everyone tool, then join one!
Our Reading Ahead Find a Read tool is designed for you to filter the type of book you want, at the reading level you are comfortable with.
Use our Summer Reading Challenge Book Sorter to find brilliant books recommended by other children.