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18 December 2012 • News
We are delighted to be partners with Coventry University on a research project that involves our Chatterbooks children's reading groups, funded by EEF -The Education Endowment Fund.
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30 August 2012 • Research
The 2011 Summer Reading Challenge reached a record breaking 780,000 children aged 4 to 12. Young people aged 11 and over support the children doing the Summer Reading Challenge.
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29 July 2012 • Practitioners Guides
These resources are available to library staff who are running the Summer Reading Challenge.
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18 October 2012 • Impact • Research
New research shows that reading for pleasure has a significant impact on the well-being, quality of life, social integration and learning opportunities of blind and partially sighted people.
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30 August 2012 • Research
Research found that public libraries make a significant contribution to health and well-being in communities, particularly through reading groups and the other creative activities they offer.
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03 July 2013 • Practitioners Guides
Find out more about running Reading Ahead (the new name for the Six Book Challenge) at your organisation.
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16 October 2013 • Our blog
On 14 October 2013 Neil Gaiman gave our second annual lecture at the Barbican Centre, London. This is a full transcript of the lecture.
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14 October 2013 • Media releases
"There is no such thing as the wrong thing to be reading and no bad fiction for kids." - Neil Gaiman at our second annual lecture.
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06 November 2012 • Our blog
At The Reading Agency we're very glad to see this balanced report published at such an important time for libraries and their users. I gave oral evidence as a witness in the process, and agree wholeheartedly with its identification of the disparity around the country in how cuts to library budgets are being handled.
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19 October 2012 • Our blog
When I was little, my school had a visit from a blind person who showed us how to use Braille. Already a keen reader, I was both fascinated and appalled at the same time, and can remember going on and on to my poor mum about what it would be like if you couldn't use your eyes to read.
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30 August 2012 • Our blog
The following is an extract from a speech given by Miranda McKearney, our CEO, at The Festival of Politics debate at the Scottish Parliament on 18 August 2012.
Read more07 December 2015 • Library facts
Libraries offer an unrivalled national and local network of community sites and outreach facilities. Anyone living in the UK is legally entitled to borrow books free from their local public library.
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Our ambassadors support and advocate for our work with children, young people and adults with low level literacy.
In our drive to open up equal chances for people to become readers, we work with a huge range of partners from the public, private and voluntary sectors.
