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Campaigns


  • Book 'Em Foundation: their goal is to to highlight the connection between illiteracy / poor reading skills and crime rates.
  • Children's Book Week  (UK), 3-9 October 2011: a celebration of reading for pleasure for children of primary school age.
  • Children's Book Week (USA), 2-8 May 2011
  • Discover - Children's Story Centre - Sep 2010 to Jan 2011
    Dyslexia Action 'Its ME!' 2010 Poetry Competition
  • Edinburgh International Book Festival - 13-29 August 2011
  • Every Child A Reader
  • Everybody Writes Day, 21 October 2010
  • Galaxy Book Club - '1 Million Books To Be Won'
  • Galaxy National Book Awards 2010 - Channel 4 (UK)
  • Get Caught Reading - US campaign to remind people of all ages how much fun it is to read.
  • Get London Reading - Evening Standard Campaign
  • Give Autism A Chance Campaign 2012
  • Global Literacy Campaign - Read Every Day, Lead a Better Life (Scholastic)
  • Hay Festival - Winter Weekend, 3-5 December 2010 (UK)
  • 'Hello' National Year of Communication 2011 
  • International Children's Book Day, 2 April 2011
  • International Literacy Day, 8 September 2011
  • Japanese National Year of Reading 2010
  • Just Read Campaign (UK)
  • Ladybird Reading Bus Tour (UK) during the month of September. This bus will be bringing books and reading fun to kids
  • Literacy Texas Annual Conference, 8-9 August 2011
  • Lost For Words - RNIB (Royal National Institute for the Blind)
  • Maine Family Literacy Initiative -11 March 2011
  • Mayor's Fund for London: The Mayor’s Fund for London is a new charity focusing on improving the life chances and aspirations of disadvantaged children, young people and their families in London.
  • Nelson Mandela Institute launches Mandela Day in Education
  • National ADHD Awareness Day - 19 September 2010
  • National Adult Literacy Agency (NALA): Campaign for a refreshed adult literacy strategy
  • National Letter Writing Day, 21 May 2011 (UK)
  • National Novel Writing Month (November 2010)
  • National Reading Campaign (Canada)
  • National Storytelling Week 2011 , 29 January to 5 February
  • Out Of Trouble -  campaigning to reduce the numbers of children and young people in UK prisons.
  • Project X turns boys into real readers: Oxford University Press' campaign to get boys reading and writing
  • Puffin Birthday Events (Puffin Books)
  • Read Across America - a National Education Association (NEA) project
  • Read With Kids Challenge 2010
  • Roald Dahl Day - 13 September
  • Roald Dahl Funny Prize 2010
  • Shout Out For A Sure Start - these centres provide families with young children with services, support and information
  • South Africa Library Week Theme: Reading Changes Lives, 22-27 March 2010
  • Space Hop, Summer 2010 Reading Challenge - this is the UK's biggest national initiative to encourage children between 4-11 years to read 6 books or more during the summer holidays.
  • StarLit 2010 - the second annual festival of children's literature from 4-8 October 2010, in London's Hoxton Square - celebrating the very best of writing for 5-15 year olds.
  • TalkaboutAutism - new campaign by autism charity TreeHouse, supported by TalkTalk
  • Tell Me A Story -    UK National Literacy Trust
  • The Big Picture is a UK campaign which ran largely in 2008 to promote picture books.
  • The Book Show - Sky Arts
  • The Teaching Awards
  • UNESCO 'Books For Children in Haiti'
  • UNESCO Education For All by 2015
  • United Nations Foundation Girl Up Campaign - a campaign for girls by girls
  • UNESCO Literacy Initiative for Empowerment (LIFE)
  • United Nations Literacy Decade (2003-2012)
  • Vote For Literacy - UK National Literacy Trust
  • Walk for Literacy is a Galvanizing and Organizing Youth Activism  (G.O.Y.A) and The Global Literacy Project Inc, initiative, which continues to focus on the goal of assisting communities with literacy both locally and globally.
  • Words for Life (launched by the National Literacy Trust)
  • World Autism Awareness Day, 2nd April 2011
  • World Book Day 2012
  • World Book Day 2011, 3 March 2011
  • World Book Capital 2011
  • World Book Night,  5 March 2011
  • World Poetry Day,  21 March 2011
  • World Storytelling Day, 20 March 2011
  • World Teachers' Day, 5 October 2011
  • National Educational Association (NEA): National Teachers' Day, 3 May, 2011

    Numeracy Campaigns
  • Every Child Counts

    If you know about other relevant campaigns which are not listed here, we would like to hear about these!
    Please send us the URL with a brief description of the campaign to info@readingandspellingchannel.com or simply go to our Contact Us page.



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