Leicester Readathon® 2025
Calling all Leicester City and Leicestershire schools: Join the Leicester Readathon® 2025
Read for Good are working in partnership with Whatever it Takes to inspire readers in Leicester City and Leicestershire with a wonderful week of reading and raising!
At Read for Good, we believe that children who read for fun in their spare time are more likely to lead happy, fulfilled lives. We deliver programmes designed to support parents and professionals working with children and young people to help enable, empower and inspire a life-changing love of reading.
Donations and Readathon sponsorship support our hospital programme which provides a regular supply of brand new books and professional storyteller visits to brighten up the days of children in all of the UK’s main children’s hospitals.
Reasons to get involved:
- A great way to create a buzz around reading at the start of a new academic year
- Free resources and author events
- Coincides with National Poetry Day on 3 October 2025
- Log reading with our online reading tracker Track My Read®
- Fundraising to get books and stories for children in hospitals
Choose from three levels of participation:
Option 1 Log reading minutes with Track My Read®
Option 2 Log reading minutes with Track My Read® and a little fundraising (e.g. £1 to take part, collection buckets)
Option 3 Log reading minutes with Track My Read® and run a Readathon® sponsored read
Click below to join the Leicester Readathon® 2025 and select your option choice:
Track My Read® is our free online reading tracker designed to help you engage and motivate pupils in reading for pleasure. It’s really easy to set up and enables pupils to tell you what they’re choosing to read, and for how long. Find out more here.
Readathon® is our flagship sponsored read, designed to be really easy to run, with everything you need in our fabulous bright orange kits and supported by a host of online resources. Pupils choose to read whatever they love and ask family and friends to sponsor them. The money raised supports our hospital programme, providing a regular supply of brand-new books and professional storyteller visits to children in hospitals across the UK, including Leicester Children’s Hospital, Queen’s Medical Centre (Nottingham) and Birmingham Children’s Hospital. Plus, schools also receive 20% of whatever they raise back in the form of Scholastic Book Clubs vouchers to buy more books for their own classrooms and school library. Find out more here.
In partnership with Whatever It Takes
