Reading is for everyone

For decades, Read for Good has been providing educators and professionals working with children with fun, rewarding, pragmatic, evidence-based, freely accessible tools, interventions and activities to encourage reading for pleasure.

Alongside our flagship programmes providing books to children in hospital and Readathon sponsored read, we have a range of other ways to help children develop a love of reading:

In-person Author Events programmes
the audience at one of our events

Author events offer fantastic inspiration to children and young people. We offer a whole host of online events to watch anytime. In 23/24 we ran a series of in-person events in Gloucestershire with a fabulous variety of authors. The impact was impressive. Read the full report here.

Library Kickstarter programme
inside a school library

We continued our work to help improve school libraries with a Library Kickstarter programme in Gloucestershire, providing books, CPD training, resources and support for schools to improve their library space. Read the full report here.

Brilliant Bookshop Experience
A group of teenage boys buying books from a bookseller

In 2024, with National Book Tokens and the Yellow Lighted Bookshop, we delivered the Brilliant Bookshop Experience. Schools were flooded with £10 Book Tokens, and a pop-up bookshop to spend them in. Pupils had a fantastic time chatting about what books they would choose and read.

Storyteller Training
One of our storytellers sharing a joke with a young patient in hospital

During lockdown, when our storytellers couldn’t go into hospitals, Read for Good developed a 30 minute, free, pragmatic training programme teaching the secrets of storytelling. Useful for anyone working with children (whether in hospital or not), the training will help you to create an easy rapport with children.

Hospital Education Service case study
A young girl holding a book

To extend our work in hospitals, we collaborated with a local Hospital Education Service, educating children who are not well enough to attend school. Find out how they used Track My Read and our Brilliant Box of Books programme to unite their pupil community in a fun, purposeful reading activity.

Stories in Schools case study
One of our storytellers talking to primary school children

In 2019, we ran an intensive reading intervention with schools, with the aim of transforming attitudes to reading among those children already defined by others or themselves, as ‘non-readers’.Find out more about the pilot and its results,independently evaluated by the National Literacy Trust.

Alternative Provision case study
an image from track my read

We partnered with an alternative provision school to help children and young people outside of mainstream education. Learn more about the ways that Track My Read, our paper resources, and new books brought the school community together.

Special School case study
a row of books

Working alongside a local special school meant changing our work to make it accessible and safe. This helped us to find new ways to differentiate reading for pleasure and make it accessible to all children. Read more here.

Hospital School case study
a young girl holding a book by Roald Dahl

We were thrilled when St George’s Hospital, Wandsworth got in touch to find out how we could help them support reading for pleasure in their setting. For children in hospital, books and stories become even more magical. Read more here.