READ Gloucestershire! 2025
READ Gloucestershire! is Read for Good’s Gloucestershire-wide campaign, bringing together local and national partners to inspire, empower and enable children and young people across Gloucestershire to read for pleasure, providing accessible support throughout the school year.
Following the 1 Million Minute challenge, author events and our transformative library makeovers in 2023, in 2024 we wanted to continue to give schools really tangible support to help them engage pupils in reading for pleasure. We arranged author visits, refreshed libraries, created pop-up book shops and flooded schools with Book Tokens to create a real buzz about reading.
For more information on the type of work we’ve been delivering in Gloucestershire and beyond, click here.
We will continue our focused work in Gloucestershire, supporting the county’s schools and young people to love reading. If you are interested in working with us, please email tash@readforgood.org.
In the meantime, order your free Readathon kit. As well as getting pupils reading regularly, there are some great prizes to be won.
Check out our vast range of free resources, tools and activities to support a reading for pleasure culture in your school:
- Films to watch on demand
- Resources for your library
- Inspiring ideas to have fun with reading
Make sure you receive our emails for resources, author events and more!
Resources to download and share across your entire school
We’re proud to work alongside some other fantastic Gloucestershire-based organisations:
Read With Me
Gloucestershire Libraries
Read With Me
Through its fantastic, free volunteer service, Read With Me provides one-to-one support in primary schools to help every child learn to read well before they go to secondary school. Read With Me works as an extension of its partner schools: volunteers can come into your school at a time to suit you, working with your reading scheme and any initiatives. They hear each child read for 10-15 minutes, twice a week. Read With Me can also provide additional books for reading reward schemes, and can top up class book collections. In some schools, Read With Me runs Rhyme With Me sessions for pre-schoolers, as well as after school book clubs. If you’d like Read With Me to support your school get in touch with Founder, Linda Cohen, linda@readwithme.org.uk or read more here.
Cheltenham Festivals, Reading Teachers = Reading Pupils
Reading Teachers = Reading Pupils is a national network of teachers’ reading groups who read high-quality and diverse children’s literature in order to ignite the spark of reading for pleasure in teachers and, through them, their pupils. Teachers sign up for an academic year and attend a launch, five book groups and a Sharing Day between Oct — June. Teachers receive two free copies of the RTRP books; one for them and one for their school. The books are chosen by an expert panel and consist of three contemporary texts (published in the last two years), one anytime text and one picture book or graphic novel. Find your nearest group and more information here, or email education@cheltenhamfestivals.com.
If you are already part of RTRP, and/or if your students benefit from Read With Me’s volunteers, get in touch with us to see how Read for Good’s READ Gloucestershire! activities can complement this support, to nurture a whole-school culture which celebrates reading for pleasure.
*If you already receive our READ Gloucestershire! emails, you don’t need to sign up again.
With many thanks to Jennifer Hayward and Richard Waite and The Notgrove Trust, for supporting READ Gloucestershire.
