£250.00
Our Children’s Book Project pack contains our sustainably made books ‘Away’ and ‘Oceans Away’ for distribution to disadvantaged children.
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Our Children’s Book Project book pack contains a pack of our sustainably made children’s books ‘Away’ and ‘Oceans Away’ to give to The Children’s Book Project for distribution around the country to disadvantaged children.
The Children’s Book Project aims to tackle book poverty and create a fairer society where every child is able to be the proud owner of books they choose for themselves and are introduced to the transforming power of reading. Their object is to advance education of children up to age 14 by supplying books to those that would not otherwise be able to afford them, and by creating sustainable reading communities amongst targeted groups through the provision of regular inclusive book gifting events. They also aim to advance public education about environmental matters related to re-use & recycling of pre-loved children’s books.
Their mission has an ever more urgent social imperative with research from the National Literacy Trust published in October 2024 revealing that only 34% of children and young people are reading for pleasure. Around one million children in the UK do not own a single book of their own and at the same time, vast numbers of perfectly good books are pulped or end up in landfill each year. They address both problems at once, creating a route that stops books becoming waste and redirecting them straight into the hands of children who will treasure them.]
They engage with publishers to view every surplus title as a gift waiting for a reader, and help communities host book gifting events that spark a lifelong love of reading.
At the start of the current academic year they launched One Million Stories, their boldest campaign yet. It will give more than 125,000 children across 1,000 schools and community groups the chance to choose, and take home, pre-loved and surplus books – a milestone made possible entirely through the innovation, generosity, and belief of our partners, volunteers, team leaders and trustees. They hope to inspire a lifelong love of reading through these activities.
