Pledge partners

Supporting reading together

Our Pledge Partners represent a growing network of organisations committed to supporting the National Year of Reading. Each pledge helps make reading more accessible and loved across the UK.

  • 650

    Pledge Partners

  • 26.5 million

    Anticipated reach

  • 29,220

    Pledged volunteers

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A growing network of
Pledge Partners

We are thrilled to showcase the huge numbers of organisations that have pledged their support towards the National Year of Reading. If your organisation would like to pledge and join this growing list, please complete our pledge form.

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Abbirose Adey ABC Book Club Ablaze Above and Beyond Careers ltd Accent Housing Limited Accuracy Matters Limited Achieve3000/McGraw Hill Education Action Foundation ACVO Adam C Gratton Afrori Books Agatha Christie Festival Age UK North Worcestershire AJC Tutoring Alcester Town Council Ambition Lawrence Weston Anchor Angela Marie James (author) Anywhere Book Club Appledore Book Festival ARCh Assisted Reading for Children Oxfordshire Artisan Creative art & talking Arvon Assisting Berkshire Children to Read Attachment Research Community Auris Tech Limited / Fonetti Austin Macauley Publishers Aventido A Write Highland Hoolie

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Baby Bank Network Back on Track Back to Ours Arts Limited BACP Rochdale Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art Bantu Baby Barnardo's Barnes Literary Society Barnsley College Basically Cheer CIC Bay Tales Bears House Nursery Beaux Books Bedworth GET Free Bookshop Belfast Book Club Belfast Learning City Better Read Book Fest Better Together Community Support Group for Stoke-on-Trent and Newcastle-under-Lyme Biddulph Town Council Big Heart Book Club Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Boldwood Books Bookbanks bookcareers.com Book Club Friends Book Clubs in Schools Book Jotter Books for Keeps BooksForTopics Bookshop.org Books on the Hill BookTastic Booktime by the Hindawi Foundation Bournville Village Trust Bradford District Care Foundation Trust Bradford LA Branova Labs Limited Brevity – The Isle of Wight's Literary Handbill Bright Light Education Bright Spark Resources British Dyslexia Association British Educational Research Association (BERA) Bruford Tutors Bude Literary Festival Burnley Together Burnley Words Festival Bury St Edmunds Literature Festival Bus Different Business in the Community NI Busy Bees

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CALFEVENTS CIC Calibre Audio Calne Wordfest Cambridge Literary Festival Camden Council Carleton Book Club Carlisle Foodbank Catch Up Centre for Army Leadership, British Army Centre for Literacy in Primary Education (CLPE) CENTREPEACE CFINE Chapter One Charco Press Charities Aid Foundation Charlottechaoticbooksxo Chartered College of Teaching Cheshire College South and West Chestnut Books Children Reading for Life Children's Book Project Children's Books Belfast Children's Books Ireland Chiltern Voice FM Chiswick Book Festival Christ Church Literature Society CILIP Citizens Advice North Staffordshire Citizens UK / PACT City of Edinburgh Council / HMP Edinburgh City Year UK Classics for All Classics for All (Southwest Network) Clyde FC Community Foundation Community Gateway Association Community Learning Partnerships Community Managed Libraries National Peer Network Conor Busuttil Illustration Coseley Family Hub Coventry Cathedral Coventry University CovLitFest Craigmillar Literacy Trust Cranbrook Literature Festival Creative Lives Creative Regeneration Crescent Arts Centre Croydon Supplementary Education Project Cuckfield Bookfest Culture Quests Publishing Curious Arts Cute Cubs

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DanceWest Davies DEAD GOOD CIC Debutots Deeplish Community centre Association Delight Derby Book Festival Derby College Dinnington St John's Town Council Ditchling Bookshop Dollywood Foundation UK Dolphin Computer Access Doorstep Library Doorways Derby Dorman Museum Dorset Reading Partners Dry Water Arts Dudley Children's Book Group Dundee & Angus College Durham Cricket Foundation Dylan Miller – Writer Dyslexia Scotland

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Easingwold community care association East Norfolk Sixth Form College East Point Pavilion Eastside Learning East Staffs Family Hub East Suffolk Council Eclipse Books Eco Edd Edinburgh International Book Festival Education Authority (Education Library Service) Education North Tyneside Eduthing Eldon Square Emilie Lauren Jones – Poet Emma Bettridge Projects Emma Drag Emmie's Book EmpathyLab Equal Arts Erewash Museum Essex Child and Family Wellbeing Service Essex Library Service Ethos Family Support Hub Everton Library Trust Ltd Exceed Reading Stars C.I.C Exeter Phoenix

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Family Action Fareham College Farshore HarperCollins Federation of Children's Book Groups Festival of Brilliant Fighting Words Northern Ireland finding good First Story Flibbertigibbet Theatre Floris Books Flourishing Families Leeds Flux Rotherham Flying Start Fodstock Forestry England Formara Limted For us too Four Greens Community Trust Fox Lane Books Friends of Carnforth Library Group Friends of Jesmond Library Friends of Linthorpe Community Group Friends of Script Haven Fringe by the Sea FSN Charity Fun Kids Fun Palaces FUTURE FANTASY ARTS Future Youth Zone

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Gatehouse Books Limited GAVO Giant Olive Tree Book House Girlguiding Devon Girlguiding Swadlincote Give a Book Gladstone Terrace Glasgow Life (Glasgow Libraries) Golden Egg Academy Greener Littleover Gressenhall Farm & Workhouse (Norfolk Museums Service) Grimm and Co Guildford Book Festival Guy Fox History Project Limited

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Hackney Council Hackney Libraries Hannah Welch (children's author) Happy Reading Children's Bookshop Harewood House Trust Hark Harris Federation Harrogate International Festivals Harrow Arts Centre Hartlepool Sport Haven Books Group (Badger Learning & Pandora Books) Headstart Kernow (Cornwall Council) Heaton Wilson Books Henry Boot Henry Dancer Days Her-Place Charitable Trust Hewson Books Ltd High Sheriff of Cheshire 2026/27 Historic Royal Palaces (Tower of London) HMP Guy's Marsh HMP Lancaster Farms HMP Lincoln HMP Lincoln HMP Styal HMP Woodhill Howzat Cricket Ltd HTC Hub on the Green Huncote Community Library

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ILT Education Ingram Content Group IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society Ipswich Book Festival Ipswich Children's Book group IW Observer Ltd

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Jacari Jericho Writers Jigsaw

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Kennedy Publishing Kent Libraries Registration and Archives Keyham Green Places (Community Regeneration Outreach Projects) Kids Invent Stuff Kids’ Storyworld King's Lynn Book Festival Kirklees & Calderdale Read Easy KwizEd Ltd

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Lakes & Dales Coop (Part of Scotmid group) Lakes International Comic Art Festival Lancaster City Council LAStheatre LB Barking Dagenham LCC Cultural Services Learning Ladders Tuition Ledley Hall Boys and Girls Club Trust Ltd. Leeds Federated Housing Association Leek Town Council and Staffs Moorlands District Council Letchworth Heritage Foundation LEVEL Centre Lexia UK Lexo Group Ltd Libraries Connected Libraries Connected: London Libraries Libraries NI Libraries Rising Libraries Unlimited Libraries Unlimited – Okehampton Library Libraro Libresoft Lifelong Learning Centre, The University of Leeds Liggy Webb Listening Books Literacy Counts Literacy counts Literacy Pirates Literacy Volunteers Literally Shepton Literary Escape Co Literature Alliance Scotland Literature Works LIT Stars CIC Little Hibba Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised Liverpool Learning Partnership Living Paintings LNER (London North Eastern Railway) London LGBTQ+ Community Centre London Museum Docklands Lord-Lieutenant of Shropshire LoveReading4Kids LUMI WORLD LTD

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Magical Childhoods Early Years Consultancy Mahogony Opera Make Some Noise Manchester Literature Festival Mango And Marmalade Stories Ltd Manorfield PTFA Marlborough LitFest Maximize Education MBC – Libraries Merton Libraries Middlesbrough Central Library Middlesbrough council Middlesbrough Libraries Middlesbrough Town Hall Midlothian Council Mighty Readers Ebook Club Mighty Readers Ebook Club Mim Therapy Mind in the City, Hackney & Waltham Forest
 Mini Phonics UK Monkton Nature Reserve Monkton Nature Reserve Motion Storybooks Motiv8 Mrs Wordsmith MR Tutor M6 Theatre Company MUDCHUTE ASSOCIATION MyBB Education CIC

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Nancy Blackett Trust National Centre for Writing NCT Newcastle City Council Newcastle Family Hub Newland Homes Ltd New Writing North Nick Mathison MLA (Alliance) Nick Owen Publishing Nick Pavone Creations NIFCA NLT Norfolk County Council Norfolk Museums Service North Edinburgh News North Lincolnshire Children's Literacy Trust North Lincolnshire Mind North Taunton Partnership Northumberland Inshore Fisheries and Conservation Authority (NIFCA) North Yorkshire Council Novellic Nuneaton Town Football Club

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Oakham Book Swap OCA One Education Ltd Orbit – Community Hubs Team Orbit Housing Oriel Square Limited Ouseburn Farm Charity Limited OUT OF MANY PEOPLE CIC OUTSIDE OUTSIDE Creative People & Places OverDrive Global Limited Oxfam Books and Music

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Pageticker Pallion Action Group Paper Tales Parenting Team – Cornwall Council Parker Trust Patient Information Forum (PIF) Patoss Dyslexia Charity Pearson Pemberley Natural History Books PeoplePlus Peterborough Cultural Alliance Peters Petrichor Wool Studio Philip Astley Centre Philip Kavvadias (Author/Illustrator) Philippaslittlebookshop Plymouth Albion RFC Plymouth Literary festival Portsmouth Guildhall Preston Crime Fiction Festival Promote Your School Promoting Children in Plymouth Promoting Our Heritage Public Health South Tees Punchdrunk Enrichment

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Queen's University Belfast

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Rath Literary Festival Reaching People Read Easy Basingstoke Read Easy Bath Read Easy Birmingham SE and Solihull Read Easy Birmingham South West Read Easy Bolton and District Read Easy Bridport Read Easy Cambridge Read Easy Central Sussex Read Easy Cheltenham and Gloucester Read Easy Chilterns Read Easy Croydon Read Easy Derby & District Read Easy Devon hub Read Easy Ealing Read Easy Hackney Read Easy Haringey Read Easy Lambeth Read Easy Leeds Read Easy Medway Read Easy Merseyside Read Easy Mid Warwickshire Read Easy Newcastle and North Tyneside Read Easy Norfolk Read Easy North and West Wiltshire Read Easy North Somerset Read Easy Nottingham Read Easy Peterborough Read Easy Poole and Bournemouth Read Easy Sheffield Read Easy Shropshire Hills Read Easy Southampton & Isle of Wight Read Easy Southwark Read Easy South Worcestershire Read Easy Stockport Read Easy Telford and Shropshire East Read Easy UK Read Easy West Berkshire Read Easy Wolverhampton Readers Together Read for Good Reading Fairy Global Reading Force Reading Recovery Europe Reading 2 Smile ReadingWise Read, Play, Create Ltd Read Revive Ready Generations Charity Redruth Town Council Rias Rascals Richmondshire Museum Ringmer Village Library River Valley Literary Society Rochdale Borough Council Rochdale Hornets Foundation Rochdale LA Rochdale SACRE Romsey Womens Institute Rosscon Training Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) RWI Rye Oak & Ann Bernadt SEND Best Start Family Hubs

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Saints Sally Beazley Dyslexia Specialist Scanning Pens School Library Association Schoolreaders School Walls Scorpius Books See It Be It @ Sheffield City Council Seven Stories | The National Centre for Children's Books Shadow Road Productions – The Fireside Folktales Fringe Shannon Trust Sheels Educational Ltd Sheffield Hallam University Sheffield Home of Football Shelf Rockers LTD Shine Lincolnshire Shipston Bookfest Shoreham Wordfest Shrewsbury BID Silent Book Club Stourbridge Silsden Community Library Slightly Foxed Ltd Softwood Books Somerset Film Sound AiSleep South Staffordshire College Speech & Language Link Spike's Sight Words Spitalfields City Farm Spread a Smile Stack Magazines Staffordshire Libraries and Communities St Andrews Bookshop Stanley Arts Stapleford Granary Arts Centre St Columba's Church of Scotland Step into Stories with Bewdley Festival Stockport Local Authority Story Spark Story Zoo Strange Futures CIC Stratford-upon-Avon Foodbank Stuart Roden St Vincent's Brixton Suffolk Mind Surrey County Council Fostering Service Surveyors to Education Sutton Council Swindon Story Shed

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Tameside Libraries Tamil Cultural Society Middlesbrough Tamworth Family Hub Teacher's Pet Classroom Resources Teach First Teachmate TeachMy Teach Us Too Teach Your Monster TeamADL CIC Techmahindra The Abbey Theatre The Abbotsford Trust The Art Room The Bell Foundation The Bikeability Trust The Book Bus The Book Fairies The Book Stop The Bright Agency The British Library The Brotherhood The Brunel Centre The Buddyhood Publishing Ltd The Careers & Enterprise Company The Children's Book Project The Children’s Literacy Charity The Cinema Museum The Crescent Arts Centre + Belfast Book Festival The Day News & Media Ltd The Dirigible Balloon The Flitwits Ltd The FORD Community Centre The Glasshouse International Centre for Music The Happy Confident Company The Hub @ Greenford Library The Literacy Company The Literature Lass The London Bookman The London Borough of Barking and Dagenham The Lounges The Met The National Archives Education Service The New Carnival Company CIC The New Saints FC Foundation Ltd The Old Department Store The Open University The Place The Poetry Society The Portico Library The Postal Museum The Premier League The Puppet Company Ltd. Therapy Dogs Nationwide The Reader The Reading Jackdaw The Rugby Football League The Scottish Fisheries Museum The Seagull Theatre The Secret Book Swap The Sensory Storyteller CIC The Story Museum The Story Sack The Story Trail / Amaze The Tim Henman Foundation The University of Edinburgh The Very Group The Village Hub The Voice Media Group Ltd/ Voice Newspaper The Wilbur & Niso Smith Foundation The Wollstonecraft Society Thriving Beyond Tickhill Community Library TimeGivers Torbay Council Torquay Library, Libraries Unlimited Trafford Libraries Treehouse Festival Tyneside and Northumberland Mind

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UKLA University of Greater Manchester University of Hull University of Leicester University of Suffolk Urban Hybrid Architecture Usborne UWE

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Valence House Museum Voice 21 Voxblock

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Wallasey Village Library & Community Centre Warwick District Council Warwickshire County Council Warwickshire Libraries Warwickshire Lieutenancy WEA We Are F.I.S.H CIC Weeping Bank Welfare Call Group Ltd Welfare Call Group Ltd West Belfast Partnership Board West Dumbartonshire Council Westminster City Council West Surrey & North East Hampshire Read Easy West Surrey Partnership West View Advice & Resource Centre Limited Whole School SEND Wigtown Festival Company Wikimedia UK Wild Rumpus CIC Winged Chariot Wirral MakeFest C.I.C Women's Community Matters Woodbridge Road Academy Worcestershire County Council Worcestershire Family Hubs Wordsworth Grasmere World Kid Lit CIC WRD Magazine Write Back

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Yellowbird Education You Are The Star Books Young Readers Society Young Writers

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