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OUP Raise a Reader initiative hits the road to improve literacy levels across the country
Oxford University Press’ Raise a Reader campaign is hitting the road with a campervan full of books and reading resources, visiting 10 locations across England with lower levels of literacy.
The Raise a Reader initiative, announced last month, is supported by celebrities including Alesha Dixon and Louise Pentland and aims to provide children and young people with the tools and opportunities to become lifelong readers in the wake of the pandemic. The campervan will go on tour between 31st October and 11th November and will feature workshops and storytelling sessions with children’s authors and illustrators including Alex Falase-Koya, Korky Paul, A M Dassu, Harriet Muncaster, Anthony McGowan, Sally Nicholls and Jodie Lancet Grant
The tour will begin in Oxford on 31st October, with a visit to one of the schools participating in the Oxfordshire Raise a Reader Programme – a collaboration between OUP and the National Literacy Trust with the goal of championing reading in Oxfordshire’s most disadvantaged and under-served communities. It will then move to Brighton and Hove, Camborne, Bristol, Birmingham, Manchester, Nottingham and Cambridge before finishing in London.
Dixon said: “Reading has been a passion for me ever since I was a girl at school, and becoming a mum has been an inspiration to pass that love of books on to my own children. I’m proud to support the Raise a Reader initiative so that all children will have the opportunity to get as excited about reading as I am.”
