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Citypress/ Drake Circus Young readers event at Drake Circus, Plymouth, Devon captured June 10th 2024.

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We’re celebrating 13 years of the Young Readers Programme!

We’re celebrating 13 years in partnership with the Young Readers Programme – the award-winning initiative from our owner British Land and the National Literacy Trust, which aims to encourage children to read outside of the classroom.

As part of this year’s celebrations, we welcomed 273 children from Mount Street Primary, The Cathedral School and High Street Primary to take part in a storytelling session designed to inspire a love of reading.

Children had the chance to listen to stories from a professional storyteller and take part in a range of fun activities, including bath bomb workshop with Lush and ‘story hide and seek’ at The Entertainer. We also gave each child a book of their choice to take home for free.

The Young Readers Programme is especially designed to provide additional support and help with the development of children in under privileged areas by giving them better access to books.

We’ve taken part in the programme for the last 13 years and have helped to support more than 3,000 school children in Plymouth and seen more than 9,200 books donated across the region.

Research from the National Literacy Trust shows that reading for enjoyment among 8 – 18-year-olds in the South West is at its lowest since 2005 – for almost two decades.

To find out more about National Literacy Trust and its Young Readers Programme, visit: Young Readers Programme.

 

Citypress/ Drake Circus Young readers event at Drake Circus, Plymouth, Devon captured June 10th 2024.

 

 

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