This year we have been delighted to welcome Stellantis as a significant funder of the charity, helping to build our grassroots delivery and drive regional expansion.
The leading global automaker Stellantis has become a major new corporate partner of the Children’s Literacy Charity. Stellantis, which designs, manufactures and markets vehicles under 14 brands including Alfa Romeo, Citroen, Peugeot and Vauxhall, will partner with us in three regions important to the corporation’s UK presence, as well as providing wider support across all our literacy programmes.
With the generous Stellantis funding, we have started delivery of our specialist literacy intervention across nine schools in Coventry, Ellesmere Port and Luton. The Stellantis grant will also support our core delivery, help to build the charity’s parental engagement programme and develop literacy resources for families. Furthermore, Stellantis is boosting our Reader Leader training programme in which older students learn how to become reading mentors for younger pupils.
Read more about why Stellantis chose to support us here.
“We were struck by the incredible impact The Children’s Literacy Charity tutors can have in supporting those children who are the furthest behind and we know from the feedback we receive from right across our business that, post Covid, the catch-up needs of many children are still great. At Stellantis we have a long history of philanthropic support and felt that by partnering with this high impact charity, we could make an important contribution to closing the attainment gap.”
Isabel Greenwood, CEO, The Children’s Literacy Charity, added:
“This new partnership with Stellantis represents an important milestone for the charity, not only enabling us to expand our delivery into new regions but also allowing us to work hand in hand with a corporate supporter at a grassroots level. We have long believed that working closely with supporters to build longer term involvement with local schools and communities is a powerful model, ensuring the children who need the most help can thrive in the secure setting of one of our Literacy or Reading Lab spaces in their school”.