Celebrating our Life-Changing Literacy

This month we have launched our Big Give match funding campaign. The campaign lasts for one month and for every pound donated through the Big Give platform up until 5 April, the donation will be matched until we reach our campaign target, helping us to support even more children with our life-changing literacy work.

Over the last five years, The Children’s Literacy Charity has gone from strength to strength and this year we will be working in over 40 partner schools, delivering our expert programmes to more than 1100 children.

However, we remember only too well that five years ago, in March 2020, schools across the country closed at the start of the Covid pandemic. While children, families and all those involved in education have worked hard to make up for lost time, sadly, the impact of lockdowns and missed schooling is still being felt today. A 2023 Centre for Social Justice report showed that 57% of children from disadvantaged backgrounds are leaving primary school without the necessary literacy skills.

In response to the increased need for specialist literacy support, in 2021 we launched Reading Lab, our 1:3, 10-week catch up programme for older pupils and in 2022 started delivering a 1:3 Literacy Lab option, to help schools support more younger primary school children needing extra help. Both interventions have remarkable outcomes in closing the literacy gap and our goal is to help as many children as we can who need our expert support, giving them the opportunity to engage with learning, grow in confidence and realise their full potential.

One Donation, Twice the Impact!

To mark the achievements of our charity over the last 5 years, as well as celebrate our partnership with schools and funders on 5 March we launched our Big Give Match Funding ‘Life-Changing Literacy’ Campaign. The campaign runs until 5 April and for every pound you donate through the Big Give platform, the donation will be matched!

With the attainment gap the widest it has been for a decade, our work supporting children from disadvantaged backgrounds is needed now more than ever before. We can only do this though with the generous support of our funders and the hard work of the fundraising team here at the charity and that’s why we are running a Big Give Match Funding Campaign aiming to raise £50,000.