Children’s Author and Illustrator Nick Sharratt to be our National Year of Reading Ambassador
Like many literacy charities and reading organisations across the UK, we are busy preparing for the National Year of Reading 2026. This Department for Education campaign, delivered by the National Literacy Trust, seeks to address the decline in reading among children and adults. Just one in three children aged 8–18 say they enjoy reading.
While our charity’s focus is on specialist tuition across all the important literacy skills, reading engagement and the joy of stories are central to everything that we do and we’re delighted to be supporting partners of this initiative.
We also place great store by working with children’s authors whenever we can and we’re equally delighted to announce that the author and illustrator Nick Sharratt will be our Ambassador for the National Year of Reading. Nick’s work is inspirational and we feel sure that his playful creativity, colourful characters, and books such You Choose and The Foggy Foggy Forest will be invaluable in encouraging a lifelong love of reading among the children we support.
“Engaging with books at an early age and reading for pleasure as a youngster brings many important advantages in future years. The message of the National Year of Reading 2026 is that no one should be missing out on the benefits of reading and the literacy skills that come with it – an outlook that is at the heart of The Children’s Literacy Charity’s amazing school programmes. I’m really looking forward to my role as ambassador for the charity and working with them in the exciting year ahead. “
Find out more at the National Year of Reading’s new website, www.goallin.org.uk. We look forward to sharing more updates on our plans in early 2026 so do keep an eye on our website’s News & Views page.
