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Reading Ideas
Click on your area of interest below for all kinds of ideas to encourage reading, from writing a diary to making a reading garden!
Ideas for businesses
Whether you want to get involved in the Year of Reading by supporting a partnership or support your employees with their reading you've come to the right place...
- Adopt a book
- Encourage reluctant readers in your workplace
- Invite your local library into your organisation to recruit new members
- Publicise children’s reading activities to parents
- Share your reading projects with other reading professionals
- Turn your old smoking room into a staff library
- Create a reading garden
- Volunteer to help children read at a local school
- Encourage staff to read with their children by championing a “just five minutes” approach.
- Encourage staff to recycle their reads at work
- Encourage night shift workers to pre-record bedtime stories for their children
- Invite your local library into your organisation to recruit new members
