Celebrating 13 years with the Young Readers Programme

We’re celebrating 13 years in partnership with the Young Readers Programme, which aims to encourage children to read outside of the classroom.

As part of this year’s celebrations, we welcomed 270 children from Concord Junior School, Meadow View Primary School and Hatfield Academy to take part in a storytelling session designed to inspire a love of reading.

Children had the chance to listen to poems from a professional poet and take part in a range of fun activities, including making their own emoji in the Apple Store and making their own Nando’s sauce. 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 3,100 school children in Sheffield and seen more than 9,300 books donated across the region.

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

Find out more about National Literacy Trust and its Young Readers Programme.

A storyteller stands and entertains a group of school children visiting Meadowhall