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Rachel wins trustee of the week!
Rachel SRachel Stevenson, our treasurer, won the CTN Trustee of the Week - well done Rachel! Read more...
READ Celebration Event - a historic first for parliament
Parliament 1We recently held our READ Celebration Event, hosted by the Speaker in the Houses of Parliament - a historic first for an MP to nominate a charity to benefit from a reception in the Read more...
READ shortlisted for the Guardian Charity Awards 2009
READ have been chosen as one of 35 other charities shortlisted for the Guardian Charity Awards 2009 Read more...
The Literary Twestival
West Port Book Festival in Edinburgh launch the worlds first ever literary festival - through Twitter! Read more...
228,000 books on their way!
Books on the wayLast week we shipped over 228,000 books to Tanzania where they will be recieved later this summer. Thank you to all the hard work of our volunteers! Read more...
READ Nottingham on BBC East Midlands Today
READ Nottingham tell the East Midlands all about READ as they send their books on their way to Tanzania Read more...
An exciting trip to Tanzania
Rob Wilson recently came back from a trip to Tanzania to finalise arrangements for our new East Africa office, kindly donated by KPMG and to prepare for the 300,000 books that will Read more...
DFID Global Youth Summit
DFIDREAD attended a consultation event to help shape government policy to eliminate world poverty Read more...
Britains Biggest Book Drive - a wild success
In February we launched our largest campaign to date to collect over £17,000 and 34,000 books in just 7 days Read more...
DHL provide free logistical support
DHL logoWe are extremely grateful to DHL for providing free transportation for us throughout the UK. Every year we move thousands of books between our various regional storage sites and th Read more...