Blogs

Our blogs are written by various NLT staff on a wide range of literacy issues. We welcome your ideas and feedback, so please add your comments.

If you have any suggestions for blog topics that you would like to see our staff discuss please email us.

Communities and local areas blog posts:

• 06Feb2012
  Literacy in unexpected places

  Our Director Jonathan Douglas explains why literacy should be found in the most unexpected places from football grounds to fast food restaurants.

  Posted by Jonathan Douglas | 0 Comments

• 05Dec2011
  Could do better: latest overview of adult literacy in the UK

  National Literacy Trust Director Jonathan Douglas discusses the findings of the new 2011 Skills for Life Survey and the challenges it presents to the literacy sector.

  Posted by Jonathan Douglas | 1 Comment

• 08Nov2011
  New political group to focus on literacy

  The new All Party Parliamentary Group for Literacy will look at issues including boys and literacy and volunteering to support literacy.

  Posted by Jonathan Douglas | 0 Comments

• 07Nov2011
  Can we address poverty by focusing on literacy? Frank Field MP thinks so.

  A new report from the Institute for Fiscal Studies forecast that by 2013 there will be 3.1 million children in poverty in the UK. Frank Field MP explored the role of low literacy in poverty at our recent conference.

  Posted by Emily McCoy | 0 Comments

• 19Sep2011
  A Day in the Life of the Young Readers Programme

  How our Young Readers Programme team spends a typical day.

  Posted by Fiona Lewis | 0 Comments

• 08Sep2011
  Literacy is everybody’s business

  As we examine the factors that contributed to this summer’s riots and seek solutions, literacy support within these communities has perhaps never seemed more urgent.

  Posted by Abigail Moss | 1 Comment

• 16May2011
  The time is now: get literacy on the agenda of your child poverty partnership

  Local councils want more guidance on reducing child poverty, according to the Local Government (LG) Group. Is now the moment to push for literacy to be a priority in strategies to combat child poverty?

  Posted by Emily McCoy | 1 Comment

• 15Apr2011
  Can literacy help us shape the future in Sheffield?

  Dr Sonia Sharp, Executive Director of Children’s Services in Sheffield, explains how the council is securing the building blocks for individual success and community prosperity by embedding literacy as a priority for the future.

  Posted by Sonia Sharp | 1 Comment

• 20Jan2011
  The outlook in 2011

  Deputy Director Abigail Moss takes a look at what the future means for the National Literacy Trust.

  Posted by Abigail Moss | 0 Comments

• 16Aug2010
  The national literacy challenge: our priorities under the Coalition Government

  Director Jonathan Douglas discusses the National Literacy Trust's priorities under the new government in light of the forthcoming Spending Review.

  Posted by Jonathan Douglas | 0 Comments