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.

• 03Aug2012
  Will the Olympic Games inspire a nation of readers?

  Jonathan Douglas, our Director, explores how the Olympic Games is creating a new cohort of role models and inspiring children to read.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 10Oct2011
  Literacy and social mobility: An overview of the Party Conferences

  The National Literacy Trust has been on the road for the past month. Hosted by Starbucks we have taken the literacy debate to the Labour, Lib Dem and Conservative Party Conferences. With such diverse participants it would be imagined that the discussions

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• 17Aug2011
  Rebuilding communities after the riots

  Director Jonathan Douglas considers the recent riots and the role of literacy in raising young people's aspirations.

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• 03Aug2011
  Reading under threat?

  The chair of judges at the Man Booker Prize recently said the reading of fiction is under threat, particularly for young people. Our Director Jonathan Douglas discusses how real this concern is in this blog.

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• 05Jul2011
  Early literacy interventions: the way forward

  Our Director Jonathan Douglas blogs about the recently released report on early interventions "Early Intervention: Smart Investment, Massive Savings".

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• 09Jun2011
  Transforming Reads

  Director Jonathan Douglas talks about our new celebrity book auction and the significance of literature and reading to all our lives.

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• 05May2011
  Literacy in the Big Society

  Our Director Jonathan Douglas looks at the latest governmental reforms to education and discusses what the Big Society will mean for charities, local services and literacy.

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