Tell Me a Story

Did your parents read with you when you were growing up?

Sharing stories and reading together as a family are vital to the development of a child’s literacy skills, yet nearly one in four children do not have a book of their own. Without adequate literacy skills a child is less likely to succeed at school and to become a happy and confident young person.

Our Tell Me a Story campaign is raising awareness that every child has the right to share stories and develop the skills they need for their future.

We need to raise funds to support children in disadvantaged areas by helping them to acquire the skills they need to develop as a reader and giving them free books to take home, and to help parents to support their children’s literacy. £30 can support the National Literacy Trust in ensuring a child hears stories and has free books to keep.

Together we can boost life chances for every child.

Pledge your support now

• Pledge your support for Tell Me a Story online now
• See who has already pledged their support

Actions you can take today

• Pledge to spend ten minutes reading with the child in your life.
• Help us raise £500,000 to support children in disadvantaged communities: donate now and find out how you can fundraise for the NLT.
• Email a friend asking them to pledge their support for Tell Me a Story too.
• Join our Facebook fan group or follow us on Twitter for the latest on our campaigning.

Actions schools can take today

• Email a colleague asking them to pledge their support for family literacy too.

Actions companies/ organisations can take today

• Promote the campaign on your website, in your newsletter, on your Facebook page or Twitter feed and on your email signatures.
• Tell your staff about the campaign and ask them to pledge their support via your intranet, staff newsletter or email.
• See how we are already working with companies

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Actions celebrities and authors can take today

• Authors and celebrities can support the campaign: it could be as simple as pledging their support, providing a quote or retweeting one of our tweets on their Twitter feed.