World Book Day - Book Drive
Posted 27th February 2025
We need your help.....
To celebrate World Book Day, we are holding a Book Drive for the charity Children’s Book Project during the week beginning Monday 3 March. Please bring in any books you have grown out of so that they can find new homes with others across the local community. Alternatively, you may wish to purchase an old favourite to donate. We can accept any children’s books in good condition.
Where to donate
- Please hand them into Reception or ask your child to bring them to the LRC.
About the project
Across the UK 1 in 4 disadvantaged children owns fewer than 10 books, whilst 1 in 8 have no books. This has an impact not only on these children’s academic outcomes but also on their wellbeing, emotional development and sense of themselves as a reader.
The Children’s Book Project directly tackles this ‘book gap’ and gifts donated books to targeted communities across the UK. Schools, community groups, women’s groups and prisons nationwide put on book gifting events at which children are invited to choose a book to take home and keep. The charity expects to gift upwards of 500,000 books this year.
