LTR has been greatly honoured to be given the King's Award for Voluntary Service in yesterdays honours list. This is the equivalent of an MBE for charitable organisations and is a great accolade for all of our volunteers who work so hard throughout the year to help everyone to read, in Ipswich. LTR was one of 5 Suffolk charity organisations to win this award this year.

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Our teams, helped by staff from the Highfield Stronger Practice Hub, spent 4 days packing book-bags for over 1,100 children in early years settings across Ipswich. In addition, the volunteers packed packs for 24 mini-libraries and over 330 dual-language books. This is all part of our "books into homes" initiative.

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Suffolk County Council has awarded LTR a substantial grant to extend its literacy improvement work over the next 10 months. As well as developing our existing services for parents and babies, and early years settings, we will be…

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Authors including Sir Michael Morpurgo and Malorie Blackman have written an open letter urging the government to invest in early years reading. A BookTrust survey suggests that only half of children aged between one and two from low-income families are read to daily. The letter…

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LTR has been engaged by one of the Government's leading education teams to develop and share it's best reading practices across the whole of the Eastern Region. The Highfield 'Stronger Practice Hub', based in Ipswich has commissioned LTR to develop it's work with Early Years settings and turn this into guidance for settings across East Anglia. The work will begin at the end of January 2024 and will include our work on…

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LTR is very grateful to the SE Area Committee of the Borough Council for giving it a grant of £4,000 to continue its work in…

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