LTR has been supported by the Ipswich Opportunity Area to provide dual-language children's books for the libraries in 13 early years settings (nurseries) in Ipswich, in order to help the many ESL…

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The Ipswich Opportunity Area has agreed to largely cover the costs of LTR providing a library of top quality books for each of 13 nurseries in disadvantaged areas of Ipswich. We hope to be able to obtain the several hundred books during May and get them delivered to these early years setting during June. The hope is that this scheme can be expanded to cover more of the 40 settings which LTR supports with regular Storytime visits and free book-bags for pupils.

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Because of Covid restrictions LTR has focused on giving free books to as many disadvantaged families as possible over the last 12 months. In all, we gave away…

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Despite the pandemic restrictions, LTR was able to give away a free book to 2,557 pupils in most of the early years settings across Ipswich in the last 5 months. Given the impact of the Covid restrictions on children and their long-suffering parents, we decided that we would give books to every year-group in nurseries, mainly in the…

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At short notice, in June, LTR was asked by Suffolk County Council to put together book-bags and associated activities for 933 disadvantaged children across Suffolk. Despite a very short timescale of a few weeks and the restrictions of lock-down, the team was able to rise to the challenge. In all, 1866 books were obtained and made up into 933 packages, including activity sheets for each book, crayons/pens and…

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An initiative set up to support disadvantaged families during the Covid-19 pandemic is gearing up to deliver hundreds of books to children across Ipswich this month, thanks to the generosity of a local reading charity and an education consultancy. The Community Shelf project will deliver more than 400 books donated by Let's Talk Reading and Greenfields Education, an education consultancy based in Manningtree. The Community Shelf was created at the start of the crisis by the Raedwald Multi Academy Trust and Copleston High School to deliver essential products including food, toiletries, clothing and home supplies, alongside face-to-face support for local families facing hardship. "We immediately realised how teaming…

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