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…

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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 partnering with 2 or 3 primary schools on literacy improvement plans. We are also intending to do some ground-breaking work to investigate whether Irlens syndrome is causing many children to struggle to read. Additionally, we hope to set up two contracts with University of Suffolk to develop a business case for screening pupils who are weak readers and to improve our Impact Evaluation.

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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…

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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…

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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 the area. At a SEAC meeting on Wednesday 13th September, the committee was very complimentary about LTR's work over the last 7 years and recognised that its focus was entirely aligned with the committee's key priorities. They particularly liked LTR's work with parents and babies, in the Let's Talk Babies sessions, and the gifting of free books. They noted…

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