The leading adult literacy charity, Read Easy Ipswich, has decided to amalgamate with LTR, forming a total team of 46 volunteers. The group will continue as an identifiable team within LTR, ably managed by Alison Stewart-Wheeler and Jenny Rivett. The combined team will have more scope to grow and support more services to improve literacy across Ipswich.

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The Cooperative Bank Plc has awarded LTR a grant of £1,000 to develop its services across Ipswich.

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LTR has been awarded £9,999 by the Lottery 'Awards for All' fund. John Helleur, Chair of LTR said that this is a major step forward for the local charity as it starts to bring in substantial funding from outside of Ipswich. "This grant enables us to build on our most successful year in 22/23 with the funding to start setting…

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LTR was able to get back to normal operation from July 2022 and has had its most successful 12 months since it was launched in 2016. Nearly 12,000 people across Ipswich benefited from the charity's work, with nearly 9,000 free books supplied. Some 60 LTR and Read Easy Ipswich volunteers contributed about 2,500 free…

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LTR gave away its 20,000th free book in Ipswich by the end of March 2023, after 6 and a half years of operation. This target was hit 2 years ahead of its 2025 expected date. We are particularly proud of having supplied mini-libraries to nearly every one of 40 nurseries (Early years settings) and 17 school nurseries. These libraries included books on 'feelings' as well as popular picture storybooks, and also dual-language and 'starting school' books.

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LTR provided a free book to all children in 40 nurseries across Ipswich for Christmas 2022. This year we delivered 2,350 books in bright Christmassy paper carrier…

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