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LTR Provides Dual-Language Books for Nurseries
Thursday 29th July 2021
JH
LTR has been supported by the Ipswich Opportunity Area to provide dual-language children's books for the libraries in 13 early years…
LTR engaged to provide libraries for Nurseries
Saturday 1st May 2021
JH
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…
LTR gifts 6,400 free books in the last year.
Saturday 1st May 2021
JH
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 nearly 6,400 books, mostly to children. Overall, this should have benefited about 8,500 people. We are indebted to the staff in the 40 nurseries, 19 schools, HomeStart, ICENI plus the Suffolk County Council who identified pupils and families, and who distributed our book-bags to the recipients. Keep Reading!!
LTR provides a free book for all nursery pupils in Ipswich
Saturday 1st May 2021
JH
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 disadvantaged areas of the town. Most of these gifts were made running up to Christmas, but some were finally delivered in during the…
LTR Successfully supports Summer in a Box Project
Friday 20th November 2020
JH
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…
LTR Supports "Community Shelf" Project
Wednesday 10th June 2020
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…