National Year of Reading

What is the National Year of Reading?

A campaign to help build a greater love of reading, highlighting the benefits that reading for pleasure and purpose can bring to people of all ages. It aims to encourage more people to read more.

"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body" Joseph Addison

Take up the Reading Challenge

Every individual, every family, every organisation and every workplace is being asked to take up the National Year of Reading challenge. It asks people to focus on the importance of reading and take up the reading habit.

• Why not commit to sharing reading with your children every night?
• Join your local library and benefit from an endless resource of new reading opportunities.
• Recommend good reads by sharing books with friends, family and colleagues, motivate others to become avid readers.
• Become part of Hampshire's Signature Books by adding a line about the book you're reading to your email signature and share your reading with others.
  
  
• Join or start a reading group
• Bring reading into your workplace through Book Swap Boxes

Six Word Story - the Winners