Children’s Book Project

Resource type: Book gifting and grants

Price band: Free

Key stage: KS1, KS2, KS3, EYFS

Region(s): All of UK

The Children’s Book Project was set up to tackle book poverty and to give children who have little or no access to books at home the opportunity to own their own books.

The initiative works through organisations and education settings that support families with a high level of financial or emotional need, providing the books and resources to help them host creative, memorable book gifting events that give every child the opportunity to choose and take home books of their own.

As of April 2024, the Children’s Book Project is currently running programmes in London, Birmingham and Leeds. Schools in these areas can apply through the main website.

Schools outside the main programme areas can register on the interactive map to allow prospective donors from their local community to find them.

Please note that the Children’s Book Project does not provide books to support school libraries.

Cost: Free.

About the Children’s Book Project: The Children’s Book Project is a registered charity founded in 2013. The charity has now donated over 1 million books, working with over 500 primary and secondary schools as well as women’s refuges, food banks and prisons.

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Children’s Book Project events are designed to promote children’s agency, create a buzz around books and help schools develop a reading community.
All the children in a setting get the opportunity to choose books to take home. This is to reinforce the school’s reading community and ensure that no one feels singled out or judged in any way.
The Children’s Book Project also provides promotional resources to support schools that would like to run a Book Drive to collect gently used books from their community to support the charity’s work. These include assembly resources, posters and a selection of videos created by some best-selling authors.