Booktrust is proud of working with a number of organisations, all of whom help us to deliver our many programmes and campaigns.
Funding
Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF)
The DCSF funds the Bookstart and Booked Up bookgifting schemes, and part funds (in association with Pearson Education) the Booktime bookgifting scheme.
Arts Council England (ACE)
Booktrust is one of ACE's regularly funded organisations.
Visit the Arts Council website
Partners
Pearson Education
Pearson, an international education and publishing company, funds the Booktime project.
NIACE
Booktrust is proud to sponsor NIACE's Booktrust: Power of Reading Award.
EU READ
Booktrust is a member of EU READ, a Europe-wide task force for reading and reading promotion.
Free Word
Booktrust is a founder member of Free Word, a centre for literature, literacy and free expression. Its mission is innovation and collaboration, pushing boundaries to promote, protect and democratise the power of the written and spoken word for creative and free expression.
The Reading Agency
Booktrust works with The Reading Agency to offer participating branch libraries a free Booktime library resource pack and to promote the Booktrust Teenage Prize.
Visit The Reading Agency website
The Unwin Charitable Trust
The Trust's UK-Australia Fellowship funds a member of the Australian publishing world to visit the UK and vice versa in alternate years, to carry out projects of mutual benefit to the book industry of each country.
Find out more about the Fellowship
WRVS
WRVS are assisting Bookbite by helping to deliver copies of the Bookbite magazine to their volunteers to use with the people they visit.
UK online
UK online centres are staffed by experts at helping people use computers and the internet. They’re based in places like libraries and community centres and are assisting on the Bookbite project.
