BookTrust Partner Survey

Our valued partners are at the heart of what we do, and we want to hear from as many people using BookTrust’s early years resources and programmes as possible. 

Every year we ask our early years partners across England, Wales and Northern Ireland to take the survey to help us understand more about the resources we provide and the difference we’re making together. 

We want to know what you think of BookTrust’s resources and support, your priorities as an organisation, and how you feel about reading and sharing stories with children and families. 

The survey will take 5–15 minutes to complete and, as a thank you for your time and contribution, you will have the opportunity to win great prizes including vouchers; bespoke mini libraries; and a storytelling experience with an author, illustrator or poet. We’ve included more detail about these prizes below. 

Each year, BookTrust works with over 25,000 partners, supporting families and children from 0–13. We work with partners in Early Years education, libraries, healthcare, social care, schools and many more. Our strong partner network spans every local authority in England and, Wales and every local council in Northern Ireland. It is integral to our mission to support children and families to experience the wide-ranging benefits that reading brings. 

We want to hear from you so that we can understand more about: 

• the organisations we work with 
• your views on the support and resources we provide 
• what we can do to further support you 

There are no right and wrong answers, and we welcome any feedback on our work (both positive and negative). The feedback you provide may be used to make changes to our programmes, but no response you give will impact your relationship with BookTrust in any way and there is no obligation to take part in the survey. Nevertheless, we would love to hear from you! 

Towards the end of the survey, you will be asked if you want to enter the prize draw and will be prompted to provide your contact information. All participants that consent to entering the prize draw and who provide their contact information will be eligible to win either: 

• A £100 Amazon voucher
• A bespoke mini library of 30 books, curated by our specialist Books Team. 

We will be randomly selecting 10 winners in total, and all participants will have an equal chance of winning regardless of which prize they choose. 

In addition, we will work with the Bookstart Coordinator from the local authority who returns the greatest proportion of surveys to facilitate a storytelling experience for their area. As part of this prize, BookTrust will put the winning Bookstart Coordinator in touch with a children’s author, illustrator or poet so that you can put on a fun-filled virtual or in-person event for families in your local authority. 

We had a great time with Leeds Libraries, who won the prize in 2024, sponsoring a very special event at Leeds Art Gallery with the super Cressida Cowell. 

You can find out more about the terms and condition for this prize here.

We will select the winners from the prize draw once the survey has closed. Please note that we may need up to three months following the prize draw to identify a suitable author, illustrator or poet. 

• Accessing your information: Only BookTrust will have access to your survey responses and this information will not be shared beyond the organisation. We will retain your information for no longer than 2 years. 
• Using the information you provide in the survey: The information gathered from this survey will be used internally to help improve our programmes, and we may publish anonymised, aggregate data externally. Any quotes we use externally to promote our work will be fully anonymised, meaning it would not be possible to identify you. By agreeing to take part in this survey, you are agreeing for us to use the information you provide in this way. 
• Contacting you: At the end of the survey, we will ask for your contact details if you choose to enter the prize draw, so that we are able to get in touch with the winners. We will also ask for your permission to recontact you about taking part in further research. Providing your contact details is completely optional and you can still enter our prize draw even if you do not want to be contacted for other purposes. Your personal contact details will not be used for any other purposes and will not be shared with a third party (with the exception of paying incentives to winners). All data will be stored securely, in compliance with GDPR regulations. Please click here if you would like to view our privacy policy. 

You have the right to request to see a copy of the information we hold about you and to request corrections or deletions of the information that is no longer required. You can ask BookTrust to stop using anything you share (e.g., images, attributable quotes) at any time, in which case it will not be used in future publications but may continue to appear in publications already in circulation or that are needed for archival purposes (such as our Annual Reports).