BookTrust Partner Survey
This page has everything you need to know about our annual survey for early years partners. This is where our partners who deliver our early years programmes can have their say on BookTrust’s resources, programmes and support.
Take the survey
Click through the options below if you would like to find out more about the survey or click the button below to take the survey now.
The latest findings
We would like to say a huge thank you to the 616 early years delivery partners in England, Wales and Northern Ireland who took the 2025 BookTrust Partner Survey. We heard from a wide range of partners working in early years education (31%), libraries (20%), multiagency settings such as children’s centres and family hubs (18%), early years health (16%) and primary schools in Wales (11%).
Bookstart is brilliant to show parents the enjoyment that their child gets out of books when showing them during the home visit. This boosts parents’ understanding and awareness to make sure reading is part of their routine.
Health Visitor, Wales
Key findings:
96% of our early years partners said BookTrust’s work in supporting children and families to start reading or to read more is impactful [1].
96% of our early years partners said BookTrust’s resources help them to engage children and families with reading [2].
88% of our early years partners said BookTrust supports their organisation to meet their overall objectives [2].
Cite: BookTrust Partner Survey (2025), online survey of 614 BookTrust early years delivery partners in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland. Base 1: All survey respondents (614). Base 2: All survey respondents who had used our programmes or online resources (603).
The baby, 1–2 and 3–4 packs greatly supports our work at Sure Start. I am a Speech & Language Therapist and the packs really complement our programmes which all focus on the importance of reading and singing with your child. We have noticed the negative impact of screen-time and really appreciate these resources which are modern and brand new and makes families more likely to actually use them at home.
SureStart Centre, Northern Ireland
Supporting the work of our partner organisations
We asked our early years partners how effective our physical programmes and online resources were in supporting the following aspects of their work.
Cite: BookTrust Partner Survey (2025), online survey of 616 early years partners in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland. Base: BookTrust early years partners for whom each of these areas is a priority (565–577 per statement).
Resources from BookTrust are instrumental in helping us support families to overcome these kinds of challenges as it gives us a great way to introduce families to the library service and to show how to use the resources without being condescending. The resources are excellent for families to take home and use in their own environment.
Library, North East England
Read more of our research
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This page summarises the latest findings from our evaluation of Bookstart Toddler and Pre-schooler, our programme for children aged 1–4, supporting them to have fun reading and sharing stories with their families.
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This page summarises the latest findings from our BookTrust Storytime programme evaluation.
About the 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 years 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!
Cressida Cowell at a Leeds Libraries event, won by the Leeds team during the BookTrust Partners Survey 2024.
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).
Get in touch
If you have any questions or would like to get in touch with the Research and Impact team at BookTrust, please email us at [email protected] with ‘BookTrust Partner Survey’ in the subject line.