The National Literacy Trust, founded in 1993, is an independent charity dedicated to building a literate nation. The importance of literacy has long been recognised: it underpins all educational achievement and is central to economic advance; it helps develop human potential and raises self-esteem. We are the only organisation concerned with raising literacy standards for all age groups throughout the UK.
Mission: The National Literacy Trust's purpose is to make an independent, strategic and practical contribution to the creation of a society in which all can enjoy the skills, confidence and pleasures of literacy to support their educational, economic, social and cultural goals.
What we are doing: Building a literate nation will take much more than just focusing on improving the education system. Everyone concerned needs to consider the broad picture and see how the home and social circumstances help lay the foundations for successful learning. We all need to work together to create the national culture in which education can thrive. Therefore the Trust focuses on
providing a support network: our web-based literacy support network, now strengthened by the Literacy and Social Inclusion project, pulls together the best ideas and information to help everyone share good practice
putting ideas into practice: our practical initiatives - Reading Is Fundamental, UK, the National Reading Campaign, Talk To Your Baby, Reading The Game, Reading Connects, and the Vital Link - develop ways of working in partnership to turn promising ideas into effective action
promoting a systems approach: our emphasis on all the factors that affect literacy achievement encourages those interventions that will be most effective in the long term:
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