A nationwide training programme has been launched to help upskill parents (or other members of the community) who volunteer in primary schools to support children's reading skills and encourage reading for pleasure. Read more
McCarthy & Stone staff have been dressing up as their favourite book characters as part of efforts to raise money for Coram Beanstalk... Read more
Volunteers and children welcomed Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Cornwall to Liverpool Central Library in celebration of the early years Story Starters programme. Read more
National reading charity Beanstalk is joining the Coram group of charities to become Coram Beanstalk from 1 February 2019. Read more
A nationwide training programme has been launched to help upskill parents (or other members of the community) who volunteer in primary schools to support children's reading skills and encourage reading for pleasure.Read more
McCarthy & Stone staff have been dressing up as their favourite book characters as part of efforts to raise money for Coram Beanstalk...Read more
Kent and Medway schools are being encouraged to share their inspiring literacy initiatives as part of the Kent Literacy Awards 2019.Read more
This World Book Day we want to highlight the life-changing power of books and the work our volunteers do across England turning children into confident readers.Read more
This week McCarthy & Stone’s CEO, John Tonkiss, presented Coram Beanstalk with a cheque for £15,000 to kick start their pledge to raise over £100,000 during 2019 to help support the charity’s vital reading support programmes.Read more
Volunteers and children welcomed Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Cornwall to Liverpool Central Library in celebration of the early years Story Starters programme.Read more
National reading charity Beanstalk is joining the Coram group of charities to become Coram Beanstalk from 1 February 2019.Read more
McCarthy & Stone – the UK’s leading retirement housebuilder – has chosen national reading charity Beanstalk as its charity partner of the year for 2019 to help improve the outcomes for children who struggle with reading while promoting the wellbeing benefits of intergenerational volunteering.Read more
Beanstalk has donated hundreds of children’s books as part of an initiative run by the London Children’s Book Project which works with settings across the capital to redistribute thousands of new and gently used books to children and their families.Read more
Beanstalk is urging more people to become reading helpers in 2019 to not only help transform the lives of children who struggle with reading, but also to discover how being a volunteer can positively change their own lives and significantly improve wellbeing.Read more