After two years of disrupted service in schools, Coram Beanstalk are delighted to publish their latest Impact Report for the year 2021 - 2022. Read stories from across the Coram Beanstalk community of children, schools and volunteers - and see our latest impact statistics. Read more
Coram Beanstalk, The Alligator's Mouth Book Shop and The Bright Agency are offering schools the opportunity to win a set of the ten books longlisted for The Alligator’s Mouth Award 2022, which champions both authors and illustrators of highly illustrated children’s fiction. Nominate a UK-based school to win a set of the ten longlisted books for their school library here... Read more
Coram Beanstalk partner school, Parklands Primary in Leeds, celebrated National Storytelling Week with us by filling our twitter feed with photos and videos of their children talking about their favourite stories, reading books and sharing their book recommendations, reviews and reasons for reading! Read more
A wondrous new collection of Roald Dahl inspired pyjamas and bedding for kids is now available at Very.co.uk. Better yet, for every sale from the collection, Very will donate all profits to Coram Beanstalk. Read more
Come along to a pop-up event in London on 17th August where our charity partner Very will be giving away uniform and books with some very special guests! Event details Date: Tuesday 17th August Time: 11:30am-4:30pm; celebrity hosts will be on-site from 12pm-2pm Location: Observation Point, 56 Upper Ground, London SE1 9PP Entry: Free entry, no need to book Read more
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Coram Beanstalk and Coram Life Education have created a free 'reconnect and recover toolkit' for schools to help them support children's mental health. Read more
Coram Beanstalk and Very.co.uk are asking children to cheer up their neighbours on World Book Day! Rather than asking them to dress up as their favourite character on March 4th, as they might have done at school or nursery, we're asking children to dress up the windows of their house or flat instead, by drawing pictures of their favourite book characters, entering them into our World Book Day competition and then displaying them in their windows. Read more
Coram Beanstalk is delighted to announce that 30 of our partner schools, and schools working with Coram Life Education, across Liverpool, Bolton and the East Midlands will receive 300 laptops and education packs as part of our ongoing partnership with The Very Group. Read more
National Storytelling Week is organised each year by the Society for Storytelling and this year the celebrations take place between 30th January - 6th February. We couldn't miss this opportunity to talk about how important storytelling is to us! Read more
Children need to understand that factual books are just as worthy as fiction when it comes to reading for pleasure. Read more