Coram Beanstalk is proud to be a lead delivery partner for The National Year of Reading 2026!
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In April, the Mayor and Mayoress of Wirral paid a very special visit to one of our partner schools.
Coram Beanstalk, The Alligator’s Mouth Book Shop, The Bright Agency and Gardners are offering schools the opportunity to win a set of the ten books longlisted for The Alligator’s Mouth Award 2026 which champions both authors and illustrators of highly illustrated children’s fiction. Find out how to enter here…
EmpathyLab provided an inspiring talk for our reading helpers last month as part of our on-going volunteer development programme – and it was very well-received!
Coram Beanstalk has today announced a new ambassador and launched a campaign in partnership with the Society of Authors aimed
Coram is chosen as Macfarlane’s Charity of the Year with staff signing up as Coram Beanstalk reading helper volunteers.
What a treat for our Coram Beanstalk schools in London just before half-term! Children came along to sessions from Sheena Dempsey and Eve Wersocki-Morris at our annual London Beanstalk Bookfest last week.
Although our schools go back in early September they often prefer our reading helpers to wait a couple of weeks
Coram Beanstalk attends the official launch of the National Year of Reading at 10 Downing Street.
Coram Beanstalk has come up with six weeks of challenges to help families to find fun ways of sharing books together as an activity during the long summer break.
In our first Coram Beanstalk online Bookfest event, Matt Goodfellow spoke to almost 1300 children across the country about his poetry, The Final Year, The First Year and finding your own space.
The winner of the Alligator’s Mouth Book Award 2025 was announced this week at a ceremony hosted by The Bright Agency. Coram Beanstalk’s Head, Amy Lewis, was on this year’s judging panel and we were there to see shortlisted authors find out which book had won.
Our Coram Beanstalk reading helper, Janine, was honoured to have been selected as a finalist in the Lambeth Civic Awards 2025 and attended a ceremony to announce the winners this week.
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