Coming up: Fundraising Evening for Reading Quest

Thursday March 1, 2012. 5:30pm – 8pm

To celebrate World Book Day, Reading Quest is holding a Fundraising Evening at the Barefoot Books Bookshop and Studio in Summertown, Oxford. A percentage of the money raised from Barefoot goods sold during the evening  will go towards Reading Quest.

There will be special book-themed nibbles to buy on the night, along with story telling and a craft workshop. Children and adults are all welcome, so please invite your family and friends to come along.

If you can’t make it on the night, you are able to go online and make purchases within a 7-day period. Simply send an e-mail to info@readingquest.org.uk and we will give you a special code to use.

All the details of our Fundraising Evening can be found on this poster. It would really help us if you printed this out and put it up in places where lots of people will see it.

We hope this will be one of out major fundraising events in 2012; the year Reading Quest celebrates the Picture Book, and we are hugely grateful to Barefoot Books for partnering us in this event.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Prince Edward, the Earl of Wessex sees Reading Quest in action!

The Earl of Wessex made a special trip to see Reading Quest in action when he visited Oxford (11/1/2012). The Earl came to see children and their families who had been involved with the Reading Quest programme.

Click here to see more pictures from the day.

Reading Quest would like to say a huge thank you to the Prince for the visit, which was a wonderful celebration of the literacy work we carry out with children and parents/carers.

Many thanks!

Reading Quest would like to say a huge thank you to Oxford Round Table for donating a cheque of £2000 from funds raised through their Fireworks Display in November 2011. This donation will provide our Family Libraries with books and literacy games to aid learning in a fun way.

Thanks, as well, go to the Reuben Foundation for their kind donation of £500, which will help us enormously in our work. St Anne’s College, Oxford, also gave a generous donation of £394 following a talk given by Reading Quest intern, Amy Chang. As with all donations, these funds will enable us to continue our work in supporting children with their literacy.  

Following the generous donation of hundreds of children’s books from the Dragon Christmas Sale, Reading Quest can now provide new books for our children to enjoy. Huge thanks goes to the Dragon Sale Committee and all those who kindly donated books. 

Equally, we would like to thank Our Lady’s Junior School in Abingdon for their generous offering of books following their bazaar before Christmas. Such resources are so important and valuable to our work. 

Without such wonderful support, we would not be able to continue our work; inspiring and supporting children on the path to literacy.

A winning combination

Reading Quest is delighted to say that it was a co-winner in a project run by Pilotlight and the RBS. The charity won £5,000 towards core costs during a glamorous presentation event at RBS offices in London. 

Piloting numeracy workshops

Teaching Assistants face big challenges trying to support pupils with numeracy, particularly when they feel the need to have better numeracy skills themselves. Reading Quest hopes to pilot a new numeracy workshop giving TAs the confidence to support pupils at various levels and using various maths programmes. Any school that is interested, should read the attached document.