Every minute counts! If we reach One Million Minutes of reading, we will be able to ‘unlock’ book boxes for local community groups and donate a day of storytelling for children at Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital. You can get involved as a school, community group, or even as an individual by joining the Challenge today!
What is the One Million Minute Challenge?
In hospital, books provide escape, distraction, comfort and reassurance. Read for Good supplies brand new books and a professional storyteller who works with children on the wards. Our One Million Minutes Challenge will be supporting these children and their families to access books and reading at a time when it really matters. In 2019, we brought you the hugely successful Manchester Readathon, so Read for Good and Read Manchester are joining forces again to launch a fantastic free challenge to promote reading in your school, business or community and support children’s reading in hospital. The ten schools/organisations/individuals contributing the most minutes will be invited to nominate a local community group to receive a box of fabulous new books.
Schools – here’s what you need to know
- Sign up to get early-bird access to free in-person and virtual meet-the-author sessions during the Challenge
- Free, online tool – Track My Read – to capture and analyse reading in your school for the Challenge and beyond.
- Register by 15th October and be entered into a prize draw to win 50 books for your school library.
- Log your minutes for the Challenge by using Track My Read or by letting us know your total minutes. (we’ll explain more once you register) · Register here to take part in the Challenge.
- · Why not set up your own challenge to read more in your class than other classes in school? Or if you’re in a Trust, you could challenge other schools to read too.
- · There is no cost and no sponsorship ask.
Community groups/businesses/individuals – here’s what you need to know
- Everyone reading will help us create a city of readers! Why not register your organisation and set yourselves your own target to read more than your friends/colleagues or other teams? A bit of healthy competition can be motivating! Register here to take part in the Challenge.
- This Challenge is for EVERYONE (although some of the language on Track My Read is directed at schools)
- You can log your minutes for the Challenge by using Track My Read or by letting us know your total minutes (we’ll explain more once you register)
- There is no cost and no sponsorship ask
So now you know, there’s one million reasons to join in!
Head to Read for Good to find out more.
Massive thanks to the super talented illustrator, Sarah McIntyre for the gorgeous drawings.