National Year of Reading - Learning with Parents

About this episode

In this episode, Katy and Alison speak with Tom Harbour about promoting reading among young people through the charity Learning with Parents.

For the National Year of Reading, we are sharing a series of short conversations with people who are involved in promoting reading with young people. This could be a programme, resources or a literary event, and we're giving them the opportunity to share what they do and how people can get involved. In this episode we are joined by Tom Harbour the CEO of Learning with Parents. Learning with Parents is a charity whose vision is that every child is supported at home to fulfil their potential.&n...

People in this episode

Hosts: Katy Donnelly, Alison Palmer

Guest: Tom Harbour

Topics covered

• reading
• education
• children
• literacy
• charity

Keywords

• National Year of Reading
• promoting reading
• young people
• literary event
• resources

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Learning with Parents

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