About.Maidenhead’s Big Read is planned as a new annual event that aims to engage and unite local people of all ages and backgrounds with reading, with a particular focus on those children and adults who are currently missing out on all that a love of books can provide.
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What's it all About?Big Read Stop: incorporating the Festival bookshop, book swap area, reading groups and display areas. A place to relax, unwind and curl up with a book, magazine or comic, a place to let your imagination run wild!
Big Read Inspiration Theatre: Bringing bestselling authors, sporting heroes, prominent politicians, influential journalists and stars of the screen to share their stories and lives with the public. Inspiring young readers: Our local school’s programme and family events include large and small village school events, character costume days and storytelling events. Our Objectives
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Our GoalsMaidenhead’s Big Read, organised by Maidenhead Community Book Festival, will help to improve the attainment of children in our schools, bring families and neighbours together to share books, stories and activities, and will increase reading and associated wellbeing in our community.
Local people recognise that Maidenhead's Big Read is important because in our primary schools some children are falling behind or failing to develop a love of reading that can sustain them into adult life. Encouraging their parents to read would bring families closer together. Developing a love of reading is important because a growing number of studies show that promoting reading can have a major impact on children and adult’s wellbeing and future attainment. Evidence from OECD (2002) found that reading enjoyment is more important for children’s educational success than their family’s socio-economic status; and that reading for pleasure could be one important way to help combat social exclusion and raise educational standards. Maidenhead’s Big Read hopes to address this issue and inspire those who are currently missing out. Maidenhead’s Big Read is organised by Maidenhead Community Book Festival and is an independent, not-for-profit organisation, governed by non-executive Board Members. The Committee is made up of a group of dedicated, hardworking volunteers who collectively put in hundreds of hours to deliver continually evolving and successful reading development projects. |
Our Team
Stephan Stephan
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Lisa Hunter
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Lisa Poole
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