Readathon is free and couldn’t be easier to run.

Apply for your Readathon pack. You can do this online - just click here! 

Your pack contains everything you need, including sponsorship forms, to help you make the most of the event.

Then follow our guide on how to collect and send your sponsorship money – easy to do either online or by post.

You decide. You can run Readathon whenever you like – including during school holidays. Readathon is a perfect way to celebrate all sorts of events such as Roald Dahl Day (13th September) or Children’s Book Week (starts 5th October).

• Readathon gives schools a straightforward, motivating and rewarding way to boost the reading skills of all their pupils – boys as well as girls.
• The more children read, the better their chances of succeeding in school and the world beyond.
• Readathon has been going for 25 years and has raised over £21 million to support children with serious illnesses.
• Every school taking part in Readathon can buy half-price Penguin, Puffin, Dorling Kindersley and Ladybird books.

Readathon is the UK’s National Sponsored Reading Event. It gives a massive boost to pupils’ reading skills AND supports the life-changing work of two fantastic children’s charities. Every year thousands of schools across the UK take part.

This year we want YOURS to be one of them.