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The latest readathon result of £1,072,000 brought the total raised by the campaign since it started in 1984 to over £20 million. That's a lot of money and a lot of reading of a lot of books!
Thanks to everyone who helped us. |
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| When Readathon was founded in 1983 its aim was to champion children’s leisure reading, but the difference the money it raises makes to our charities and the lives of very ill children should not be overlooked. |
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| When the campaign began, we thought that Readathon would donate funds to a different charity every year, so in 1984 we gave our first cheque, £130,000, to Mencap, and the next year a slightly larger amount went to The World Wildlife Fund. |
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| Then, following some research among our supporting |
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| schools, we discovered how important it was to get the choice of charity right. Children who are well like to raise money for children who are ill, and when we started to work with CLIC Sargent, or the Malcolm Sargent Cancer Fund for Children as it was then, the number of schools wanting to take part shot up. So did the amounts of money that were raised. |
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| We changed our minds, and have stayed with the cause of sick children ever since. |
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 Roald Dahl admired the way that Readathon got children reading recreationally. He shared our concern that ‘reading for enjoyment’ was in danger of being submerged in ‘reading as a life skill’. He also applauded the fact that a lot of money was being raised for ill children. |
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| When, following his death in 1990, a Foundation was set up to help children with specific medical problems it seemed obvious that Readathon should help, alongside the support given to CLIC Sargent. |
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| " The money from Readathon has made an enormous difference to the work The Roald Dahl Foundation has been able to do to help very ill children." Liccy Dahl |
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THE CLIC SARGENT DIFFERENCE |
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CLIC Sargent is the UK’s leading children’s cancer charity. |
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The emotional care and support, as well as financial help, that it gives makes a vital difference to children with cancer and their families. |
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"Every day 10 families are told their child has cancer. CLIC Sargent is the only charity that offers them all round care and support. Readathon's amazing contribution to our work makes a HUGE difference to the children and families that we support, keeping them together when the unimaginable happens." Niki Betts Head of National Events, CLIC |
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| Two £1,000 winners! |
| Thanks to two of our supporting publishers, two lucky schools have won £1,000 worth of books. All they had to do was stage a Readathon during last winter term. |
 St Aldan's Technological College, Poulton-le-Fylde, Lancashire win £1,000 worth of books of their choice from Random House, publishers of Eragon. |
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 Walmley Junior School Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham win £1,000 worth of books of their choice from Harper Collin's Children's Books, publishers of Dr Seuss. |
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| Congrats! 30 sets of Eragon books and 50 sets of Dr Seuss books have been won by the lucky runners up! |
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