Fellow's Profile
Liberty Venn
Fellow's Profile
Liberty Venn
Helping schools & grassroots organisations to inspire parents to read with their children aged 0-7
Fellowship
- Themes
- Focus
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Creation of a practitioner toolkit to help engage parents of 0-7s with shared reading.
- Countries
- Fellowship year
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2026
- Supported by
- Locality
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London
Contact
Biography
I am the founder and CEO of the Children's Book Project, a national literacy charity that directly tackles book poverty and supports improved outcomes through long-term nationwide gifting programmes reaching over 200k children annually living in the most challenging circumstances. I'm passionate about the transformational power of reading on children's ability to access education, yet the UK is facing a reading crisis, with only 1 in 3 babies and children being read to at home on a regular basis.
Our partners nationwide share with us daily how they struggle to engage the most vulnerable parents within their community. My Fellowship will draw on approaches that I see in global contexts that address confidence and engagement, the complex 'human' barriers to shared reading. I will focus on creating a practical and motivating online toolkit that provides inspiration for schools and groups to engage parents in a guilt-free way with shared reading with their children.
In doing so I aim to help change the trajectory for vulnerable families across the UK while also helping to inform a national shift in how we support every parent to be their child's first teacher.
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Disclaimer
All Reports are copyright © the author. The moral right of the author has been asserted. The views and opinions expressed by any Fellow are those of the Fellow and not of the Churchill Fellowship or its partners, which have no responsibility or liability for any part of them.
