Happy New Year! We're thrilled about what 2026 and the National Year of Reading have in store. A powerful coalition of reading charities will champion reading for everyone, everywhere. We're definitely 'Going All In' with our focus on reaching schools, prisons and disadvantaged children. #GoAllIn

Christmas Eve in Iceland is the culmination of Jólabókaflód, the Yule Book Flood. Books are exchanged as gifts and the evening spent cosy with a new story. Read our reviews of our chosen books: https://bit.ly/3Y3DhGS Wishing you a happy Jólabókaflód and Merry Christmas 🎁📚 #ReadingForPleasure

We're continuing our homage to Jólabókaflód, the Icelandic tradition of giving and reading books on Christmas Eve. Here are more of the books the Give a Book team will be gifting this festive season. For longer and other recommendations, read our blog: bit.ly/3Y3DhGS #ReadingForPleasure

Jólabókaflód is the Icelandic tradition close to our hearts. On Christmas Eve, Icelanders spend the evening gifting books. In the run-up to Christmas, we'll be sharing some of the books we'll be giving this festive season. For more reviews, read our blog: bit.ly/3Y3DhGS #ReadingForPleasure

A big thank you to the Primrose Hill Community Library 💛 The library has generously donated books for our Books for First Nighters project. #PrisonReadingGroups #PrisonReform #LibrariesMatter #Libraries

December's #BookOfTheMonth is The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono. It's chosen by James Reed CBE, Chairman & CEO of Reed, Britain’s biggest recruitment brand, and Chair of Trustees for Big Give. Buy on our page on Bookshop.org: https://ow.ly/2Q2K50XJEEs#BookOfTheMonthand we'll receive 10% of the proceeds ❤️

Philip Pullman, Richard Osman, @joannechocolat.bsky.social & @katemossewriter.bsky.social are some of the authors calling for library membership to be linked to birth registration. This is a subject very close to our hearts. Read more in @theobserveruk.bsky.social by @vanessathorpe.bsky.social

A huge thank you to our ambassador Toby Stephens and the Daily Express' Matt Nixson for this wonderful article, which highlights our work in prisons. The Big Give has come to a close, but we are still fundraising on our website: giveabook.org.uk/make-a-donat... #Charity #ReadingForPleasure

🎉 We did it! Thanks to your amazing generosity, we hit our £15,000 target. Huge thanks to Reed Educational Trust for match funding donations & to @biggive.bsky.social We’re still raising funds for our prison reading groups, so please share, donate, or tag a friend to match your gift. Thank you 💛

📚📖📘 Make double the difference this week! Until midday 9th of December, all donations made via Big Give will be doubled thanks to matched funding! 🔗 Donate and make double the difference today: https://donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05WS000005e9XxYAI @biggive.bsky.social‬ #BigGive

One donation - double the impact. 📚 This week... £6 gives TWO books to people who really need them! 📚 🔗 Click here to donate and make double the difference today: https://donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05WS000005e9XxYAI Thank you to Reed Educational Trust Limited 🙏 Big Give‬ #BigGive

The time has come! It's Giving Tuesday and Big Give's Christmas Challenge is officially LIVE! 🕰️🌟 Until noon 9th December, all donations via Big Give will be doubled. Get more from your giving today! 🔗 Click here to donate: https://donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05WS000005e9XxYAI Big Give #BigGive

⏳24 hours to go! Tomorrow - Tues 2 Dec, 12pm - the Big Give Christmas Challenge goes live! Donate via Big Give and your support will be doubled! Get more from your giving! 📚 👉 Click here to learn more: https://donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05WS000005e9XxYAI Big Give #BigGive

Happy Sunday from Give a Book! 🎄 The Big Give Christmas Challenge goes live in 48 hours! All donations will be DOUBLED during the week - bringing books and the pleasure of reading to the hardest places. 🔗 Find out more: https://donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05WS000005e9XxYAI Big Give‬ #BigGive

From 2 – 9 Dec, donations to Give a Book will be DOUBLED during Big Give's Christmas Challenge! Donations will support our prison reading groups, which promote connection through reading. Reed Educational Trust Limited 🙏 https://donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05WS000005e9XxYAI Big Give #BigGive

📚 Support reading in prison during Big Give’s Christmas Challenge! From 2–9 Dec, any donation via Big Give will be doubled! 📽️ Watch Give A Book's film with @Media_Trust to see how our prison reading groups create solace and connection: https://vimeo.com/1033447319?fl=pl&fe=vl Big Give #BigGive

🎁 Big Give's Christmas Challenge is going live just next week! Access to reading changes lives for the better. ❤️ 🔗 Click here to find out more about our Big Give campaign: https://donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05WS000005e9XxYAI Reed Educational Trust Limited 🙏 Big Give #BigGive

🎉 Our FINAL store day of the year! 🎉 We got festive early - packing and sending 45+ boxes of books to Winter Family Days in prisons across the UK. 📦🎄 Huge thanks to our amazing volunteers from @virginmedianews.bsky.social @ipsosintheuk.bsky.social, Fora & dedicated individuals! #StoreDay #Charity

One week to go! 📚 This #BigGive, Give a Book is raising funds for our project Prison Reading Groups - helping more prisoners find solace and connection through reading! All your donations via Big Give 2-9 Dec will be doubled at no extra cost! Help us spread the word 💬 Big Give‬ #BigGive

⏳ In just over a week, your donations via Big Give will go twice as far in supporting our prison reading groups! Our prison reading groups become communities, encouraging empathy and relationship building amongst members. 👥 https://donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05WS000005e9XxYAI Big Give #BigGive

£100 usually supports ONE prison reading group for a month, but during Big Give's Christmas Challenge it will support TWO! From midday 2 – 9 Dec, all donations via Big Give are doubled 🔗 Click here to find out more: https://donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05WS000005e9XxYAI Big Give #BigGive

🎁 From 2 – 9 Dec, your donations to Give a Book will be DOUBLED during Big Give's Christmas Challenge! Donations via Big Give will support our prison reading groups, which promote connection through reading. https://donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05WS000005e9XxYAI Big Give #BigGive

One donation - double the impact. 📚 From midday Dec 2 - midday Dec 9, £6 gives TWO books to people who really need them! 📚 🔗 Click here to find out more about our Big Give campaign: https://donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05WS000005e9XxYAI Reed Educational Trust Limited 🙏 Big Give #BigGive

So excited to be taking part! 🎉

🎁 Big Give's Christmas Challenge is going live in under two weeks! Access to reading can change lives for the better. ❤️ 🔗 Click here to find out more about our Big Give campaign: https://donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05WS000005e9XxYAI Reed Educational Trust Limited 🙏. Big Give #BigGive

Save the date: The Big Give Christmas Challenge runs noon Dec 2 - noon Dec 9. We're raising funds for our Prison Reading Groups. Every donation sent via Big Give in 2 weeks time will be DOUBLED thanks to matched funding! https://donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05WS000005e9XxYAI Big Give #BigGive

What a beautiful prison mural painted by Justin Rollins, with Give a Book written as one of the titles on the bookcase! 🎨📚 We love working with Justin, and many of our prison reading groups have enjoyed discussions about his book 'The Lost Boyz: A Dark Side of Grafitti'. Waterside Press

📚 Another brilliant Store Day - with an abundance of amazing volunteers! We packed 60 boxes of books for our projects Books in the Nick & Books for First Nighters. Huge thanks to the teams from @virginmedianews.bsky.social & Danone, and for all the wonderful book donations. 💛 #StoreDay

📚 Give a Book is searching for a brilliant Charity Administrator to keep our small but mighty team running smoothly - a perfect role for someone who loves organisation, purpose, and making a real impact. To find out more check out the full job spec - giveabook.org.uk/support-us/c...

This Black History Month, we’re celebrating books by Black British authors, favourites in our reading projects. These books reach: ✨ Prison reading groups ✨ Books in the Nick & Books for First Nighters ✨ Family Days ✨ Raising Readers @kitdewaal.com @malorieblackman.bsky.social @dapsdraws.bsky.social

☀️ 'This month the report comes from HMP Wandsworth where one of the PRG groups read Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun. We talked a lot about where feelings come from – are they innate or are they learned?' Read more on our blog: prisonreadinggroups.org.uk/reading-grou... @faberbooks.bsky.social

We loved receiving these photos from a prison family day we supported. 👪 We send carefully selected new books. 'Lovely for my partner to be able to read a story for our little girl.' - parent at a prison family day 💛 giveabook.org.uk/project/prg-... #ReadingforPleasure #FamilyDays #PrisonReform

We’re so excited to be working together as well! 🙌🙌📚 giveabook.org.uk/support-us/l...

I managed to capture the great work of @giveabookorg.bsky.social on a recent trip into HMP Isis, the first few hours in a cell with nothing must be an incredibly difficult time, having access to something to read is essential.

Will you supply books to police stations? 👮🏾📚 Give a Book supplies London police stations with specifically selected books for detainees to read whilst they are being held and to keep when they leave. Leave a legacy: giveabook.org.uk/support-us/l... @rememberacharity.bsky.social #WillYou

🏫 Will you support reading for pleasure in schools? Give a Book works with UK schools to support reading for pleasure. We arrange author visits & create bright, imaginative reading space for the whole school to enjoy. Leave a legacy: giveabook.org.uk/support-us/l... @rememberacharity.bsky.social

Will you support families reading together at prison visits? 📚📚 Give a Book supports family days in prisons across the UK with books for families to enjoy together & for children to take home. 💛 Leave a legacy: giveabook.org.uk/support-us/l... @rememberacharity.bsky.social #RememberACharityWeek

📚Will you support parents in prison to read with their children? Raising Readers offers parents in prison the chance to choose a book to send home to their child, while keeping a copy themselves.💛 Leave a legacy: giveabook.org.uk/support-us/l... @rememberacharity.bsky.social #RememberACharityWeek

📚Will you support prison reading groups? Our project Prison Reading Groups runs in 80+ prisons nationwide - promoting community, connection & change through books. 🔗 Find out how you can support us by leaving a gift in your Will: giveabook.org.uk/support-us/l... @rememberacharity.bsky.social

📅 This week is Remember A Charity Week! It's an opportunity to consider leaving a gift to a charity in your Will, after looking after your family and friends. 💛 👉 Learn more: giveabook.org.uk/support-us/l... @rememberacharity.bsky.social #RememberACharityWeek #WillYou #Readingforpleasure

We packed 60 boxes of books this week for Books in the Nick & Books for First Nighters! 📚 Huge thanks to volunteers from London Speaker Bureau, @virginmedianews.bsky.social, Fora Space + our regulars! 🤝 & thanks to @foxandinkbooks.bsky.social for donating The Magickal Summer of Evie Edelman!

📸 Captured inside HMPYOI Isis by @andyaitchison.bsky.social. 📚 For 3 years we’ve run the project - Isis: A Reading Prison - to raise the profile of reading across the prison. 🙏 A huge thank you to @manwithbooks.bsky.social, The Sheriffs’ and Recorder’s Fund & HH Wendy Joseph QC for their support.

We're proud to provide books for all 6 mother & baby units in UK prisons - helping mums share the joy of reading with their little ones. 💛📚👶 👉 Learn more: giveabook.org.uk/project/moth... @panmacmillan.bsky.social @scholasticuk.bsky.social #MotherandBabyUnits #ReadingforPleasure #PrisonReform

Thrilled to receive these brilliant Very Short Introductions from @oxfordunipress.bsky.social - gifted by Jenny Hartley, co-founder of Prison Reading Groups and author of the Charles Dickens edition! 📚✨ Perfect for our adult reading projects. 💡 More on what we do: giveabook.org.uk/projects/

We loved this feedback from a prisoner parent at a Family Day we supported. 💛 Give a Book provides hand-picked books for children to choose from and when we can, volunteers to encourage shared reading. 🧸📖 Learn more: giveabook.org.uk/projects/pro... #FamilyDays #ReadingForPleasure #BooksConnect

🪶 Several of our prison reading groups picked Claire Keegan’s book Small Things Like These this year. One reader said: 'I didn’t think it would be my kind of book […] But it takes hold of you and by the end I loved it.' Read more: prisonreadinggroups.org.uk/reading-grou... @faberbooks.bsky.social

'Seeing the children’s excitement as they received their books, and the emotional reactions of parents, was incredibly moving.' 💙 Amreeta from the MoJ volunteered with Give a Book at a prison Family Day and shared her reflections. Read more: giveabook.org.uk/2025/08/06/r... #FamilyDays #Volunteer

Another great store day! 📚 We packed 32 boxes for Books for First Nighters & Books in the Nick - sending books to people in custody suites & prison. Huge thank you to our fab volunteers from @virginmedianews.bsky.social, WeWork, MoJ as well as our regulars! 🙌 Join us: giveabook.org.uk/volunteer/ 📦

Exciting news: we recently welcomed author Sebastian Faulks to HMP Wandsworth, where we run 3 reading groups! 📚 His novel The Seventh Son sparked conversations on science, morality & humanity. ⚛️ ⚛️ 🔗 prisonreadinggroups.org.uk/sebastian-faulks-visit @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social #AuthorVisit

Give a Book is supporting reading in 8 Tower Hamlets schools this year! We’re refreshing libraries and running projects: ✏️ Page to Picture – kids redesign book covers without seeing the original! 📖 Picture Book Club – Year 5s read with Year 1s. ❤️ #ReadingForPleasure