# Blackwell's choose National Literacy Trust as charity of the year

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2003/11/18/blackwell039s-choose-national-literacy-trust-charity-year/
- Published: 2003-11-18T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**The National Literacy Trust has been selected by publisher Blackwell’s as its 
charity of the year, as it moves into its 125th anniversary year in 2004.**

Blackwell’s has pledged to raise £125,000 for the National Literacy Trust (NLT) 
during the partnership. The two organisations are a good match: Blackwell’s aims
to create a better educated world and the NLT aims to raise the UK’s literacy levels.

Although Blackwell’s is now known as an international academic bookseller, it began
life as a small local lending library, created specifically to make books accessible
to everyone.

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The NLT is also celebrating an anniversary next year: the only organisation concerned
with raising literacy standards for all age groups throughout the UK will be ten
years old in 2004.

Blackwell’s will run a number of activities throughout their 72 stores during the
year, including a sponsored bookstore crawl, sponsored reads and a swap-a-book scheme.

As well as its link to the NLT, Blackwell’s will continue working closely with schools,
universities and organisations to support higher education.

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