The initiative, supported by the Department for Education (DfE), goals to encourage studying for pleasure amongst youngsters and adults alike.
This marketing campaign was launched as analysis signifies a big decline in studying enjoyment throughout all age teams.
This pattern ‘impacts cognitive improvement, language, essential pondering expertise, and widening social and financial inequalities’.
Research from the 2025 National Literacy Trust’s Annual Literacy Survey reveals that just one in three youngsters and youths aged 8 to 18 take pleasure in studying of their free time.
It additionally exhibits {that a} mere one in 5 reads one thing every day.
Further proof from the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS, 2021) exhibits that solely 29 per cent of 9 to ten-year-old pupils in England mentioned they “very much like reading”, in comparison with the worldwide common of 46 per cent.
Disengagement from studying additionally extends into maturity.
Research from The Reading Agency (2024) underscores a scarcity of studying amongst adults, with many citing boundaries like time constraints, low confidence, and poor entry to related studying supplies.
The National Year of Reading 2026 goals to rectify this challenge by making studying an element of on a regular basis tradition, underneath the banner ‘Go All In’.
The marketing campaign is predicted to interact folks from all walks of life with a various calendar of actions.
More than 60 organisations are backing the marketing campaign.
To enable you to get began, we have rounded up all the pieces you’ll want to find out about native libraries.
Library listing
Barrow Library – Ramsden Square, Barrow
Opening instances
Monday: 9.30am to 6pm
Tuesday: 9.30am to 6pm
Wednesday: 9.30am to 6pm
Thursday: 9.30am to 6pm
Friday: 9.30am to 5pm
Saturday: 10am to 4pm
Walney Library – Central Drive, Barrow
Opening instances
Monday: 10am to five.30pm
Tuesday: 10am to five.30pm
Wednesday: 10am to five.30pm
Friday: 10am to 5pm
Saturday: 10am to 1pm
Ulverston Library – The Coro, County Square, Ulverston
Opening instances
Monday: 9am to 5pm
Tuesday: 9am to 5pm
Wednesday: 9am to 1pm
Thursday: 9am to 6pm
Friday: 9am to 5pm
Saturday: 9.30am to 1pm
Askam Library – Lord Street, Askam-in-Furness
Opening instances
Monday: 3pm to 5pm
Tuesday: 10am to 1pm
Thursday: 2pm to 5pm
Friday: 2pm to 5pm
Millom Library – Salthouse Road, Millom
Opening instances
Monday to Friday: 9am to 5pm
Saturday: 9am to 12pm
Sunday: Closed
Ambleside Library – Kelsick Road, Ambleside
Opening instances
Monday: 10am to 5pm
Tuesday: 1pm to 6pm
Wednesday: 10am to 5pm
Friday: 10am to 5pm
Saturday: 10am to 1pm
Grange Library – Grange Fell Road, Grange over Sands
Opening instances
Monday to Friday: 10am to 5pm
Saturday: 10am to 1pm
Sunday: Closed
Windermere Library – Ellerthwaite Road, Windermere
Opening instances
Monday: 9.30am to 1pm
Tuesday: 9.30am to 5pm
Thursday: 9.30am to 5pm
Friday: 9.30am to 5pm
Saturday: 10am to 1pm