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First Read supports family literacy and education in poor communities around the world.

It offers an innovative way of working directly with families to expand and improve early chilhood care and education. First Read also supports improvements in the literacy and other skills of the participating parents and carers, including their ongoing ability to support their children's learning.

The Global Campaign for Education is a coalition of child rights activists, teachers’ unions and development organisations from around the world, united in their determination to make the right to educationstee a reality. I chair the UK campaign's policy group and sit on the steering committee.

I'm a trustee of the Reading Agency. The Read’ing Agency's mission is to inspire more people to read more. Read works with public libraries, publishers, unions, businesses and broadcasters to support reading.

The Reading Agency's Big Book Share supports prisoners to choose a book and then make a recording of themselves reading it, which is then given to the prisoner’s children. Reading can help to keep the family bond strong and can help an imprisoned parent to be a positive role model to his or her children.

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Blogs

The art of getting personal
- Travelations
  
  Huey's reflections on things he's learnt.
- Wish Jar Journal
  
  Keri Smith, the author of 'Living Out Loud'.
- The bitter shack of resentment
  
  Author and activist Brooke Shelby Biggs' blog
- Mother Jones
  
  The online journal from the people that bring you the magazine of the same name.
- Penelope Dullaghan
  
  Penellope's illustrations and collaborative projects are terrific.
- The Daily (Maybe)
  
  Jim Jay's almost daily offerings on the issues of the day from a green perspective.
- Making Waves
  
  Greenpeace's global blog.
- Philobiblon
  
  Natalie Bennet's feminist book and theatre reviews, and offerings on politics, science and art.
- Paul Kingsnorth
  
  Voted the best Green Blogger on the net, Paul's blog offers up an eclectic mix of pointed, political posts.
- Laurie David
  
  Global warming activist who produced Al Gore's 'An Inconvenient Truth'.