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Letterbox Club Impact Report 2025

Letterbox Club is a BookTrust programme, running for over 20 years, that posts monthly parcels of books and learning materials to children from low-income or vulnerable family backgrounds across the UK. BookTrust is the UK's largest children's reading charity. Source: BookTrust Letterbox Club Impact Report 2025 PDF, retrieved Sept 2026.

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Letterbox Club sends children from low-income or vulnerable family backgrounds, enrolled via local authorities, schools and other settings, a monthly parcel of books, maths games, stationery and other materials over a six-month cycle, with bilingual Welsh versions available; maths games developed with Professor Rose Griffiths of the University of Leicester; and a 2025-26 pilot of Letterbox Club specifically for children with a social worker

Key Metrics

Key Metric 1 Reached over 10,500 children across 65% of local authority areas in England, Wales and Northern Ireland
Key Metric 2 95% of children like or love Letterbox Club; 90% like or love the books in their parcels
Key Metric 3 77% of children report reading more after receiving Letterbox Club parcels

Key Outcomes

  • 70% of children report reading more independently and 52% report reading more with an adult because of Letterbox Club
  • Letterbox Club is designed to foster feelings of agency, value and happiness, supporting children's social and emotional wellbeing alongside their reading habits
  • 97% of children like or love the stationery in their parcels, and the maths games help build children's confidence and engagement with maths at school

Geography

UK-Wide

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