Beanstalk is a national charity that has been working with schools since 1973 to help raise literacy standards.

They focus on the child’s successes and build the child’s reading confidence using a range of general literacy resources. They equip adults and young people to 'do reading' better with children because the more children encounter confident, capable and inspiring support with their reading – at home, in school and in life – the more they are likely to get on and stay on the path to becoming a reader. 

Beanstalk believes that when a child becomes a reader, they get the very best chance in life and that time spent reading for pleasure has just as much (if not more!) importance as learning to decode.