Summer Reading Challenge Case Studies

This section offers practical case studies which show how libraries work with volunteers and looked after children.

Volunteers

• Working with volunteers on the Summer Reading Challenge: The best insights from The Reading Agency's case studies (word, 107kb)
• Working with volunteers in Kent (word, 767kb) 
  By making the Summer Reading Challenge part of a package for Duke of Edinburgh award participants, Kent has built up a team of young reading mentors as part of its extensive countywide volunteering programme.

• Working with volunteers in Havering (word, 95kb)
  Havering Libraries use a volunteer year-round to organise the team who spend the summer helping at Summer Reading Challenge sessions

• Working with volunteers in Halton (word, 770kb)
  In the CSV Young Voices libraries, young volunteers run their own projects with library staff trained to support them. The Summer Reading Challenge was central to the first year of the programme.

• Working with volunteers in Staffordshire (word, 756kb)
  A first venture into using volunteers has encouraged one library authority to do more.

• Working with volunteers in Essex (word, 906kb)
  The benefits of building strong relationships with schools include a regular stream of volunteers following a community service programme.

Looked after children

• Working with looked after children in Norfolk (word, 97kb)
  For the past three years Norfolk have been working with the non-residential summer schemes which the Norfolk education service runs for looked after children.

• Working with looked after children in South Tyneside (word, 96.5kb)
  South Tyneside build the Summer Reading Challenge into their work with The PLACE (Project for Looked After Children’s Education).