Penguin Random House reports progress towards Creative Responsibility goals

Penguin Random House UK has published its second Creative Responsibility report, detailing progress towards our 2020 goals across four focus areas of Reading, Community, Inclusion and Sustainability. They launched our Creative Responsibility Manifesto in 2016, setting out a mission to help close the creativity gap – defined as the gap that exists because not everyone in society has an equal opportunity to meet their creative potential. The report is presented as a visual scrolling web page and features individual people as case studies to bring the impact of the programme’s…

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Penguin Random House announces two-year partnership with National Literacy Trust to tackle urgent social mobility issues

Penguin Random House UK has announced a two-year partnership with the National Literacy Trust, an independent charity dedicated to transforming lives through literacy. This partnership underscores Penguin Random House’s commitment to improving social mobility in the UK, in support of our wider mission to help close the creativity gap. Literacy continues to be one of the major and most urgent barriers facing social mobility in the UK. Research from the National Literacy Trust currently shows that: One in six adults in England and Northern Ireland currently lack the literacy skills…

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