BAFTA Kids Roadshow with Place2Be announced as London Book Fair Charity of the Year

The London Book Fair (LBF) (12-14 March) has selected the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Kids Roadshow with Place2Be, as this year’s Charity of the Year. BAFTA Kids Roadshow is a programme of events and initiatives offering families across the UK access to workshops and masterclasses with BAFTA-winning talent. In partnership with children’s mental health charity Place2Be, the BAFTA Kids Roadshow takes the world of film, games and television directly into schools that benefit from Place2Be’s mental health support work. The Roadshow includes a ‘Behind The Scenes’…

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The London Book Fair Nominates the Kittiwake Trust as Charity of the Year 2018

The Kittiwake Trust – a charity that gives free books to society’s most marginalised groups – has been selected by The London Book Fair as its Charity of the Year for 2018. Founded in 2009, The Kittiwake Trust donates books and other items to not-for-profit organisations and schools. In 2017, the Trust donated 14,222 books, including 6,000 books to prisons, custody suites, and groups supporting former prisoners. Focussing on putting books in the hands of those that need them most, while preventing books from going to waste, in 2015 the…

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