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Free Word event to celebrate Challenge
The Reading Agency hosted an event to celebrate the Six Book Challenge at its new home in the Free Word centre on Thursday 24 September. Participants who have completed the programme were joined by an invited audience of adult literacy and library professionals, authors, publishers and other supporters of the scheme. Author and patron Mike Gayle gave a short presentation about his involvement with the scheme and Mary Jervis talked about her sense of achievement at having completed the Six Book Challenge last year.
"Our stubborn national skills problems show we need new ways to tackle literacy issues," says Miranda McKearney, Director of The Reading Agency. "We launched the Six Book Challenge in 2008, and I wish we'd started it years ago! It's a deceptively simple, motivational scheme that has a tremendous impact on people's lives. We're urging libraries, adult learning providers and workplaces to the Challenge to mark the Festival of Learning in October."
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