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Reading For Our Region

Get involved in this bookish campaign, celebrating reading, storytelling and creativity – all whilst helping to increase awareness of our cause and help make life better for local children and young people with cancer.

We’re calling on booklovers and storytellers to help us share our new campaign…

Reading For Our Region aims to raise awareness of childhood cancer, and the families it affects across the North East and Cumbria, through a common love of books and storytelling.

As part of the campaign, we’re collaborating with local libraries, book shops, authors, and literary events across the region to distribute free bookmarks within the bookish community. By sharing useful bookmarks rather than charity leaflets, we’re helping to provide a more environmentally friendly way to help spread awareness of Children’s Cancer North and our charity’s work to help make life better for children and young people with cancer across the North East and Cumbria.

Each bookmark features a stylish artwork of illustrations that are meaningful to our cause, with a QR code link through which people can check out the Reading For Our Region campaign and other ways that they can get involved with our charity or make a donation, should they wish.

So grab your latest page turner and head to your local participating venue to pick up a bookmark today! Check out our interactive map below to find your nearest stockist…

Reading For Our Region Campaign logo

Click on the map to find out where our bookmarks are located

You can find our bookmarks in these venues on our interactive map! Make sure you snap a photo with yours and tag us on social media with the hashtag #CCNReads.

We are looking to collaborate with as many venues as possible from across the North East and Cumbria, so if you would like to get involved, please fill in the contact form linked below. By signing up, you’ll be requesting to receive a free bundle of bookmarks and a display stand, plus your venue will be added as a new stockist location our interactive map!

Would you like to support our campaign and be a stockist of our free charity bookmarks?

Fill in our contact form to sign up

This is only the first chapter!

Our hope is that the region’s love of books and storytelling will shine through so that we can build an even bigger community of local authors, organisations and libraries who are passionate about sharing our campaign and its impact.

Let’s work together to raise awareness of children and young people in the North East and Cumbria affected by cancer and bring the joy of reading, storytelling and imagination to more people!

Our activities…

We recently had the pleasure of joining independent authors and bookish crafters at Newcastle’s first Literary Escape Festival where we handed out our free bookmarks and sold some mystery books which were kindly donated by members of the public to support the Reading For Our Region campaign.

Expert wrapper, Aoife Forbes of Forbes Finishings, also donated her time and expertise to wrap an incredible number of mystery books for this event as well as delivering a tutorial to our corporate volunteers so they could also get involved. Her wrapping skills are not limited to books, either! So check out her website to find out more about her expert wrapping services and the team building workshops she delivers.

Thanks to the incredible enthusiasm surrounding our mystery book sale, we are now looking for more books donations!

Are you looking to clear out some of your pre-loved books and would like to donate them to a good cause? We are now accepting more book donations from the public. Whether you have children’s books, adult fiction or informative non-fiction, we’d love to take them off your hands so that we can sell them at upcoming events. Donations will be sold at upcoming events with all proceeds going towards making life better for children and young people with cancer in the North East and Cumbria, as well as funding the revolutionary research being conducted at Newcastle University to develop more targeted and kinder cancer treatments for young patients both here in our region and worldwide.

Children's Cancer North team at the Literary Escape Festival in Newcastle

How to get involved

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Deliver or post pre-loved books to our office: Children's Cancer North | Floor 6, Wolfson Childhood Cancer Research Centre | Herschel Building | Newcastle upon Tyne | NE1 7RU
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Contact us to arrange a book donation collection
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Get involved by helping us to wrap mystery books by emailing reading@childrenscancernorth.org.uk
Visit our contact page to find out more

Are you interested in collaborating with us as part of our campaign, or have an idea you'd like to share?

Get in touch with the team

What's on & where to find us

Host your own event!

Want to host your own literary themed fundraising event in support of Children's Cancer North? Whether you're part of a book club or just someone looking to host a creative fundraiser with a difference, we'd love to support your event plans and provide a stock of free bookmarks, charity resources and even some charity merchandise you can help to sell all to raise money and awareness for our cause.

Contact the team for support or resources

The Reading For Our Region story so far...

Head of Charity engaging school children in talk
Children's Cancer North Team holding Reading For Our Region Bookmarks
School children and CCN team holding bookmarks
Children's Cancer North bookmarks and children's books
Head of Charity engaging school children with hands up in talk at Seven Stories
Children's Cancer North Goodie bags for Seven Stories Event
School children holding Reading For Our Region bookmarks
Head of Charity engaging school children in Seven Stories event talk
Children's Cancer North team at the Literary Escape Festival in Newcastle
Children's Cancer North team joined authors and creators at the Literary Escape Festival in Newcastle
Head of Charity holding up Reading For Our Region bookmark
Big teddy with wrapped books for upcoming event
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