Project: Middlesbrough Literacy Hub
Purpose: To improve literacy levels
Funding: Includes £100,000 from the Booker Prize Foundation over two years plus funding from Middlesbrough Council
Background: With high levels of deprivation and low levels of literacy, Middlesbrough was a natural starting point for the National Literacy Trust's literacy hub programme. Many young children in the area start school with poor literacy and language skills and in 2012 just 47 per cent of pupils left school with five GCSEs at grades A* to C, including English and Maths, well below the national average of 58.6 per cent. The aim of the hub was to bring local partners together in a concerted effort to address poor literacy levels.
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