Support Us

In the UK, reading rates are the lowest on record. We’re working hard to turn this story around.

Your support, whether through core funding or project funding, could change everything. We welcome donations from Trusts, Foundations, individuals and members of the general public.

Our current projects include:

  • Neuroscience research, helping to tell the story of why reading matters
  • Provision of free educational digital content and book recommendations, helping to encourage people to pick up a book
  • Events, including our literary festival, making literary events as fun, entertaining and unintimidating as possible, bringing people into a wider community of book lovers
  • Grassroots and outreach, delivering books into the hands of those who need them most

If you would like to discuss supporting individual projects please contact us by emailing info@thequeensreadingroom.co.uk

Your donation can help us to support as many people as possible to access the benefits, and the joy, of reading.

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Donor Spotlight

The Queen’s Reading Room is deeply honoured to be named as a recipient of a donation by the newly announced Julia Rausing Trust, launched in memory of the late philanthropist Julia Rausing.

Julia Rausing was one of Britain’s leading philanthropists, driving her philanthropy through The Julia and Hans Rausing Trust for ten years.

The Queen’s Reading Room wishes to express its heartfelt gratitude to Hans Rausing and to The Julia Rausing Trust for entrusting our charity with Julia’s legacy via this memorial donation.

With heartfelt thanks to our donors and supporters who make our work possible

Hawthornden Foundation

T S Eliot Foundation

The Unwin Charitable Trust

Bloomsbury Publishing

The Rothschild Foundation

Dukes Education

John R Murray Charitable Trust

The Julia and Hans Rausing Trust

The Julia Rausing Trust

And all of our individual and anonymous donors