Charity of the year

29th February 20241st March 2024

A Day in the Life: Alison Tweed, Chief Executive of Book Aid International

Welcome to our ‘A Day in the Life’ blog series, where we’ll be interviewing members of the LBF team, industry professionals, and special guests attending our next LBF event. Our ... Read more

13th February 20239th November 2023

Street Child Named LBF Charity of the Year 2023

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One of the world’s fastest-growing children’s charities, delivering education & mental health provisions globally, to be celebrated at the fair Olympia London | 18-20 April 2023 London, Monday 13 February ... Read more

22nd September 202222nd September 2022

The London Book Fair Opens Submissions for Charity of the Year 2023

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London, 22 September 2022. The London Book Fair has today announced that submissions are now open for its Charity of the Year initiative. Non-profit organisations related to books, literacy, and ... Read more

30th March 20221st April 2022

The London Book Fair Reveals Full 2022 Author Line-Up

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19th January 202226th March 2022

The Centre for Literacy in Primary Education Named LBF Charity of the Year 2022

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Charity bringing books and creative literacy learning to millions of children, and thousands of teachers and schools, to be celebrated at the Fair London, 19 January 2022. The Centre for ... Read more

5th February 20215th February 2021

Charity of the Year: 5 Minute Interview with Royal Voluntary Service

Blogs, Interviews

Every year The London Book Fair has supported a book-related charity. With Royal Voluntary Service named our 2021 Charity of the Year, we thought we’d speak to Anna Foley, the ... Read more

31st January 201920th October 2020

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

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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 ... Read more

19th October 201819th October 2020

5 Minute Interview with Amina Marix Evans

Blogs, Interviews

Amina Marix Evans has worked across a broad range of book-related roles, within libraries, bookshops and publishing companies and freelance as an agent, translator and editor. In 2001, she set ... Read more

2nd October 201820th October 2020

The London Book Fair opens submissions for Charity of the Year 2019

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The London Book Fair has announced that its popular Charity of the Year initiative is now open for submissions. It welcomes applications from the book and book-related, reading and creatively-focused ... Read more

22nd August 201819th October 2020

5 Minute Interview with Cristina Peligra

Blogs, Interviews

Cristina Peligra is Senior Library Assistant at The Kittiwake Trust’s Multilingual Library in Newcastle upon Tyne. Originally from Italy, where she graduated in Dutch and German languages and literatures, she ... Read more