Communications Toolkit for our Platinum Partners

This toolkit outlines ideas on how you can communicate your partnership with Chapter One on your own channels

Celebrate our partnership on social media!

We love seeing our corporate partners' posts about your motivations for partnering with Chapter One and the special moments your volunteers experience. Every post helps raise awareness of the work we do together and could inspire other organisations to join the movement!

The government's National Year of Reading 2026 recognises that we're facing a literacy crisis and aims to "inspire thousands of community reading champions" and "build a culture where reading is for everyone, everywhere."

As a Chapter One Platinum Partner, you're ahead of the curve—your organisation is already helping reach children who need reading support the most, providing employees with meaningful volunteering opportunities, and demonstrating genuine social impact. We are very grateful to the commitment made by our Platinum Partners to our Online Reading Volunteers Programme.

Ready to share your Chapter One partnership story? Below are some suggested social media posts for celebrating your partnership with us, plus posts your individual volunteers can share about their personal experiences.

Below are some suggested social media posts for you to communicate your partnership with Chapter One on your own channels. Feel free to personalise these posts with your own company voice, add specific examples from your volunteers, include photos and videos, or tweak the language to match your brand tone.

🔗 Our social media channels

Please make sure you are following us!

Please do tag us in your posts to make it easier for us to share and amplify them. Chapter One's tagline is It All Starts With Literacy.

📷 Chapter One logos and photography

A selection of images and our logos are available here in this Dropbox folder, including a Chapter One Platinum Partner logo. If you require any other images or have any issues accessing, please email Isabel Davies, our Social Media and Communications Officer, at isabel.davies@chapterone.org.

✏️ Suggested LinkedIn posts for our Platinum Partners

[Insert company name] is proud to support literacy charity @Chapter One UK as a Platinum Partner this year. We are providing 100+ volunteers who are reading online each week with 5-8 year-old children facing disadvantage across the UK.

Did you know that the government has dedicated 2026 as the National Year of Reading? We're getting ahead of the curve - this academic year, [Company Name] colleagues will be spending 30 minutes a week reading online with children who need extra reading support. Research shows the more reading influencers a child has, the more likely they are to become keen independent readers. Time to make a difference together!

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Our @Chapter One UK online reading volunteers are making incredible progress! With 2026 being designated the National Year of Reading, there's no better time to be involved. We’re proud to be a Platinum Partner, providing 100+ volunteers who team ‘meet’ online with a child for 30 minutes a week, during the school day.

Our team tells us these 30-minute weekly sessions are the highlight of their week, and we're already seeing the difference they're making to children's reading confidence. Did you know that only 1 in 3 children aged 8-18 say they enjoy reading, the lowest in 20 years? We're proud our colleagues are tackling this challenge head-on. Does your company want to make a difference too? Get in touch with Chapter One about corporate partnerships!

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What an incredible year our @Chapter One UK volunteers have had! This year, colleagues have spent 30 minutes every week reading with a child online. The transformation they've witnessed in their pupils' reading confidence has been amazing. We're proud to have supported Chapter One as a Platinum Partner and helped build momentum in these children's reading journeys and to help build a culture where reading is for everyone, everywhere. Did you know that 2026 has been designated the National Year of Reading? Together with Chapter One, we're making sure every child has the literacy skills needed to thrive.

✏️ Suggested posts for our individual online reading volunteers

In addition to using your company social media channels to showcase our partnership, we would love you to encourage your employees who are volunteering for Chapter One to actively promote their involvement with the programme on their personal social media networks. They could post about the excitement of watching their student’s confidence soar, or reflect on how they themselves are benefiting from the experience. Many volunteers tell us that reading with Chapter One gives them 30 minutes when they can switch off from the pressures of the working day and enjoy a meaningful 1:1 human connection. You can find a full social media toolkit for volunteers here, as well as some suggested posts below.

If they are able to record short video testimonials or take selfies of themselves during a reading session then even better!

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I just signed up as an online reading volunteer with @Chapter One UK! Did you know that the government has dedicated 2026 as the National Year of Reading? I'm getting ahead of the curve by starting now - this academic year I’ll be spending 30 minutes a week reading online with a child who needs that extra support. Research shows the more reading influencers a child has, the more likely they are to become keen independent readers. Time to make a difference!

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Another brilliant @Chapter One UK reading session today! We explored a fantastic story and my pupil read with such enthusiasm. Did you know that 2026 has been designated the National Year of Reading? These weekly 30-minute sessions are honestly the highlight of my week!

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Did you know that the government has dedicated 2026 as the National Year of Reading? There's good reason - only 1 in 3 children aged 8-18 say they enjoy reading, the lowest in 20 years! Through @Chapter One UK, I'm getting a head start on tackling this as an online reading volunteer. Just 30 minutes a week can make a real difference! I’m very grateful to [Insert company name] for supporting Chapter One as a Platinum Partner this year.

🌟 Other ways to highlight our partnership

📹 Video testimonials

We are always looking for video testimonials from our volunteers to share on Chapter One's social media channels! This would involve a volunteer recording themselves on their mobile phone for around a minute or so, talking about their experience of being a volunteer. If you, as a Volunteer Coordinator, would like to record a video from a corporate partner perspective, explaining why you chose to partner with Chapter One, that would also be fantastic! Video testimonials are a powerful tool for us, particularly on social media, so if you or any of your volunteers are interested, please let us know.

Here’s an example of a great video by one of our Liberty Global volunteers.

✨ Going above and beyond

Want to go 'above and beyond' your partnership and enter into other forms of collaboration? This year, so far, there are plans for road safety campaigns, book drives, World Book Day story competitions, office visits and more! Get in touch with Anna Ansted, our Corporate Partnerships Manager at anna.ansted@chapterone.org if you would like to discuss a collaboration idea!

We’re always very happy to collaborate with our partners on press releases showcasing their commitment to Chapter One and the amazing support from their volunteers. Here are some examples from our partners Draeger and Sodexo Stop Hunger Foundation, who shared details of their partnerships with the media!

Questions?

Reach out to Isabel Davies, Social Media and Communications Officer at isabel.davies@chapterone.org

It all starts with literacy.

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