Celebrate Volunteers Week 2025
This National Volunteers Week, inspire others to become reading volunteers and change children’s stories.
You can change a child’s story
As a valued part of our volunteer community, you’re helping children discover the joy of reading and unlock their full potential. This Volunteers Week, we want to celebrate you and everything you make possible. We want to shine a light on the incredible ways you impact children – and inspire even more people to get involved.
How does it work?
We’re so grateful you took the time to share how you’d like to help spread the word during Volunteers’ Week (2 – 8 June). Your support is what makes Bookmark’s mission possible – and now, together, we can amplify the power of reading volunteers like you.
We’ve put together everything you need to take part in a way that works for you. Whether you want to post on social media, hand out posters in your local community, host a Bookmark Brunch, or write to your local paper – these tools are here to help.
Share social posts about the impact of being a volunteer
Write a caption sharing more about your volunteering experience, or use one of our ready-made messages.
Hand out flyers/posters in your local community
Download and share these materials online or in person. For example, you could: attach them to an email for friends, family, or colleagues, print and post them on a community notice board or hand them out at places like a church group or local library.
Host a Bookmark Brunch
Inspire more people to become reading volunteers by hosting a Bookmark Brunch. It is a wonderful chance to catch up with your family, friends, colleagues and local community whilst sharing the importance of children’s literacy and how being a reading volunteer works.
Get in touch to order your pack of goodies.
Download an email signature
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Email signature
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Add the image to your email signature by going to your email settings, selecting “Signature,” and pasting it into the signature editor. Then highlight it and insert a hyperlink to our campaign page.
Reach out to local media
Use our Letter to Editor template to reach out to local media, calling for more people to sign up to volunteer.
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Letter to editor
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Share our Facebook Live event: 6 June 12noon (BST)
Have you got friends, family or colleagues that are interested in volunteering? Invite them to our Facebook Live event – where viewers will get meet one of our reading volunteers and hear what it’s really like to support a child in their reading journey.
Send them this invite link so they can RSVP.
