E: 08/07 Win £1,000 / €1,000 for your school’s library (Nominate)

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National Book Tokens

url: https://www.nationalbooktokens.com/schools-prize

Nominate your school to #rebuildthelibrary with one of our five huge prizes. Plus, you could win a £100/€120 National Book Token for yourself!

As our friends at the charity Read for Good® will tell you, it's well established that reading for pleasure leads to significantly better outcomes for children – boosting academic performance, enhancing wellbeing, and fostering vital life skills like empathy.

But reading for pleasure is in decline. In 2025, just 1 in 3 children and young people aged 8 to 18 said they enjoy reading in their free time* – a sharp drop over the past two decades. At the same time, the work Read for Good® do in schools shows that many school libraries are underfunded, outdated, and filled with books that fail to engage today's readers. Children who rely most on school libraries are often those most likely to be missing out.

It's time to #rebuildthelibrary.

Our annual prize draw is back to give five schools across the UK and Ireland the chance to win £1,000/€1,000 in National Book Tokens and fill their shelves with new and inspiring books.

Nominate a school using the form, and if yours is one of the five winning entries, you'll also win a £100/€120 National Book Token to spend in your favourite bookshop. 

Plus: to celebrate the UK's National Year of Reading, we're giving away even more prizes so that more schools – and more children – have a chance to enhance their libraries and Go All In on reading.

Each week until 24th June, we'll pick a flash winner – selected at random from all entries – to receive a £100/€100 National Book Token for their school, and £25/€30 for themselves! Keep an eye on our emails, and follow us on Facebook, to see who wins each week.