A social media toolkit for our corporate partners

This brief toolkit is to enable our corporate partners to quickly and easily share their support for our Online Reading Volunteers Programme

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 partner, your organisation is helping reach children who need reading support the most, providing employees with meaningful volunteering opportunities, and demonstrating genuine social impact.

Ready to share your Chapter One partnership story? Below are some suggested social media posts for you to communicate your partnership with Chapter One on your own channels, plus posts your individual volunteers can share about their personal experiences. 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 slogan is It All Starts With Literacy.

📖 One Million Stories by 2030

Since 2018, Chapter One's volunteers have shared 433,500 stories with children who need extra reading support. One Million Stories by 2030 is our commitment to reach one million stories shared between our volunteers and children - a cumulative count that tracks, in real time, the collective impact of every session delivered since we began. Every 30-minute session generates around two stories. Add that up across every volunteer, every corporate partner, and every child, and the numbers begin to tell their own story.

We would love to help support you in tracking and celebrating your organisation’s contribution.

You can find out more about the campaign here, and resources with details about the campaign and ways you can get involved here.

📷 Chapter One logos and photography

A selection of images and our logos are available here in this Dropbox folder. If you require any other images, please email Isabel Davies, our Social Media and Communications Officer, at isabel.davies@chapterone.org.

Pupil Permissions and Photographs

We love to see pictures of your volunteers and pupil readers at Meet and Greets and End-of-Year Reading Celebrations!

To keep our pupils safe, please follow these social media guidelines:

  • Do not use pupils’ names in posts or captions (please use “Chapter One pupil” or “student” instead)

  • Only share photos provided by Chapter One

✏️ Suggested LinkedIn posts for our corporate partners

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We're proud to announce that [Company Name] is supporting literacy charity @Chapter One UK as a corporate partner! 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! chapterone.org.uk

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Our @Chapter One UK online reading volunteers are making incredible progress! 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. 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 helped build momentum in these children's reading journeys and to help build a culture where reading is for everyone, everywhere. Together with Chapter One, we're making sure every child has the literacy skills needed to thrive.

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✏️ Suggested LinkedIn 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! 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. These weekly 30-minute sessions are honestly the highlight of my week!

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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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