Oct 2024 | The draw has now closed and our prize winners have been contacted. We are delighted to announce that, with your help, Slightly Foxed raised a whopping £13,250 for BookTrust and would like to send our renewed thanks to all those who entered.

From BookTrust: We’re absolutely thrilled with the outcome of the prize draw and so grateful to the Slightly Foxed team and their readership who provided prizes and bought tickets. The money raised will go towards our work with early years families who might not otherwise be experiencing the magic and life-long benefits of reading together. Your donation will allow us to provide book packs alongside targeted reading support to over 5,000 families – thank you again for your amazing contribution!
BookTrust Director of Children’s Books, Lizzie Catford.
BookTrust | Getting Children Reading

A Charity Prize Draw for BookTrust | 12 July - 16 Sept 2024

This year (2024) the well-loved literary magazine Slightly Foxed is celebrating twenty years in print. When the magazine turned ten in 2014, we celebrated by raising over £5,500 for Great Ormond Street Hospital School with the proceeds from the sales of a little book of famous people’s drawings of foxes.

And now, here we are, hoping to mark our twentieth birthday year by raising up to £20,000 for another good bookish cause: the brilliant BookTrust – the national charity dedicated to getting children reading. Each year BookTrust reaches millions of children with books, resources and support for families, to get every child reading regularly and by choice.

THE PRIZES

There are twenty covetable prizes from Slightly Foxed, our friends and sponsors worth from £100-£1500 on offer. From a four-night luxury reading retreat in Cornwall, a full set of Slightly Foxed issues 1-80, a set of 28 Slightly Foxed Editions, boxed sets of books, a one-off original ‘fox’ by artist Jackie Morris, a two-night stay in a converted railway carriage so beautiful that it’s been featured by World of Interiors, a gardening masterclass in Wales, and many others besides, there’s sure to be something to tempt booklovers all around the world to enter.

Tickets are available from 12 July to 16 September 2024 • The Prize Draw will be held on 17 September 2024 • Tickets £5 online • Please see the ticket page for full T&Cs

From BookTrust

We’re incredibly grateful to Slightly Foxed and their readership for supporting our cause and helping us change lives through reading. We know that reading for pleasure can be both magical and transformative for the lives of children and is something that every child in the UK should experience, no matter their background. Thank you Slightly Foxed!
Diana Gerald MBE, CEO of BookTrust
BookTrust | Getting Children Reading

About BookTrust

BookTrust is the UK’s largest reading charity and they reach millions of children every year with books, resources and support to get every child reading, regularly and by choice.

They are national in scale and operate in every region in England, Northern Ireland and Wales. They work through every local authority, via children’s centres, schools, libraries and health professionals, to reach the families who need them most.

From running the Children’s Laureate to giving out books to families and schools, running exciting reading campaigns or celebrating the very best children’s books with their prizes, everything they do at BookTrust aims to inspire children – from babies to teenagers – to get started on their reading journeys.

From the Slightly Foxed Editors

As anyone for whom reading is not just a pleasure but an essential part of life will know, learning to decode words on a page is very different from becoming a reader. Statistics may show that increasing numbers of our children have learned to read but they do not tell us how many of them will find pleasure in reading for the rest of their lives. This is where the wonderful charity BookTrust comes in and why we, as a magazine dedicated to the joys of reading, are delighted to be linking up with them in our 20th anniversary year.
Gail Pirkis MBE & Hazel Wood MBE
I've dedicated my life to children's books because I think they help create the apparatus of happiness within us. No one knows what the future has in store for our children – but the one thing we do know is that they will need to know how to be happy and that the life-changing benefits of reading need to be taken seriously.
Frank Cottrell-Boyce, Waterstones Children’s Laureate 2024/2025
BookTrust | Getting Children Reading

A Charity Prize Draw for BookTrust


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