Deadline: 15-Sep-2025
The Max Literacy Award 2025 is now open for applications, providing an opportunity for innovative projects that strengthen the link between literature, creative learning, and literacy development.
The focus areas include developing innovative approaches to literacy through creative partnerships, supporting teachers and educators with new tools to enhance literacy learning, engaging children and young people in meaningful literacy experiences, and fostering collaborations between cultural organizations, writers, and schools to inspire creativity and reading development.
This programme offers support to cultural organizations and their partners in working with schools to design and deliver projects that enhance literacy learning through creative methods. Successful applicants will receive resources to implement projects that demonstrate innovative ways of linking literacy with creative practice, ensuring that children and young people benefit from engaging and impactful approaches to learning.
The value of the awards is £7,000 each, which will be granted to four successful applicants to cover creative writer fees, project costs, and materials. In cases of exceptional applications, the Max Literacy programme panel may consider offering an increased award, and applicants seeking match funding are also welcome.
The programme emphasizes collaboration, with applicants encouraged to work across sectors to design projects that can strengthen literacy education. Schools, writers, cultural organizations, and educators are expected to come together to pilot ideas, build evidence, and share outcomes that can influence future literacy development strategies.
Applications are open for projects that will run during 2025, and the programme aims to showcase examples that can inspire future models of literacy and creative learning in the United Kingdom.
For more information, visit Engage.