by holdthefrontpage staff
The Nottingham Evening Post is running a campaign to improve literacy and get people reading together.
Its aim of Let’s Read is to show people of all reading abilities and from different backgrounds that reading can be fun - and can make a profound difference to their lives.
Evidence has shown that reading and writing skills in Nottingham are not as good as they should be, and that poor levels of these skills are related to social deprivation.
The Post campaign will encourage parents and carers, people with babies and young children through to teenagers, as well as those with emerging literacy and adult readers.
The paper and its website are both carrying in-depth features to show how literacy is crucial to individuals and the city as a whole.
It has teamed up with Nottingham City Library and Information Services to increase library membership.
The Post campaign has set targets to:
Boost active library membership from 24.1 per cent to 26 per cent of the city's population - about 5,000 more people.
Increase annual visitor numbers to libraries by nine per cent to 1.4m.