Our festival and programme of year-round events for local children and families across Kent can only happen with the support of incredible local and national businesses, organisations and institutions. As a rapidly growing festival with big plans for improving literacy across Kent, each year we need to fundraise 90% of our festival running costs, and your support enables us to provide free events to local schools, as well as keeping our festival weekend in July as low cost and accessible as possible to attendees, meaning as many children as possible are able to attend and experience the transformational power of stories. 

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By supporting Canterbury Children's Literature Festival, you are helping us to inspire children, and engage them with stories and the joys of reading, helping them to dream bigger and quite literally changing lives and future prospects.