All our actions to help you Make Someone's Day. Colour in a smiley face every time you've done an action.

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All our actions to help you Spend Time with Somone From a Different Generation. Colour in a smiley face every time you've done an action.

Age Exchange works with older people to improve their quality of life by valuing their reminiscences and giving them opportunities for wider appreciation.

Grandparents Plus is the national charity which champions the vital role of grandparents and the wider family in children's lives.

World Repair Kids unleashes the superhero in every kid. Their mission is to spark a by-kids-for-kids movement by providing the inspiration and tools for social change. But it's not just about kids. Everyone has a role in World repair: parents, neighbours, schools, businesses. It's a community effort and a family affair.

Give books away, get books you want.

Using the art of story telling to equip people with good public speaking skills.

Organisiation connecting the generations

Spend time with someone from a different generation

US based campaign to bring generations together

The website for grand parents.

Collect and distribute second hand books to schools in Africa, or sells them to raise money for the cause.

• Recommended books for people 13+ 
• Recommended books for people aged 9-12 
• Recommended books for people aged 5-8 
• Recommended books for people aged 0-6
• One in six people in the UK struggle with literacy. This means their literacy is below the level expected of an eleven year old
• Men and women with poor literacy are least likely to be in full-time employment at the age of thirty 
• 73% of parents and carers say their child often reads
• The number of children achieving the expected levels for reading at age eleven increased from 78% in 1999 to 86% in 2009
• The number of children achieving the expected levels for writing at age eleven increased from 54% to 67% in 2006 and remained the same (67%) in 2009
• There are 12.6 million people in the UK who struggle with their literacy. These people are less likely to be in employment, in good health, in good housing and satisfied with their lives as a result 
• Half of people without functional literacy are out of work, whereas three-quarters of those with good literacy skills have jobs.
• Low literacy skills cost the UK economy £1.73bn per year One in six people have serious problems in literacy or numeracy  
• Poor literacy skills and poor numeracy skills directly increase the risk of offending, independent of all other factors such as poverty 
• Having poor literacy skills means young people cannot fully access the challenges of the school curriculum and are therefore more likely to underachieve. They may have the potential to achieve but have fallen behind for a variety of reasons - poor health, disruptive education, problems at home, poor teaching or perhaps difficulties because English is not their first language. If they are not able to catch up through additional school interventions or have parents who don't know how to help, young people can become passive and disinterested in learning; they can play up at school, or they simply stay away. There is some evidence that those who truant or stay out of school are more at risk of getting into trouble and committing crimes. 
• Statistics show that in 2004, there were 649,000 16 to 24-year-olds in the UK who were economically inactive and not in full-time education, and a further 405,000 unemployed. There are also an estimated 10,000 15-year-olds who are 'missing' from school in England and are not accounted for anywhere in the system. Each year more than five per cent of 15-year-olds leave school without any qualifications. Of course, having poor literacy is not the only reason why young people stay away from school, misbehave and underachieve, but it can be a contributory factor
• Reading children's stories can be a bonding experience that gets us talking with our kids.
• It molds our kids into becoming readers, and raising a reader significantly increases our child's potential for academic success as well as lifelong success in general.
• It helps our children master language development.
• It builds listening skills, increases a child's attention span, and develops the ability to concentrate at length of which all are learned skills.
• It develops children's ability to express themselves more confidently, easily, and clearly in spoken AND written terms.
• It develops and fosters a child's natural curiosity and creativity.
• It expands our children's horizons, quells fears, exposes them to new situations, and teaches them appropriate behavior.
• Reading picture books develops a young child's appreciation for the arts through exposure to many different styles of art and illustrations.
• 300,000 children in the UK are being raised by a grandparent or family member
• The value of the grandparental childcare contribution has been calculated at £3.9billion.
• 1 million children lose touch with their grandparents as a result of separation or divorce.
• National family week is May 31st