They allow travel to unknown realms, which is the one thing you can’t “Once you can read you have power: ditto for disadvantaged children. “All prison-based literacy campaigns are good,” insists Lady Antonia, who gives great credit to the work of Camilla, the new Queen Consort, in this area. Being unable to read makes it less likely that they will get into work and more likely that they will reoffend. Meanwhile, the most recent data published by the Ministry of Justice show 57 percent of adult prisoners taking initial assessments had literacy levels below those expected of an 11-year-old. Research from the National Literacy Trust has revealed that children who don’t own a book of their own are nearly four times more likely to read below the average expected level for their age. Antonia continues: “I discovered the charity is run entirely by Victoria and a small team, and with very low overheads.” Victoria set up the charity in tribute to her late husband, the playwright and diarist Simon Gray, who was Harold Pinter’s best friend. This is at the heart of everything we do,” says executive director Victoria Gray. “We work in prisons, schools and with disadvantaged young people throughout the UK.
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