First Story

This article is about the charity. For the album by Sayuri Sugawara, see First Story (album).

First Story is a literacy charity. It was founded in 2007 by Katie Waldegrave and the writer William Fiennes[1] to improve literacy and foster creativity[2] in young people through creative writing. The organisation works with "challenging" state schools.[3]

Activities

First Story supports and inspires creativity, literacy and confidence in UK secondary schools and their communities. They arrange and pay for acclaimed authors to run weekly creative-writing workshops for groups of up to twenty-one students attending ‘challenging’ secondary schools across the country. At the end of the year-long programme, First Story publishes a professional anthology of the students' work, and each school hosts a book launch event where the students read their work aloud to family, friends and teachers.

Writers

Executive team

Board of trustees

Advisory board

First Story in the press

External links

Notes

  1. ↑ Dodson, Sean, "826 Valencia: children's literacy inspired by pirates", The Guardian 21/08/08 from website 04/08/09.
  2. ↑ Humphreys, John, "Storytelling at school", BBC Radio 4 Today, 25/09/08, from website 04/08/09.
  3. ↑ Waldegrave, Katie, http://www.FirstStory.co.uk, January 2009.