Nicola Whitehouse

📚❤️ My September Reading Challenge for Teenage Cancer Trust ❤️📚

📚❤️ My September Reading Challenge for Teenage Cancer Trust ❤️📚

This September, I’m taking part in the Teenage Cancer Trust September Reading Challenge, committing to read for 30 minutes every day throughout the month — and I’d love your support!

Reading for pleasure is something I’m incredibly passionate about, particularly through my work with children. I love sharing books with the children I teach, talking about stories and authors, discussing characters and ideas, sharing my own opinions and recommendations, and helping children discover books that connect with their own interests, passions and favourite things.

I also strongly believe that children should have a voice in the reading choices we make. Some of my favourite book recommendations have come directly from children! I love listening to what they are reading, hearing about the stories they’ve enjoyed and allowing their enthusiasm to introduce me to books I might otherwise have missed. There is something really special about children helping to shape a love of reading in others. 📖

This challenge, however, is about much more than simply finding time to read. I’m taking on this challenge to help raise money for Teenage Cancer Trust, a charity that provides specialist support for young people aged 13–24 living with cancer.

For teenagers and young adults facing cancer, life can suddenly become very different. Teenage Cancer Trust helps make sure they don’t have to face that experience alone, providing specialist nursing care, support, information and spaces where young people can be themselves during an incredibly difficult time. ❤️

By taking part in the challenge, I hope to combine something I love — reading — with an opportunity to support a charity doing such important work for young people and their families.

I’ll be spending 30 minutes a day reading for the whole of September, and I’m hoping to discover some wonderful new books along the way — with plenty of recommendations and inspiration from the children I teach!

If you’re able to support my challenge, any donation, however big or small, would mean so much and will help Teenage Cancer Trust continue to provide vital support to young people affected by cancer.

Thank you for supporting me, encouraging my reading challenge and, most importantly, helping me raise money for such an incredible charity. Every page I read will be helping me work towards my fundraising goal. 📚❤️

30 minutes a day. A month of reading. A chance to discover new stories. And, most importantly, an opportunity to make a difference to young people living with cancer.

Thank you for being part of my challenge! ❤️