The Auckland Writers Festival’s Hōtaka Kura programme was evaluated to understand its impact on literacy, creativity, and student wellbeing. With thousands of tamariki and rangatahi attending each year, the findings show how storytelling can inspire, connect, and transform.

With 100 bookshelves delivered to ECE centres in 2024, the Little Libraries project is lifting the status of reading for tamariki and whānau. This evaluation shows more reading, more engagement, and more joy - one book at a time.

Point and Associates evaluated the Writers in Schools programme drawing on feedback from students, authors and illustrators and school staff including teachers, librarians and principals.

The Caring for children and tamariki with family and whānau care packs programme was informed by and followed on from the Storytime Foundation Lockdown care packs projects. These evaluations explain the underpinning evidence and the strategies used with the care pack projects, and provide a window into the perspectives of whānau, children, probation officers and police.

In this report, Alex Woodley reports on how child-centric prison visiting has deepened whānau connections in a positive way, decreased stress for children, and created the conditions to improve educational and wellbeing outcomes.

Reading for pleasure is one of the most important indicators for the future success of a child, improving literacy, learning, health and wellbeing and social outcomes. This report helps to understand the conditions that could help grow communities of readers, how to make books and reading for pleasure more accessible and how reading projects might be sustained.

Auckland Council commissioned Point to find out how people use Auckland Central Library, what is most valued by users and their future needs and aspirations to inform a business case for redevelopment of the library.

This report provides some early evaluative findings of the prison extension to Storytime and the emergence of the Early Reading Together® Programme.