Invitation Organisations to host MaxLiteracy Awards

The Max Reinhardt Charitable Trust, Engage, the National Association for Gallery Education and the National Association of Writers in Education (NAWE), are delighted to announce the Max Literacy Awards 2025-26.

Max Literacy is a unique opportunity for collaborative and interdisciplinary learning between creative writers in education, visual arts engagement specialists and teachers/educators, to develop innovative and creative practices that nurture creative literacy with young people. To support a greater understanding of, and visibility for, visual arts and writing practices with children and young people, the 2025-26 Awards will support applications from across the United Kingdom, including those which explore art-inspired literacy and creative writing in English and other languages and dialects used within the United Kingdom.

Projects with art-inspired literacy and creative writing in any language are eligible, however for this iteration of the Awards we are particularly interested in proposals which creatively explore Welsh, Scottish Gaelic or Irish Gaelic.

Visual arts organisations in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, including galleries and art museums, are invited to submit proposals to host Max Literacy in 2025-26 supported by the Max Reinhardt Charitable Trust, which will grant four organisations an Award of £7,000 to support a dedicated programme of art-based writing with young people in learning settings.