Oscar’s Book Prize Ltd is a private company limited by guarantee. The board is made up of James Ashton (chairman), Viveka Alvestrand, D-J Collins, Louise Johns-Shepherd, Simon Pitts, Sarah Sands and Ed Vaizey.
Together they are responsible for the overall management and direction of the prize and the sponsorship arrangements.
The registered address is: Lower Ground Floor, 111 Charterhouse Street, London EC1M 6AW.
Oscar’s Book Prize is supported by Amazon and the Evening Standard, and is also proud to work closely with the Centre for Literacy in Primary Education and Read for Good. HRH Princess Beatrice is a patron of the prize. You can find out more about our supporters below.
Our Supporters
Amazon’s support of Oscar’s Book Prize forms part of Amazon in the Community, the company’s programme which supports communities across the UK, with a focus on the areas where Amazon operates. The ambition is to help children and young people succeed in today’s digital society by creating a positive learning environment, developing essential skills in literacy and science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) and empowering them to find and develop their career.
One of the key strands of the programme is helping children get the skills they need to excel in the digital world, including literacy, maths and technology. This includes partnering with Beanstalk to improve literacy in schools by funding reading helpers who support children who need extra help with their reading. We also donate Kindle devices and books through the Kindle Reading Fund to the schools in local areas. By supporting Oscar’s Book Prize Amazon is further encouraging children to read and enjoy books.
The London Evening Standard is the only quality free daily newspaper in the UK. An iconic London brand, the Standard’s paper, website and apps keep the capital up-to-date on the latest news, business, sport, features and entertainment. Edited by George Osborne, the Evening Standard is famous for its campaigning to improve life in the capital. Campaigns have included the Dispossessed Campaign, which raised over £14 million to tackle poverty and inequality and Get London Reading, a campaign to raise literacy levels for children in the capital.
Our Educational Partner
We’re incredibly proud to have The Centre for Literacy in Primary Education as our educational partner. Each year CLPE supplies fantastic teaching notes for each shortlisted title, which you can find here. These notes also accompany the books sent out to primary schools and nurseries as part of our annual competition to win a set of the shortlist. CLPE is an independent charity dedicated to raising the literacy achievement of children by putting quality literature at the heart of all learning. They provide high quality CPD and teaching resources for primary schools as well as research to support schools with developing their literacy curriculum. To find out even more about CLPE in their own words, please read our interview with them.
Our Charity Partner
We’re delighted to have worked with the wonderful charity Read for Good for the past seven years. Read for Good provides the magic of new books and professional storytellers to children in hospitals nationwide, and as part of this distributes all of the wonderful books submitted but not selected for the prize’s shortlist to 30 children's hospitals, from Edinburgh to Truro. You can read more about the inspirational and vital work they do, and read our interview with RfG’s brilliant Joanna Jeffery, here.
Our Patron
HRH Princess Beatrice became the Royal Patron of Oscar’s Book Prize in March 2017 after helping to judge the prize the previous year.
The Princess has written publicly about her struggles with dyslexia as a child, and how the support of her parents and the magic of stories helped her fall in love with reading.
On World Book Day in 2017 she shared her reading memories in an article for the Evening Standard. Read the article in full here
