Community Days: Celebrating a Year of Outreach at Hachette UK

At Hachette UK, we’re proud to offer our colleagues two ‘Community Days’ each year to allow our teams to support outreach activities close to their heart.

As we start 2025, we wanted to take a moment to celebrate the incredible ways our colleagues have made the most of them throughout the year.

From taking on an Ultra Challenge in aid of the National Literacy Trust, beach cleaning as a team, hosting a stall at the Black British Book Festival and working in food banks and local independent bookshops, to organised bake sales, charity walks, and outreach in schools, our colleagues have certainly been busy!

It’s been great to see the team working with our key charity partners, Book Aid International, to pick and ship books worldwide to give those who lack access to books the opportunity to read for pleasure, study and lifelong learning. Every week, for 30 minutes, 60 of our colleagues have also been providing reading support to primary school children all over the country to help transform each child’s reading confidence and ability through our Chapter One UK partnership.

The work our team does makes such a difference in our commitment to Changing The Story, and we’re very proud of all they’ve achieved - we can’t wait to see what the team gets up to in 2025!

About Hachette UK:

Our mission at Hachette UK is to make it easy for everyone to discover new worlds of ideas, learning, entertainment and opportunity. We are one of the UK’s largest publishing groups, with 12 autonomous divisions and over 50 imprints with a rich and diverse history. We are the market leader in e-books and publish a range of bestsellers in audio format, the fastest-growing part of our business.

We publish thousands of new books across the group every year and our authors include Michael Connelly, Alice Oseman, John Grisham, Val McDermid, Stephen King, Stieg Larsson, Nelson Mandela, Stephenie Meyer, Ian Rankin, J.K. Rowling and Malala Yousafzai. Our award- winning adult publishing divisions are Little, Brown, Orion, John Murray Press, Dialogue Books, Hodder & Stoughton, Headline, Quercus, Bookouture and Octopus. Hachette Children’s Group publishes a diverse range of books for children of all ages and Hodder Education is a market leader in resources for both primary and secondary schools. In 2022, we welcomed Paperblanks, the second-largest premium stationery brand in the world, to our group.

We have offices around the UK, including our headquarters in London and the Hely Hutchinson Centre (HHC) for distribution in Didcot. We have subsidiaries in several other regions, including Australia, India, Ireland, Jamaica and New Zealand.

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