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Summer of Fun 2025

Sign up to the Reading Challenge!

We want you to read and tell us all about the books that you read this summer. Come along to any Idea Store or Library and pick up your Summer of Fun booklet, and join the challenge. You can pick up stickers and a prize along the way, and receive a certificate when you have finished. The reading challenge is fun, free and easy to take part in.

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Step 1: Join in

Visit any Idea Store or library in Tower Hamlets and register for free - just have proof of address.

When you join you'll get a Summer of Fun booklet to fill with stickers as you progress and log the books you have read.

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Step 2: Read books

The challenge is to read at least six books, two books at a time, over the summer holidays.

We've got THOUSANDS of books waiting to be borrowed! When you finish a book log it in your booklet.

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Step 3: Win prizes!

After each book you get a sticker in your booklet.

After four books you get a notebook and a sheet of stickers you can use to customise it.

When you have read six books you get a certificate that you can take back to school after the holidays.

Summer of Fun 2025

There are lots of free activities for children and young people across the borough this summer as part of the council’s Summer of Fun programme, including a whole host of things happening in Idea Stores.

Visit other Summer of Fun activities in the borough, for a chance to collect stamps in your Summer of Fun booklet and win a variety of amazing prizes.

For all Idea Store events

For all other Summer of Fun listings

Details of the Prize Draw are coming soon!

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