Inspiringyoung minds bygiving high quality free books tochildrenacross Somerset

During Covid, Chris was invited to join Let's Go Read, a book-subscription club started by two other dads. The idea was simple: post children a box each month with independent picture books, activities, and learning booklets. It expanded into after-school reading clubs run with paying schools.

Eighteen months later the funding ran out. The company wound up.

Chris bought the remaining stock, including several hundred copies of Superbat and I Really Need a Wee, and started sending them to local Somerset schools as part of Innatus Digital's B Corp giving.

The reason Let's Go Read didn't work became obvious in hindsight. Parents who could afford a subscription had already bought their children books. Parents who couldn't, certainly couldn't spare £20 a month. And schools didn't have the funding for after-school clubs either. The money was never going to come from the families or schools who needed it most.

So we started Story Seeds. Somerset only, to begin with, because it's better to do one county well than spread too thin. Innatus routes its charitable giving straight into it. The mission is simple: every child should own a book that actually speaks to them. Not just any book. One they'd choose for themselves.

Since then it's grown to include card and board games, audiobooks, and Yoto players. Everyone reads differently, and that matters.