A reading corner is a shelf built to fit the room, between three and five hundred books chosen for the ages in that school, a mat, and a light. It costs less than people expect and the books are the smaller half of it.
A school reaches the list by asking. A teacher writes to us, we go and look at the room, and the school tells us what ages need it most. We have never put a corner into a school that did not ask for one, and we have twice declined to, because a corner in a room nobody will use is a shelf and a photograph.
Where it stands: seven schools have a corner, the committee has agreed twelve as the target, and two of the remaining five are waiting on the cargo boat rather than on money. That figure is updated by hand at the committee meeting and the date it was last confirmed is printed beside it on the campaigns page. It is not a live counter and we will not pretend it is one.
What we cannot promise any school is a date. Freight to some of these islands runs when it runs, and a corner that was agreed in March has arrived in July more than once.