On this page we will post news on activities that have taken place during the Great Reading Adventure in schools and colleges, libraries, arts groups, businesses, and the local community.

If you have organised an event as part of this project, please send us details along with any photos you might have taken and we will include a selection here.
Contact melanie@brunel200.com.



David Moger as Phileas Fogg and Graham Tuckwell as Passepartout travelled by rickshaw from Weston Super Mare library to the North Somerset museum and then on to the High Street, Weston Super Mare distributing copies of Around the World in Eighty Days.


Richard Durnford as Passepartout, Simon Cook as Phileas Fogg, Manjit Sylvester-Jhalli as Princess Aouda and Mike Rowland as Detective Fix.


All four actors travelled between Swindon and Bristol Temple Meads on launch day distributing copies of the book and reading passages to passengers. Photographed here with Josh Kility and Shannon Clements from Hannah More School in Bristol.


Children enjoying a Victorian fun day of storytelling, dressing up and circus skills at Dorset County Museum in a joint Great Reading Adventure Venture with Dorset libraries in February.


Follow the links below for official press releases.