The Great Kiwi Bookathon is all about bringing the love of books to your kids and inspiring them to read. Children read the books they love during the month of June and raise money for children who are blind, deafblind or have low vision and their families, so they have a great start in life and can get on with living life.

Yes, you sure can! Just click here to register. Please enter your (parent or guardian) details first. When you get to the 'children' step of registration, simply hit the 'add' button to include your child's details. You can add up to 5 children under one email address to your family team.

Yes, you sure can! Simply click here to register as an adult – we love the idea of adult readers joining in the fun, too.

The Great Kiwi Bookathon is specially designed for children in school year 1 or 5 years old onwards, but the enjoyment of books is our top priority whilst raising money for families and children who are blind, deafblind, or have low vision.

For the first Great Kiwi Bookathon we had a limited supply of T-shirts and are unable to do size swapping. 

Raise $125 on your fundraising page and we'll post out your T-shirt to you!

Participants share the books they read, so have a look and get inspired by what others have read. And be an inspiration for others and share your books too.

You can read to your heart’s content and, no, there is no minimum (or maximum) amount of books you have to read! And by the way, you can read in as many ways as you want. You may have a physical book, read on an e-reader, or you may use audiobooks. You can get the books from the library, your school or talk to your friends and do a book exchange (please ask your parents first). We see books as comics, magazines, picture books, text books, novels. Anything you read end to end, log as a book!

“Reading, steady, go” starts on the 1 June 2023 with the launch of the Great Kiwi Bookathon. That is the day you can start logging your books! Get ready by choosing some of the books you are keen to read.
You can start reading earlier, but technically, the Great Kiwi Bookathon is to read as much as you can, throughout June.

Log into your personal Great Kiwi Bookathon account that was created when you registered. Here you can go to the My Books section to log the books read.

The Great Kiwi Bookathon is all about having fun, so that is why there is no fundraising minimum. We encourage you and your family to have a go and experience the joy of doing good and to raise what is doable for you. This could be $25 or $250.
Children who experience blindness, deaf blindness, or low vision and their families are grateful for you taking part in the Great Kiwi Bookathon. And remember, there are loads of awesome fundraising prizes and awards to be won!

For you to receive the badge, you will need to share your page via your dashboard on the fundraising page. Simply go to your fundraising dashboard here to share your page. Our system will then connect you directly with Facebook. However, unfortunately, we don't recognise it when you share the page directly from Facebook.

The easiest way to ask people to donate is to share on Facebook via the Donate button to collect donations for Great Kiwi Bookathon. Facebook is a great way to connect with your friends and family and for fundraising purposes, we recommend you use our website the Great Kiwi Bookathon. Only donations collected through the Great Kiwi Bookathon platform will show on your Funraisin page. We encourage you to share a link to your personal fundraising page instead of on social media to ask friends and family to donate.

It's easy to reset your password, click the 'login' button on the website and simply hit the 'forgot password?' link.

The Best Bookworm Club is for those individuals who raise $250 or more, they receive a special package and a special thank you!

You must have all of your donations in by the 7th of July 2023 to be able to get all the Best Bookworms Club goodies! Please note, The Top Shelf Club is now known as the Best Bookworms Club.

The Great Kiwi Bookathon Teams are set up in a way that encourages some fun and friendly competition between team mates. It’s also a way to give some grown-ups an easy way out of having to choose between which teammate to sponsor separately.

We’re all for teamwork, every teammate’s contribution is valuable, and every teammate gets to share the team’s success. However, there are some things that are hard to share, like badges 🤩

To encourage your grown-ups to give to your page individually, show them the exciting badges you can earn! 

Plus if you collect 7 out of the 10 available badges, you’ll go in the running to win a $100 Mighty Ape voucher!

And on current rates, all I’ll say is: that’s a lotta books.

Head over to your dashbaord and check out all the available badges you have left to earn and get planning on how can you make sure that you’re in the running to WIN!

Once your child raises $125 we will post out their t-shirt, we will be starting to post shirts around mid-May.

The welcome packs will be sent in May.
If you've registered multiple children, each child will get their own welcome pack. While packs will be sent at the same time, they might arrive separately.