About us

About Children’s Discovery Centre

In your darkest literary hour
When books are considered uncool,
Call the Children’s Discovery Centre and ask
For a writer to visit your school.
They’ll make the arrangements for you,
Find a writer whose words will enthral
So if literary lessons need a boost
Just give CDC a call.

- Brian Moses

For twenty years our charity has been working with schools and writers to engage children in the pleasure and power of reading and writing. We work now with over 59,000 children every year, organising residencies, workshops and events with children’s writers. Please click on the Writers in Schoolsto find out more.

We also organise a wide range of activities for children at our premises in Tooting Broadway. Click on the Local Activities to see what’s coming up.

If you’d like to speak to us in person, just call 020 8767 4551 and ask for Barbara or Peter, or email info@childrensdiscovery.org.uk.

The Children’s Discovery Centre has a new online magazine The magazine was developed initially over two weeks in the summer of 2007 as a Wandsworth Summer Uni project, run by the children’s author and illustrator Paul Geraghty, and children’s author Saviour Pirotta. Check out the children’s work online at: http://onlinemagazine.childrensdiscovery.org.uk