Futures and Babies’ Best Start will be promoting literacy at the City Centre Mall tomorrow.

For about 16 years now, the group has marked Family Literacy Day with a wide range of literacy activities.

Program Coordinator Penny Brenton says literacy is important because it’s one of the main components of education:

"Our children will become the next generation of successors within our community. Encouraging literacy within our homes is as simple as reading a bedtime story with your children, playing a game together, encouraging family members to communicate either by leaving a note or as simple as a sending a text to each other".

In addition to stories and a used book giveaway the group has also partnered up with the NHRA to run a teddy bear clinic.

You and your family can come by from 1-2:30pm.