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Meet Reader Leader, Heather: ‘It sets me up to get going and enthusiastic for the week!’
The UK’s largest Shared Reading charity is celebrating its amazing team of volunteers throughout June inspired by Volunteers’ Week 2025, Monday…
Meet Reading Heroes volunteer Fiona: ‘It’s been a lovely experience to read with him every week – an absolute joy! He’s just brilliant’
Fiona Hall works at Shakespeare North Playhouse in Prescot and volunteers with national Liverpool-based charity The Reader, as part of…
Meet Reader Leader at Liverpool Women’s Centre, Irene ‘A ‘haven’ from the other stresses and strains in their lives’ ‘
The UK’s largest Shared Reading charity is celebrating its amazing team of volunteers throughout June inspired by Volunteers’ Week 2025, Monday…
Meet Calderstones Receptionist Volunteer, Catherine
The UK’s largest Shared Reading charity is celebrating its amazing team of volunteers throughout June inspired by Volunteers’ Week 2025, Monday…
Meet Bookshop Volunteer, Nick: ‘Volunteering helps give your structure to your day’
The UK’s largest Shared Reading charity is celebrating its amazing team of volunteers throughout June inspired by Volunteers’ Week 2025, Monday…
Meet Calderstones Volunteer, Beryl: ‘It has been a life changing experience for me’
The UK’s largest Shared Reading charity is celebrating its amazing team of volunteers throughout June inspired by Volunteers’ Week 2025, Monday…
Meet Heritage Volunteer, Jim: ‘One of the most worthwhile parts of my role is taking primary school trips on a Stone Age Walk’
The UK’s largest Shared Reading charity is celebrating its amazing team of volunteers throughout June inspired by Volunteers’ Week 2025, Monday…
Meet Reading Heroes Volunteer, Jo: ‘I’ve worked with care experienced children in the past. To have the opportunity to help one child in a small way is a real privilege’
The UK’s largest Shared Reading charity is celebrating its amazing team of volunteers throughout June inspired by Volunteers’ Week 2025, Monday…
Storybarn Book of the Month: Saving the Butterfly
This month, as part of Refugee Week (16-22 June), we've been taking a look back at one of our favourites…
Shared Reading in Wirral Libraries: ‘As a kid people read stories to you but as an adult you lose that – and it’s a fantastic thing to do!’
Two Strategic Librarians for Wirral Libraries, Kathleen McKean and Diane Mitchell have been working in partnership with the UK’s largest…
Meet our Bookshop Volunteer, Barbara: ‘My volunteer experience has become an added dimension in my life.’
The UK’s largest Shared Reading charity celebrates its amazing team of volunteers this month inspired by Volunteers’ Week 2025, Monday…
Meet Reader Leader Dorothy: ‘The most wonderful thing about being a Reader Leader is the people who I read with’
The UK’s largest Shared Reading charity is celebrating its amazing team of volunteers throughout June inspired by Volunteers’ Week 2025,…
