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Meet The Reader: Staff Spotlight with Tavia Panton

Tavia Panton is our Children and Young Persons Project Lead at The Reader. She is also about to begin leading…

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Calderstones

Unwrapping a new Christmas season of events at Caldersones Park for 2024

Public booking is now open for The Reader’s Christmas 2024-5 season of delights.  Brunch with Mrs Claus, a wreath making…

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Reader Stories

Sammi: ‘My head is in a good place considering the pain I am in… I don’t think I’d be where I am today without this Shared Reading group’

Liverpool mum-of-three and carer Sammi, aged 50, has been attending the Shared Reading group at Broadgreen Hospital’s Chronic Pain Clinic…

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Literature

September’s Monthly Stories and Poems

September’s pick of Monthly Stories and Poems are connected by the theme mixed-up feelings and encounters, reminding us that very rarely…

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The Reader Bookshelf

The Storybarn Selects… From The Reader Bookshelf

The Reader Bookshelf 2024 is a carefully curated collection of literature for adults and children, exploring a different theme each year,…

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Children and Young People

Meet The Reader: Reading Heroes Coordinator, Rachel

Rachel Bourke is part of our Reading Heroes team which supports care experienced children aged 2-15 years to improve their…

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Literature

August’s Monthly Stories and Poems

Over the summer, The Reader is running our biggest Shared Reading Awareness campaign in years. See our new video, taking…

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Shared Reading

Shared Dreams: The Shared Reading Group for Parents Seeking Asylum

Two years ago a new Shared Reading group was set up for families seeking asylum whose children attend the council’s…

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Reader Stories

Shared Conversation: How Online Shared Reading is Alleviating Loneliness

Former charity manager Diana, who is housebound, has been participating in regular weekly online Shared Reading for the last three…

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Children and Young People

The Storybarn Selects… From The Reader Bookshelf

The Reader Bookshelf 2024 is here. A carefully curated collection of literature for adults and children, exploring a different theme each year,…

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Reader Stories

Shared Connection: The Shared Reading group bringing people together even in the most unlikely of places

Squeezed in between a Subway sandwich store and Chopz dog grooming salon in Liverpool’s Belle Vale Shopping Centre is the…

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Important Updates

A statement in light of recent attacks

The Reader currently runs Shared Reading Groups for asylum seekers and refugees and/or those who have English as an additional…

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