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Caldies Big Dig Report is Published
After months of hard work we can annouce the dig report for the 2015 Caldies Big Dig is finally published.…

A Year in the Life of the Mansion
As the old saying sort of goes, time flies when you're hard at work regenerating a centuries-old Mansion House... Since…

“Amazing things happen”: The Reader’s AGM 2015
Where would you find over 100 guests eating warming bowls of stew followed by scoops of ice cream, taking an…

Knit and Natter join Lowton WI in blanket bonanza!
Today members of our Knit and Natter group presented Lowton Women's Institute with over 30 beautiful handmade blankets for Project Linus UK,…

Happy 5th birthday Social Business Trust!
Since 2010 Social Business Trust has worked with 13 social enterprises that they selected from over 800 reviewed, including The Reader, who…

The Story Box Breakfast – celebrating our Nurseries project
By Vish Amarasinghe, Communications Intern Today marks a week since The Reader celebrated its fruitful shared reading project across nurseries…

Lord Mayor calls on Liverpool to help bring Mansion House back to life
The people of Liverpool are being asked to volunteer their time, skills, and support to help The Reader transform Calderstones…

The Reader Ice Cream Parlour family fun day in Calderstones Park
This weekend, on October the 10th, we will be officially opening The Reader Ice Cream Parlour! With twenty-two flavours of Cheshire…

The latest from Calderstones Mansion – including the story of the Storybarn
There's been a lot going on at Calderstones Mansion in the last few months - with lots of help from…

Featured Poem: A Crazed Girl by William Butler Yeats
Here at The Reader's HQ, the weekend antics of Blur's Damon Albarn have got everyone talking. After refusing to end…

Day 10 – Ha-Ha, that’s funny!
The weather was on form this morning and so were the volunteers. We had our greatest number today which meant…

Day 9 – It never rains… it pours!
We had decided to spend Wednesday washing and sorting the hundreds of pieces of pottery we’d discovered during the previous…