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The Big Give Christmas Challenge – Helping Isolated Older People
Bring Shared Reading to a new community Last December, The Reader launched a three-day fundraising campaign as part of The Big Give’s Christmas Challenge. Supported…
Help isolated older people in your community
Shared Reading brings a voice to the people who need it most A national charity based in Liverpool, has today invited…
Around the World in 80 Days with Off the Ground Theatre
Around the world in 80 days with off the ground theatre Off The Ground Theatre bring their adaptation of Jules Verne's Around the…
The Reader feature in APPG Arts, Health & Wellbeing report
"The time has come to recognise the powerful contribution the arts can make to our health and wellbeing." So reads…
The Reader to receive Arts Council funding as National Portfolio Organisation
Earlier today The Reader was announced as one of 183 new organisations to receive National Portfolio funding from Arts Council…
Jane’s Blog: Later life, running and reading
A look back at a piece from our founder and director Jane Davis from earlier this year. We were delighted…
The Reader to present at 2017 ISPS International Psychosis Conference
The Reader to bring Shared Reading to delegates at The International Society for Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychosis with conference appearance and newly…
The Short Story Prize 2017: Could you recreate a classic fairy tale?
Our friends at National Literacy Trust have teamed up with Bloomsbury Publishing (J.K. Rowling, Neil Gaiman, Louis Sachar) to search for…
Inspiring Primary School leavers to keep reading for pleasure
National Literacy Trust, Walker Books and Facebook team up with author Anthony Horowitz to inspire reading for pleasure among children…
Technical Difficulties
“Hard is trying to rebuild yourself, piece by piece, with no instruction book, and no clue as to where all…
Reading Groups, Communities & Libraries – An exploratory study
Published last month, the study explores the important role reading groups, such as Shared Reading, play in library and community…
Volunteers’ Week: John’s Reader Story
The second in our series of Reader Stories for Volunteers' Week comes from John who first found Shared Reading while recovering…
