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Featured Poem: Blue Remembered Hills by A.E. Housman
This week's Featured Poem comes from one of our groups within our Big Lottery funded Merseyside Volunteer Reader Scheme project,…
A ‘reawakening’ through reading – Jack’s Story
Our annual AGM is coming up next week, and we're looking forward to celebrating a year of achievements with some…
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…
Finding a way into reading: Alan’s Story
In the run-up to the publication of The Reader's Annual Report 2014/15, here's another highlight from our shared reading activity…
‘By being in the reading group, I exist as a person’ – Anna’s Story
The Reader's Annual Report 2014/15 will be published later this month, in time to read at our 2015 AGM where…
The Reader makes the shortlist for social enterprise
Wonderful news to share from our HQ as we can announce that The Reader has made the shortlist for two…
Sea Fever, Fish and Chips: Merseyside Volunteers Celebration
From Christopher Lynn, Volunteer Assistant ‘I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky’…
Shared reading in Bebington Central Library: Great at 8
This week has seen an amazing milestone in the story of shared reading (so far), with one of our longest…
Taking Shared Reading to new heights
It was William Blake in his Poetical Works who said "Great things are done when Men and Mountains meet/This is…
45 Years In Another Country
45 Years, recently released in cinemas, is on the surface a film about the span of time. Kate and Geoff…
“It is such a meaningful thing to do”: Volunteering in Barnet
The Reader's volunteer-led projects in Barnet, North London were our first outside of our base in Merseyside and since their…
Featured Poem: There Will Come Soft Rains by Sara Teasdale
This week, we're sharing a poem recently read with some of our reading groups for people living with dementia -…
