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Read To Lead’s Online Swedish Adventure
While we’re no strangers to delivering Shared Reading training to international participants here at The Reader, we’ve usually done so…
The Reader Magazine: Reading As You Like It by William Shakespeare
This Shared Reading response is taken from Issue 73 of The Reader Magazine. For more articles, interviews, stories and poems from…
Online Volunteer Support Provision – May and June 2021
We’re here to provide support for your learning needs, as well as company and connection, with our programme of weekly…
Open to All – Join a Shared Reading Group on Zoom
Shared Reading groups are free and open to all, and you can now join in from the comfort of your…
Shared Reading on National Prison Radio
Your chance to listen to specially curated programmes, including final episode with award-winning writer, Lemn Sissay MBE Earlier this year, The Reader collaborated with prison-based charity, Prison Radio Association,…
Award nomination for hospital trust’s innovative Shared Reading programme
Shared Reading delivers incredible connections and powerful moments for patients in Warrington and Halton Warrington and Halton Hospitals (WHH) NHS Trust has been shortlisted for a…
Shared Reading in lockdown: changing and building
Over the past few months Shared Reading has taken on a new form, with groups that usually happen in-person moving…
Connecting People to the Arts Through Social Prescribing
Earlier this month, The Reader was invited to speak at the NHSE Social Prescribing Webinar – Connecting People to the Arts Through Social Prescribing. Brought…
Poems for changing times: 30 poems for Shared Reading
So far, 2020 has been a year that none of us could have imagined or knew what would have been…
Poems in the Park
For much of this year, Shared Reading has been taking place through a range of alternative methods, such as Zoom or the telephone. But last Saturday, several groups…
How literature can be a lifeline to support mental health
The Baring Foundation are an independent foundation which protects and advances human rights and promotes inclusion. Using their resources they…
The Reader celebrates Investing in Volunteers award
'This is probably the most rewarding thing I’ve ever done. The connectedness you get with other human beings is quite…
