News and Updates

We love welcoming new friends to our magical children’s play space the Storybarn in Calderstones Park for Birthday Parties and…

February’s selection of stories, extracts and poems have been chosen on the theme of ‘Making connections’. We spend so much…

In September 2021, a group of men from Damien John Kelly House – an abstinence-based recovery living centre for adult…

We're continuing to delve into the Children and Young People's Reader Bookshelf with a review of Joseph Coelho's 25 Poems of Power…

Bradbury Fields is a charity in Liverpool which works with blind and partially sighted people, and The Reader deliver a…

Our 'From the Bookshelf' piece for January  explores the collection A Year With Rilke, and was written by Lisa Spurgin.…

We're making it our mission to track down all of our wonderful Storyhunters and find out a little more about…

The Featured Poem for January is Love by George Herbert and is from the anthology Stressed, Unstressed and is read by…

Settling into a new year can often come with lots of feelings and emotions – excitement about new opportunities, along…

We're continuing to delve into the Children and Young People's Reader Bookshelf with a review of Frances Hodgson Burnett's  The Little…

We're delighted to have been awarded £120,000 by The National Lottery Community Fund to support work over the next three…

The end of the calendar year is often a busy time, but also a time where we reflect on what…