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Meet Calderstones Volunteer, Beryl: ‘It has been a life changing experience for me’
The UK’s largest Shared Reading charity is celebrating its amazing team of volunteers throughout June inspired by Volunteers’ Week 2025, Monday…
Meet Heritage Volunteer, Jim: ‘One of the most worthwhile parts of my role is taking primary school trips on a Stone Age Walk’
The UK’s largest Shared Reading charity is celebrating its amazing team of volunteers throughout June inspired by Volunteers’ Week 2025, Monday…
Meet Reading Heroes Volunteer, Jo: ‘I’ve worked with care experienced children in the past. To have the opportunity to help one child in a small way is a real privilege’
The UK’s largest Shared Reading charity is celebrating its amazing team of volunteers throughout June inspired by Volunteers’ Week 2025, Monday…
Storybarn Book of the Month: Saving the Butterfly
This month, as part of Refugee Week (16-22 June), we've been taking a look back at one of our favourites…
Shared Reading in Wirral Libraries: ‘As a kid people read stories to you but as an adult you lose that – and it’s a fantastic thing to do!’
Two Strategic Librarians for Wirral Libraries, Kathleen McKean and Diane Mitchell have been working in partnership with the UK’s largest…
Meet our Bookshop Volunteer, Barbara: ‘My volunteer experience has become an added dimension in my life.’
The UK’s largest Shared Reading charity celebrates its amazing team of volunteers this month inspired by Volunteers’ Week 2025, Monday…
Meet Reader Leader Dorothy: ‘The most wonderful thing about being a Reader Leader is the people who I read with’
The UK’s largest Shared Reading charity is celebrating its amazing team of volunteers throughout June inspired by Volunteers’ Week 2025,…
New Liverpool open air cinema brings movies to the Mansion
NEW FOR 2025: Eight handpicked films will hit the big screen in Calderstones Park this summer as national Shared Reading…
June’s Stories and Poems
This month we are celebrating the natural world, and especially the many wonderful creatures that live within it, with June’s…
Meet Heritage Volunteer, Roy ‘I’ve always been interested in history and like speaking to visitors who’ve never been here… about the history of the Mansion House, park and ancient Calder Stones’
The UK’s largest Shared Reading charity celebrates its amazing team of volunteers as part of Volunteers’ Week 2025, Monday 2…
Meet Jamaican poet & novelist Christine Roseeta Walker, a volunteer Reader Leader
The UK’s largest Shared Reading charity celebrates its incredible team of volunteers as part of Volunteers’ Week 2025, Monday 2…
Meet Tiny Heroes Volunteer Carole-Ann Montgomery ‘I wanted to be a constant in the lives of young children living in care… just to read and have fun through books with them’
The UK’s largest Shared Reading charity celebrates its amazing team of volunteers as part of Volunteers’ Week 2025, Monday 2…
