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What We Do

For over twenty years, The Reader has been building a community of Shared Reading groups across the UK and around the world. Here, people connect and share experiences using stories and poems. There is no pressure to talk or read aloud.

These groups happen in all sorts of places including libraries, care homes, cathedrals, cafes, hospitals, prisons, and at our home in Liverpool’s Calderstones Park – the International Centre for Shared Reading and are attended by people from all walks of life.

We believe that literature’s unique power has the potential to connect individuals, help us feel better and to rebuild lost social bonds. We believe that Shared Reading is needed now more than ever.