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Meet The Reader: Staff Spotlight with Tavia Panton
Tavia Panton is our Children and Young Persons Project Lead at The Reader. She is also about to begin leading…
Sammi: ‘My head is in a good place considering the pain I am in… I don’t think I’d be where I am today without this Shared Reading group’
Liverpool mum-of-three and carer Sammi, aged 50, has been attending the Shared Reading group at Broadgreen Hospital’s Chronic Pain Clinic…
Helen: ‘I owe my life to that group and Shared Reading.’
The Royal Liverpool Broadgreen University Hospital Trust has commissioned The Reader to deliver a regular Shared Reading group for patients…
Could you read with a looked after child?
“Thank you for helping me read better and for making reading fun and not stupid boring.” Reading Hero, aged 6.…
September’s Monthly Stories and Poems
September’s pick of Monthly Stories and Poems are connected by the theme mixed-up feelings and encounters, reminding us that very rarely…
The Storybarn Selects… From The Reader Bookshelf
The Reader Bookshelf 2024 is a carefully curated collection of literature for adults and children, exploring a different theme each year,…
Meet The Reader: Reading Heroes Coordinator, Rachel
Rachel Bourke is part of our Reading Heroes team which supports care experienced children aged 2-15 years to improve their…
August’s Monthly Stories and Poems
Over the summer, The Reader is running our biggest Shared Reading Awareness campaign in years. See our new video, taking…
Shared Dreams: The Shared Reading Group for Parents Seeking Asylum
Two years ago a new Shared Reading group was set up for families seeking asylum whose children attend the council’s…
Shared Conversation: How Online Shared Reading is Alleviating Loneliness
Former charity manager Diana, who is housebound, has been participating in regular weekly online Shared Reading for the last three…
The Storybarn Selects… From The Reader Bookshelf
The Reader Bookshelf 2024 is here. A carefully curated collection of literature for adults and children, exploring a different theme each year,…
Shared Connection: The Shared Reading group bringing people together even in the most unlikely of places
Squeezed in between a Subway sandwich store and Chopz dog grooming salon in Liverpool’s Belle Vale Shopping Centre is the…
