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Yvonne’s Story: “It’s like a therapy for your mind. It relaxes your mind to have something different to think about.”
Yvonne moved to England from Jamaica in the 1970s and worked as a nurse for many years. She joined a telephone Shared Reading group…
Adventure awaits on new outdoor trail from The Storybarn and Walker Books
The Storybarn is bringing an action-packed outdoor adventure to Calderstones Park this summer in collaboration with Walker Books, the…
Featured Poem: After Great Pain, a Formal Feeling Comes by Emily Dickinson
For the rest of June our weekly Featured Poem will celebrate the month of Pride. We’ve chosen poems by LGBTQ+…
Featured Poem: ‘Ithaka’ by C.P.Cavafy
For the rest of June our weekly Featured Poem will celebrate the month of Pride. We’ve chosen poems by LGBTQ+…
Cycling Shakespeare troupe ride into Calderstones Park this summer
‘By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes.’ ― William Shakespeare, Macbeth Touring theatre troupe, The HandleBards, will be arriving…
Reading Teachers = Reading Pupils – Applications now open
We’re excited to announce that we’ll be working with Cheltenham Festivals once again as part of their Reading Teachers =…
June’s Stories and Poems
To mark Pride month, June's selection of Monthly Stories and Poems showcase works from LGBTQ+ authors. Family life is a…
From The Reader Magazine: What to Read Next
In issue 73 of The Reader magazine, Angela Macmillan, editor of The Reader’s A Little, Aloud anthologies, recommends seven books…
Celebrate Volunteers’ Week with us
It's officially Volunteers’ Week 2021 so we want to say a huge thank you to all of our volunteers here…
“I wasn’t expecting to feel moved by a poem” – Patricia’s Reader Story
This Reader Story was collected and written by Fiona Magee. Patricia is a Shared Reading group member who attended a…
My Inner Anthology: As You Like It by William Shakespeare
Reader Leader, Lizzie, recommends As You Like It by William Shakespeare. In May the theme for our Daily Readings is inspired by The…
Marking the anniversary of the death of George Floyd
Today we mark the anniversary of the death of George Floyd, and the events arising around the world in the wake…
