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Read to Lead: Three Christmas Challenge Volunteers start their Reader Journeys
As we countdown to the launch of The Reader’s Big Give Christmas Challenge, we’ve been catching up with three of the volunteers trained as a result of last year’s successful, award-winning campaign. If...
View ArticleThe Reader join Radio City Talk’s Mental Health Marathon on Blue Monday
This Monday, The Reader will join Radio City’s Mental Health Marathon to challenge the stigma and get the city talking openly about mental health on Blue Monday, officially “the most depressing day of...
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Bringing Shared Reading to Kensington Palace
Great Shared Reading doesn’t need much in the way of surroundings: some people in a space, with chairs to sit on, a story or a poem to read. But over the last 12 months, some of our volunteers at The...
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The Reader celebrates World Book Night 2018
The Reader celebrates World Book Night with a Shared Reading group giveaway of Jo Bell’s Kith. It’s World Book Night and here at The Reader we’ve been celebrating with a book giveaway in our Shared...
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Pain Relief through Shared Reading
A Californian study has suggested that a trip to an art gallery can provide pain relief. The Reader’s Kate McDonnell, who leads a Shared Reading group for people living with chronic pain, understands...
View ArticleExploring Ozymandias in HMP Whitemoor
In our second Group of the Month, we’re shining the spotlight on HMP Whitemoor, where The Reader’s Brendan Harrington runs a weekly group with inmates and staff. The Shared Reading group at HMP...
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First steps with First Page in the North West
Earlier this year we launched an exciting new project that would significantly improve the life chances of children living across the North West by building a culture of reading for pleasure that will...
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The International Reading Revolution: Shared Reading in New Zealand
Earlier this month we were delighted to welcome Kate Middleton (no, not that one!) back to our Liverpool HQ. Kate founded and leads an exciting Shared Reading project called The Reading Revolution in...
View ArticleA Reader Postcard from Somerset
Earlier this year, we announced the news that there are now over 500 Shared Reading groups running across the UK. Here on the blog, we’ll regularly shine the spotlight on those groups taking place up...
View ArticleThe Reader Leader who’s taken Shared Reading to France
The Reader has trained people to Read to Lead all over the world and already has Shared Reading communities from Sweden to New Zealand. We haven’t yet made the stride across the channel to our nearest...
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