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Inspiring Primary School leavers to keep reading for pleasure
National Literacy Trust, Walker Books and Facebook team up with author Anthony Horowitz to inspire reading for pleasure among children leaving primary school. Following new research by the National...
View ArticleThe Reader to present at 2017 ISPS International Psychosis Conference
The Reader to bring Shared Reading to delegates at The International Society for Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychosis with conference appearance and newly announced Read to Lead course...
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The Big Give Christmas Challenge – Helping Isolated Older People
Bring Shared Reading to a new community Last December, The Reader launched a three-day fundraising campaign as part of The Big Give’s Christmas Challenge. Supported by The Pilgrim Trust and the...
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Yours Magazine: The woman leading a quiet reading revolution
“Reading changed my life. It gives you a bit of space; it’s an escape into a place where you can imagine yourself different.” The Reader’s founder and director Jane Davis speaks to Carole Richardson...
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Kind but bold: Shared Reading Montana
At The Reader we’re constantly blown away by the personal stories our group members, volunteers and colleagues share with us. We’ve learned that you can never underestimate where your Shared Reading...
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The Reader 66
My oh my have we got a cracking magazine for you this quarter! The summer edition is out now, jam-packed with fantastic new writing, powerful personal essays and all the latest Reader thinking. Where...
View ArticleFeatured Poem: Composed Upon Westminster Bridge by William Wordsworth
We’re harking back to Featured Poem of yore today with a specially selected poem by one of our former colleagues back in 2012, William Wordsworth’s Composed Upon Westminster Bridge. This week’s...
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The Reader 67
Since our last meeting with The Reader magazine, a chill had crept into the air and it won’t be long now until the changing of the clocks brings on the darkening evenings of winter… BUT, at least can...
View ArticleVolunteer Month: Shared Reading North West needs you!
The Reader is building a volunteer-led movement across the North West. Could you help us make that happen? Shared Reading has been proven to promote better health and well-being, to increase social...
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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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