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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...
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Calder Stones – history and future collide at Heritage Open Days
Take a guided tour of Calderstones Park and view the architects’ impressions of the refurbished The Mansion House at The Reader’s Courtyard Fair this Saturday, September 9. This Saturday, The Reader...
View ArticleCelebrating Heritage Open Days at The Reader’s Courtyard Fair!
Heritage tours, Shared Reading sessions, poetry readings, market stalls, book giveaways, Storybarn sessions, bouncy castle, facepainting and all the seasons in one day at The Reader’s Courtyard Fair!...
View ArticleShare Austen for Shared Reading – Donate your #FirstTenner
From today you might find Jane Austen in your wallet but do you know how far she could take Shared Reading? “It is not what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.” Sense and Sensibility, Jane...
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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Announcing The Reader’s Big Give Christmas Challenge 2017
Last Christmas you helped us raise over £40,000 to support socially isolated older people through Shared Reading. This year, we’re aiming even higher. Help us reach out to lonely older people this...
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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 Big Give Christmas Challenge Round Up!
Seven days. Three match-funders. 292 donors. £45,881 pounds raised to train and support volunteers to bring weekly Shared Reading groups to isolated older people across the UK. Phew – What a week! At...
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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Featured Poem: The Voice by Thomas Hardy
This week’s featured poem, The Voice by Thomas Hardy, has got thinking about reading aloud in Shared Reading groups, the importance of hearing the written word out loud in different voices. 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...
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Calder Stones – history and future collide at Heritage Open Days
Take a guided tour of Calderstones Park and view the architects’ impressions of the refurbished The Mansion House at The Reader’s Courtyard Fair this Saturday, September 9. This Saturday, The Reader...
View ArticleCelebrating Heritage Open Days at The Reader’s Courtyard Fair!
Heritage tours, Shared Reading sessions, poetry readings, market stalls, book giveaways, Storybarn sessions, bouncy castle, facepainting and all the seasons in one day at The Reader’s Courtyard Fair!...
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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...
View ArticleVolunteer Week: There’s been a sea change in my life, I can’t go back to...
Frank first joined a Shared Reading group in Phoenix House two years ago. He went on to be a group member in a community group and trained to lead a group in a care home. He now runs a community...
View ArticleVolunteer Week: The floodgates opened, I became hugely passionate about reading
Matthew recently shared his experiences of volunteering at the Aesop Arts and Health Conference in London. This is his Reader Story: “After over four years of volunteering, I feel a sense of reflection...
View ArticleVolunteer Week: I cannot imagine anything I would rather do on a Monday
Wrapping up our National Volunteers’ Week Reader Stories, Melanie shares her experiences on volunteering as Reader Leader: I moved to Somerset in 2015 and had very few acquaintances in the area apart...
View ArticleReader Story: Deborah’s Internship with The Reader
A letter from Deborah, our recently departed Reading Resources Intern, who has shared her experiences with The Reader. Before we jump straight in to the story of my three-month internship at The...
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