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Funday Sundae at The Bluecoat for Liverpool Pride
This weekend Liverpool will be awash with colour as the annual Liverpool Pride celebrations bring the city to life and we’ll be joining the Sundae Funday at The Bluecoat. With dance, music, food, fun...
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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...
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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...
View ArticleThe Reading Revolution comes to Hampshire
Hampshire Cultural Trust is working with The Reader as part of its plans to provide a programme of cultural engagement opportunities that directly respond to the needs of its local community. In...
View ArticleCelebrating Mary Oliver
We’re remembering Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and Reader favourite Mary Oliver, who died aged 83 last week. Last Thursday we were saddened to hear of the death of American poet Mary Oliver. Her poems...
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...
View ArticleShared Reading is giving young boys in a California juvenile hall ‘a place to...
Kathy sent herself across the world last summer to take up The Reader’s Read to Lead training at our Liverpool HQ – perhaps just about the only thing you can’t get in California. She was already very...
View Article“No pressure, just pleasure – I instantly relaxed” – Nim’s Reader Story
I started going to the reading group in the autumn last year. Two friends had mentioned it; I was feeling a bit low and they told me to pop down. I thought about it for a few months before I plucked...
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Translating Shared Reading into Portuguese with a visit to Brazil
By Chris Lynn, Learning and Quality Leader Olá Readers! Last month, I represented The Reader at a new social intervention event at the University of São Paulo, as well as supporting The Danish Reading...
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Belfast organiser launches first Shared Reading Space outside England – in a...
Marnie Kennedy tells us about the launch of a new Shared Reading Space in Belfast at the Duncairn Centre Volunteers at the Duncairn Centre for Culture and Arts, a former Presbyterian church “once...
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“Something creative and unpredictable within what was otherwise a very...
Fiona Magee, research assistant based at CRILS – Centre for Research into Reading, Literature and Society – and Reader Leader in Criminal Justice settings, tells us about the latest presentation of...
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A Masterclass on Shared Reading with Older People – celebrating 74 groups in...
25 Reader Leaders from across the South West came together last week for a Masterclass on Reading with Older People as part of Loneliness Awareness Week. There are currently 74 groups meeting across...
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