Carers Week 2013
This week (10th-16th June) is Carers Week 2013, a UK-wide annual campaign that has the aim of raising the profile of carers, recognising and celebrating the contribution of the nation’s 6.5 million...
View ArticleShared Reading for Healthy Communities: Denise’s Story
The Reader Organisation’s fourth national conference, Shared Reading for Healthy Communities, took place last month in London and we’re still enlivened and inspired by the day, full of insightful...
View ArticleBetty’s Reader Story
Earlier this week on The Reader Online we gave a summary of the ‘Living Well with Dementia’ session at Shared Reading for Healthy Communities, this year’s National Conference of The Reader...
View ArticleReading for pleasure puts children ahead in the classroom
A new study has found that children who regularly read for pleasure are more likely to perform significantly better in school subjects than their peers who read less. The research by the Institute of...
View ArticleVolunteering at The Reader Organisation: Arline’s Story
At The Reader Organisation, we’re lucky to work with a growing band of hardworking and dedicated volunteers who are helping us to spread the benefits of shared reading even further across communities....
View ArticleRead to Lead this Autumn in Glasgow
Read to Lead Glasgow 30th/31st October, 1st November 2013 City Halls & Old Fruitmarket, Candleriggs, Glasgow G1 1NQ Looking for a new start with literature this Autumn? Interested in using your...
View ArticleFrom Book Break to Read to Lead: Jane’s Story
Last year, we featured the story of one of our shared reading group members in London, and how shared reading provided her with a ‘lifeboat’. Jane, a regular reader in Kensington and Chelsea, joined...
View ArticleThe Big Give Christmas Challenge: How your donations will help
The Reader Organisation is part of The Big Give Christmas Challenge 2013. From today, 5th December to Saturday 7th September, if you donate to TRO through our profile on The Big Give website there’s...
View ArticleThe Reader Organisation’s Annual Report 2012/13
The Reader Organisation’s Annual Report for 2012/13 is available to read and download now on our website. Covering our activities and achievements from April 2012-March 2013, it’s full of headlines,...
View ArticleShad’s Reader Story
Shad has been coming to Book Break, one of our shared reading groups, for two years. He is Kurdish, originally from the north of Iraq. This is Shad’s story, in his own words. I’m very ill, sleeping all...
View ArticleReading for the Brain: Volunteering for The Reader Organisation in Barnet
“I wholeheartedly recommend the experience of being a volunteer with The Reader Organisation – if you are willing to commit the time, to understand and engage with the way TRO works, then it is a...
View ArticleVolunteering with The Reader Organisation: Jennifer and Ginette’s Story
The Reader Organisation’s volunteering projects in Barnet are growing, with two new projects to spread shared reading across the area. Reading for the Brain will recruit and train volunteer...
View Article“It’s unbelievably moving and a real joy”: Shared reading and volunteering in...
Since January this year, The Reader Organisation have been running weekly Library Memory Groups in libraries across Wiltshire. Funded by Wiltshire Council and NHS Wiltshire Clinical Commissioning...
View ArticleAn Evaluation of a Literature Based Intervention for People with Chronic Pain
The latest research into the effects shared reading is having as a non-medical, literature based intervention into health conditions has been published by The Reader Organisation and research partners....
View ArticleBetter with a Book: One week to go!
There’s just one week to go until we head to the British Library Conference Centre in London for Better with a Book, The Reader Organisation’s National Conference 2014. Delegates from across the UK...
View ArticleD’s Reader Story
The Reader Organisation runs weekly shared reading groups in the South West of England, with a particular focus on improving health and stimulating wellbeing through shared reading. We currently work...
View Article“Reading has given me life”: Better with a Book
Our Young People panel, Baroness Estelle Morris, Dr Alice Sullivan and Simon Barber with Jane (c. @PennyFosten, Twitter) Yesterday delegates, readers and The Reader Organisation staff descended on The...
View ArticleRead to Lead in London this June
At Better with a Book in London last week, we heard the amazingly moving and inspiring stories of some of our Readers, including that of Jennifer who after attending a shared reading group with her...
View ArticleVolunteers Week 2014: Liz’s Story
It’s Volunteers Week 2014, an annual event which takes place on 1st-7th June. Volunteers Week celebrates the important contribution made by millions of volunteers to organisations and businesses around...
View Article‘It gives me a sense of worth again’– A’s Reader Story
At The Reader Organisation, we’re opening up the wealth of emotional experience contained in great literature to people regardless of which life situation they currently find themselves in. Our weekly...
View Article
More Pages to Explore .....