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We’re a national charity that wants to bring about a reading revolution so that everyone can experience and enjoy great literature, which we believe is a tool for helping humans survive and live well.
Through a growing movement of 1,000 volunteers and partners across different sectors, we currently bring over 2,500 people together each week to share and discuss great novels, plays and poems. We call this Shared Reading.
By reading with families, adults, looked after children, older people in care, adults with physical and/or mental health conditions, people coping with addiction and individuals in the criminal justice system, our work is helping to improve wellbeing, reduce isolation and build stronger communities.
Currently working in 35 prisons and approved premises, we reach 650 people each week:
77% report improved wellbeing
67% report improved confidence
64% say Shared Reading helps them understand themselves better and connect to others in a deeper way
Through a growing movement of 1,000 volunteers and partners across different sectors, we currently bring over 2,500 people together each week to share and discuss great novels, plays and poems. We call this Shared Reading.
By reading with families, adults, looked after children, older people in care, adults with physical and/or mental health conditions, people coping with addiction and individuals in the criminal justice system, our work is helping to improve wellbeing, reduce isolation and build stronger communities.
Currently working in 35 prisons and approved premises, we reach 650 people each week:
77% report improved wellbeing
67% report improved confidence
64% say Shared Reading helps them understand themselves better and connect to others in a deeper way
Contact
Address
The Mansion House,
Calderstones Park,
Merseyside,
L18 3JB,
United Kingdom
Work Tel. No.
0151 7292200
info@thereader.org.uk
Website
In Brief
Charity Number
1126806
No. of Paid Staff
100
No. of Volunteers
1000
Does the organisation involve volunteers with experience of the criminal justice system?
Yes
Primary Field of Work
Arts
Custody or Community
Custody
Community
Organisation type
Voluntary and Community Sector
Regions
East | East Midlands | London | Outer London | Hillingdon | Barnet | South East | North East | North West | South West | Wales | West Midlands | Yorkshire and the Humber
Fields of Work
Arts | Collaboration and partnership working | Commissioning | Lived experience involvement | Mental health | Other | Peer support | Personal development | Prison reform | Prisons | Probation reform | Research & academia | Resettlement | Through the gate | Training | Volunteering
People you work with
Children | Families | Men | Older people | People convicted of serious offences | People convicted of sexual offences | People on a short sentence | Women | Young people
Prisons
Eastwood Park (YOI) | Frankland | Garth | Hindley | Hull | Liverpool | Low Newton (YOI) | New Hall (YOI) | Pentonville | Send | Styal (YOI) | Swaleside | Swansea | Swinfen Hall | Wakefield | Warren Hill | Wayland | Whitemoor | Wymott