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The Reader Apprenticeship Programme: Building Opportunities for Life
The Reader Organisation has a new fundraising campaign for 2012: giving opportunities for life to care leavers.
This is a cause close to our hearts as we currently have two care-leavers working full-time in their local communities and they are an invaluable asset to the TRO team. We aim to raise £14,000 to employ one more … Read more
The Reader Organisation: 3rd National Conference
Thursday 17th-Friday 18th May 2012
The British Library Conference Centre, Euston Road, London
With the current highlight on the value of reading for everyone, The Reader Organisation is offering a valuable opportunity to become part of a rapidly growing wellbeing movement: reading aloud together for pleasure.
“I never knew this is what books were.” Ted, a literate non-reader, on … Read more
Reading at ARK Homeless Hostel
from Lynn Elsdon, Project Worker, Get Into Reading Wirral
My Get Into Reading group at ARK homeless hostel has been quite exciting in recent weeks. I feel I am becoming a recognised and increasingly accepted face at the hostel, with residents telling me that they look forward to me coming, and saying cheerfully when I arrive … Read more
New Radicals Award
“It’s great to be seen as a radical; it’s so easy to take books and reading for granted.”
The Reader Organisation, founded by Jane Davis, has been announced as one of Britain’s New Radicals.
In December 2011, NESTA and The Observer, launched an open call to find Britain’s New Radicals: people creating radical new solutions to the … Read more




