The Reader Apprenticeship Programme: Building Opportunities for Life

The Reader Apprenticeship Programme: Building Opportunities for Life

Posted on April 24th, 2012 in: Donate, Staff, Supporters

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

The Reader Organisation: 3rd National Conference

Posted on March 20th, 2012 in: Annual Conference, Developing Get Into Reading, London, Training, What We Do

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

New Radicals Award

New Radicals Award

Posted on February 19th, 2012 in: Awards

“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