Andy Burnham headlines Shared Reading for Healthy Communities
Andy Burnham MP, Shadow Health Secretary, will be discussing ‘The Books that Built Me’ at The Reader Organisation’s fourth annual national conference, Shared Reading for Healthy Communities, taking place at the British Library Conference Centre in London on Thursday 16th May.
Andy has become a supporter of our work after visiting one of our Get Into … Read more
The award-winning Unforgotten Coat!
We’re absolutely delighted that The Reader Organisation patron Frank Cottrell Boyce has won the Guardian Children’s Fiction prize 2012 for The Unforgotten Coat, the story he wrote exclusively for us for Our Read 2011.
50,000 free copies of the wonderful story, about two brothers from Mongolia who come to Merseyside but are forced to return to … Read more
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

