The Reader Organisation’s partnership with partnership with Liverpool LACES, which focuses upon reading at home and encouraging Looked After Children to take up reading in their free time.
Here’s C’s story:
C had suffered a lot of neglect in his early life and was falling badly behind at school. His carers were also very concerned about his … Read more →

“The reading group gets it out in the open. Whatever is hidden up and out – if you have got feelings put down they have got to come up and out otherwise your head would explode.”

Lesley Tinsley  joined the reading group at Upstairs@83 in July 2009 when it was initially set up as part of one … Read more →

Louise Jones, Get Into Reading group member, Birkenhead

“Before joining a Get Into Reading group I spent most of my time in a hospital bed (I have Asperger’s Syndrome) as the stress of the outside world was just too much, sending my blood sugar through the roof… and into a hospital. I am no mathematician but … Read more →