The Reader is the UK's biggest Shared Reading charity
From our global Shared Reading movement and social enterprises, through to the events and activities on offer at our Calderstones Park home – our work improves wellbeing, reduces loneliness and helps us find new meaning in our lives.
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95%
Shared Reading lifts my mood
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90%
It helps me connect deeply to others
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97%
I feel valued and accepted for who I am
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95%
Hearing other people's thoughts gives me new ways of seeing things
The Home of Shared Reading
What’s Happening
Our home in Liverpool’s Calderstones Park is a thriving community celebrating creativity, books and nature, and offers a warm welcome...
Visit Calderstones
The Reader is a national charity which brings people together and books to life. Our home in Liverpool's beautiful Calderstones...
The Storybarn
Our imaginative play space for children and families will spark a lifelong love of reading for pleasure.
News and Updates
A patient once said to me: ‘Thank you for reminding me that I can feel’
Sue Colbourn helped establish a Shared Reading partnership between The Reader and Prospect Park, an NHS psychiatric hospital in Berkshire,…
In Conversation with ground-breaking dual-heritage author Jacqueline Roy at The Reader, Liverpool.
The author Jacqueline Roy will be in Liverpool discussing her ‘forgotten’ novel The Fat Lady Sings, republished as part of…
The Reader launches Christmas appeal to raise £10,000 to expand its work with local people affected by dementia
As the festive season approaches, the Liverpool-based, national Shared Reading charity is launching an appeal campaign calling for help to…
Become a volunteer
Love reading? Love meeting new people? Want to make a difference locally? If so, Shared Reading could be the thing for you. And you could be just the person for us.
