Shared Reading happens in all sorts of places like cafes and cathedrals, shops and theatres, community centres and libraries, hospitals and care homes. All groups are completely free to attend.
If you’re looking for a Shared Reading group at our home in Calderstones in South Liverpool, please visit our What’s Happening page.
Or if you’re looking for an online Shared Reading group, head over to our Reading Room site to book your place.
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350+
Regular weekly activities
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19,500+
Readers a year
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95%
Feel better
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81%
Helps connect with others
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- Shared Reading in Barton Hill. Little Library. Monthly. 2nd Tues. 8 Oct, 12 Nov, 10 Dec etc.
- Shared Reading at Knowle Library. Fortnightly. 14, 28 Nov, 12 Dec, 9, 23 Jan, 6, 20 Feb, 6, 20 Mar, 3, April etc.
- St Annes House Shared Reading Group
- St Pauls Library Bristol Shared Reading Group
- Shared Reading at Monica Wills House. On foot: enter via Airpoint, up from Tesco Express, West Street.
- Henleaze Library Shared Reading Group
- Shared Reading for people living with dementia.
- Staple Hill Library Shared Reading
- Redland Library Shared Reading Group
- Cadbury Heath Shared Reading Group
- Bishopston Library Shared Reading Group
- Sea Mills Library Shared Reading Group (Fortnightly)
- Patchway Library Shared Reading Group
- Shepton Mallet Library Group Friday 11am
- Shared Reading at Calne Library – Tuesdays at 10.15 – 11.45 am.
- Wincanton Fortnightly Feel Better with a Book
- Royal Wootton Bassett Shared Reading Group – Thursdays at 11 am
- Barry Library Shared Reading Group
- Abergavenny Library Shared Reading Group – Fortnightly
- Shared Reading Group Yeovil Library Monday 11.30
- St Athan Community Hub and Library Shared Reading Group
- Read Aloud Ledbury Library Friday 2:00pm
- Minehead Library
- Shared Reading Group Castle House Hereford Tuesday 14.00 TERM TIME ONLY
What is Shared Reading?
Shared Reading is a unique experience that helps thousands of people to connect, feel good and live well.
Reading together means that everyone is involved in a shared experience. Group members are encouraged by a trained Reader Leader to respond personally, sharing feelings, thoughts and memories provoked by the reading. There is no pressure to talk or read aloud.
No other organisation makes use of literature in this way. Shared Reading helps us to understand our individual and collective inner lives, round the same table, at the same time.
What happens at a Shared Reading group?
A group of people, one of them a trained Reader Leader, reads a great novel, short story or poem aloud. You do not need to read anything in advance or prepare.
We stop and talk about what we have read. There is no need for group members to read aloud or speak – it’s fine to just listen. The idea is to create a space where people feel at ease.
Everyone experiences the text in their own way, but the literature provides a shared language that can help us to understand ourselves – and others – better.
Who is Shared Reading for?
Shared Reading is for everyone. Many people who come will be experiencing a transition – bereavement, retirement, a change in health, or within their social life. Shared Reading groups provide a warm environment that people want to keep coming back to.
