NATIONAL charity The Reader has announced a major investment creating a new collaborative community-led strategy for the North West including Warrington.
Over the next two years, the Shared Reading North West campaign will bring the health and social benefits to in communities across the region.
Since 2008, The Reader has established the use of Shared Reading to improve well-being, reduce social isolation and build resilience in diverse communities across the UK. This new programme will bring Shared Reading to many more people, training and supporting volunteers to run their own groups in their local areas – for the community by the community.
The Reader’s founder and director Jane Davis said: “The Reader was born in the North West and we’ve worked with communities here for over a decade.
We aim to make Shared Reading available for people in every community across the North West.”
Working with commissioning partners, delivery partners and volunteers within their local communities, The Reader will establish hundreds of new Shared Reading groups across Halton, Knowsley, Liverpool, Sefton, St. Helens, Warrington, Wigan and Wirral in diverse settings such as libraries, community centres, GP practices, health centres, hospitals, care homes and workplaces.
The Reader has ambitious plans to grow this innovative approach to health and well-being further across the North West region over the next three years and invites partners to get in contact and get involved.
