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Sharing stories

Reading Friends is a vibrant community with endless existing stories to share. Have a read and find out what we’ve been up to.

Reading Friends Café at Elders Voice

“I don’t feel alone any longer”

Staffordshire Libraries

Reflecting on Reading Friends during lockdown

60 Seconds with…Viveen

60 Seconds with… Anne Marie

Reading Friends volunteer, Anne Marie

60 Seconds with…Kate

Reading Friends volunteer, Kate

60 Seconds with…Susan

Susan

The Times Christmas Appeal 2019: read all the stories so far…

Alison Blaxland
Anastasia Georgousis

60 seconds with…Anastasia

Anastasia Georgousis
Anything but silent podcast

The soul needs books

Alison Blaxland

Reading Friends allows us to reminisce

Karuna Mohandas
Natalie Turnbull

60 seconds with…Natalie

Natalie Turnbull
Richard O'Neill

Billy book-head and beyond

Richard O'Neill
Brian and his daughter

How Reading Friends tackles loneliness in people with dementia

Edward Cutler
Reading Friends in Horsham

How Reading Friends became a “pillar” in Horsham

Mandy Jones
Reading Friends volunteer coordinator, Simon

60 seconds with…Simon

Simon Jay
Reading Friends volunteer, Lyndon

60 seconds with…Lyndon

Lyndon
Reading Friends crafts in Corton Vale

The power of poetry

Koren Calder
Reading Friend, Arthur

Reading is something I find valuable

Reading Friend Arthur, from Horsham
Reading Friends volunteer, Liz

60 seconds with…Liz

Liz
Reading Friends Sadie and Andy

Sharing personal histories

Margaret and Morag

You never know where discussions will go

Reading Friends volunteer, Margaret
Pat and Kay

Hope for the future by uncovering the past

Kay
Reading Friends

Reading Friends made me fall in love with books again

Michael and Gerry

Michael’s experiences

Andrea O'Donnell
Reading Friends in Stirling

Reading Friends across the generations

Koren Calder
Author Wendy Mitchell at her home in York.

Somebody I used to know

Wendy Mitchell
Reading Friends volunteer Gerry and session support worker Michelle

60 seconds with…Gerry

Gerry
My grandma is magic by Grace Stead

My grandma is magic

Grace Stead
Susie reading books

Susie’s story

Mandy
Reading Friends in Horsham

The fun never ends, when you’re a Reading Friend

Ingrid
Reading Friends volunteer, Ron

Old stories, and new memories

Dan Kinnair
Reading Friends volunteer, Dermot

The gift of friendship

Andrea O'Donnell
Luisa from Ignite Imaginations and Anita from Sheffield Museums

Reading Friends in Museums

Kath Horner

Oldham’s forgotten refugees

Karuna Mohandas
Mary from Reading Friends in Horsham

A poem to share

Mary
Keith Oliver

We read to know we are not alone

Keith Oliver
Yarn Natter Blether stories

Yarn, Natter, Blether stories

Alison Blaxland
Reading Friend Ron

It’s never too late to learn new things

Ron from Abbeyfield, West Sussex

My poem about Reading Friends

A Reading Friends volunteer
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