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.

Mums, Bumps and Babies

Power of Poetry

How poems helped Denise and Monica build a lockdown friendship

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

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

Reading Friends volunteer coordinator, Simon

60 seconds with…Simon

Reading Friends volunteer, Lyndon

60 seconds with…Lyndon

Reading Friends crafts in Corton Vale

The power of poetry

Reading Friend, Arthur

Reading is something I find valuable

Reading Friend Arthur, from Horsham

Reading Friends volunteer, Liz

60 seconds with…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

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

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

My grandma is magic by Grace Stead

My grandma is magic

Susie reading books

Susie’s story

Reading Friends in Horsham

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

Reading Friends volunteer, Ron

Old stories, and new memories

Reading Friends volunteer, Dermot

The gift of friendship

Andrea O'Donnell

Luisa from Ignite Imaginations and Anita from Sheffield Museums

Reading Friends in Museums

Oldham’s forgotten refugees

Karuna Mohandas

Mary from Reading Friends in Horsham

A poem to share

Keith Oliver

We read to know we are not alone

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