Thanks for visiting my JustGiving page! I’m fundraising for The Reader, a charity that runs Shared Reading groups. Shared Reading groups help to bring people together through reading aloud, and help everyone to enjoy and experience the benefits of great literature.

Through a growing movement of 1,000 volunteers and partners across different sectors, The Reader currently bring over 2,500 people together each month to share and discuss great novels, plays and poems, through Shared Reading. By reading with school groups, families, adults, looked after children, older people in care homes, adults with physical and/or mental health conditions, people coping with or recovering from addiction and individuals in the criminal justice system, their work is helping to improve wellbeing, reduce isolation and build stronger communities across the UK.

I’m fundraising to help The Reader keep connecting communities through Shared Reading, support volunteers to run groups across the UK, provide reading resources for groups, and help to ensure that anyone can attend a Shared Reading group for free.

I’ll be reading a poem aloud every day for 12 Days – keep up to date with my progress on this page! Thank you for your generous support.