28 November 2023
Get inspired with award-winning poet Joshua Seigal
Get inspired with award-winning poet Joshua Seigal including teaching notes and a video of Joshua reading one of his poems from his new book,
26 October 2023
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Reading Friends Cars activity pack
Reading related themed activity pack focused on cars.
26 October 2023
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Reading Friends Crime and thriller stories activity pack
Reading related activity pack focused on crime and thriller stories.
23 October 2023
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Reading Friends Participation Monitoring Form
The new form for October 2023-October 2024. We’ve further simplified it. We encourage monthly submission but there are two important dates highlighted (Jan 2024 and June 2024). Please email it to readingfriends@readingagency.org.uk on the submission dates. If you have any questions...
10 October 2023
Reading Power: Communications Toolkit
Support our fundraising campaign focused on improving adult reading confidence across the UK.
10 October 2023
Reading Friends Offer and Impact
An overview of the Reading Friends offer alongside its impact.
10 October 2023
Definitions of vision impairment
This resource discusses how a vision impairment may affect people. It includes information, support and training provided by RNIB.
19 September 2023
Reading Friends Commissioning Case for Support
This document gives your library service information to share with commissioners to raise support and funding to cover project costs. It aligns the benefits of Reading Friends with Commissioners’ priorities. If you have received local evaluation summary data from the...
15 September 2023
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Reading Friends Group Ground Rules
You can use these ground rules as a guide or change as necessary for your group.
11 September 2023
Reading Friends Impact Overview 2022-23
The reach and impact from 2022-23 of Reading Friends. Please do share.
04 August 2023
Training and support for working with blind and partially sighted people
We have created this overview of existing training and support available for library staff working with blind and partially sighted people.
31 May 2023
Reading Friends Impact with visually impaired people 2022
Analysis of 2021-22 Reading Friends evaluation data regarding visually impaired people.
27 April 2023
Running Reading Friends with Visually Impaired People (Welsh)
This toolkit has been developed in partnership by Reading Friends and Share the Vision to provide inspiration and ideas to help you run effective reading groups in your library. It has been translated into Welsh. Un o’r ffyrdd y gallwch chi...
27 April 2023
Running Reading Friends with Visually Impaired People
This toolkit has been developed in partnership by Reading Friends and Share the Vision to provide inspiration and ideas to help you run effective reading groups in your library.
19 April 2023
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Reading Friends Quick Reads 2023 Resources
This folder contains six session packs using the Quick Reads 2023 titles: Dead Man Talking by Roddy Doyle Hello Mum by Bernadine Evaristo One False Move by Dreda Say Mitchell Paris for One by Jojo Meyes The Double Clue by Agatha Christie Wish You Were...
04 April 2023
ITV news Reading Friends new clips
Clips from the ITV regional news channels showing different Reading Friends groups in March 2023.
01 December 2022
Reading Letters project information
The website “Material Bodies, Social Bodies” makes accessible many hundreds of letters written by British men, women and children between 1680-1820. The letters could be used within your Reading Friends groups and one-to-ones. The letters contain a wealth of information...
19 October 2022
Reading Friends Reach and Impact Report 2021-22
The Reach and Impact Evaluation report for 2021-22 details the difference the programme has made, working with public libraries. Please share widely with relevant contacts.
08 September 2022
Reading Friends impact overview 2021-22
Read about the difference Reading Friends has made, working with public libraries in 2021-22. This is an overview ahead of the full impact report.
09 August 2022
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Reading Friends Volunteer Management Session run by NCVO
Materials from the Good Practice in Volunteer Management session run by NCVO on 20 July 2022
19 July 2022
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Reading Friends Volunteer Toolkit
Taken from section 5 of the Project Toolkit, this section is focused on Reading Befrienders who may be volunteers or staff. It details the specific support for the volunteer journey: Recruiting, Managing and Supporting volunteers. [Supporting the NCVO session 20...
01 June 2022
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Reading Friends Jubilee Session Idea
Use these ideas for sessions celebrating Her Majesty the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee in 2022.
27 May 2022
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Reading Friends Big Jubilee Reads Session Plan - Death of a Naturalist (1962-1971)
This resource contains an extract from ‘Death of a Naturalist’ by Seamus Heaney as well as discussion questions for you to use in your Reading Friends session. There’s one story from each decade.
27 May 2022
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Reading Friends Big Jubilee Read Session Idea - The Crow Eaters (1972-1981)
This resource contains an extract from ‘The Crow Eaters’ by Bapsi Sidhwa as well as discussion questions for you to use in your Reading Friends session. There’s one story from each decade.
27 May 2022
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Reading Friends Big Jubilee Read Session Idea - Summer Lightning (1982-1991)
This resource contains an extract from ‘Summer Lightning’ by Olive Senior as well as discussion questions for you to use in your Reading Friends session. There’s one story from each decade.
27 May 2022
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Reading Friends Big Jubilee Reads Session Plan - Life of Pi (1992-2001)
This resource contains an extract from ‘Life of Pi’ by Yann Martel as well as discussion questions for you to use in your Reading Friends session. There’s one story from each decade.
27 May 2022
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Reading Friends Big Jubilee Read Session Idea - Chinaman (2002-2011)
This resource contains an extract from ‘Chinaman’ by Shehan Karunatilaka as well as discussion questions for you to use in your Reading Friends session. There’s one story from each decade.
27 May 2022
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Reading Friends Big Jubilee Read Session Idea - The Night Tiger (2012-2022)
This resource contains an extract from ‘The Night Tiger’ by Yangsze Choo as well as discussion questions for you to use in your Reading Friends session. There’s one story from each decade.
18 May 2022
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Reading Friends Under 11s feedback tool (Welsh)
This has been translated into Welsh. This evaluation feedback tool can be used with primary aged children under 11 involved in Reading Friends.
18 May 2022
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Reading Friends Dementia Feedback Tool (Welsh)
This has been translated into Welsh. This evaluation tool can be used with people who are living with dementia. It’s useful for people who cannot fill in surveys or for whom surveys aren’t appropriate. It can help capture ‘in the moment’...
