We support people to discover and share the health and wellbeing benefits of reading for pleasure.

WHAT WE DO

Our partnerships

Reading for Wellbeing has established effective partnerships with public health, libraries, the voluntary and community sector and social prescribing across the North East. We are effective through our flexibility.

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Community Reading Workers

Our Community Reading Workers provide individual support to access books and reading for pleasure and bring people together to share their experiences in local groups.

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Bespoke training

We provide bespoke training to support Community Reading Workers in partnership with Opening the Book.

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OUR IMPACT

We have engaged people of all ages from targeted communities across local authority areas in the North East of England.

Stories can be healing. If we’re drowning in chaotic thoughts of our own, to step inside someone else’s head, just for a while, is a kind of freedom.

Ann Cleeves

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Meet the people involved and find out what the project means to them

I hadn't left the house for nearly three years because of the pandemic, and I just totally lost confidence in going out at all. I was referred here, and the friendship and everything is brilliant - it's really doing my confidence good.

Jeff, participant

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Help us to grow Reading for Wellbeing and encourage more people to discover the benefits of reading

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Community Reading Workers Contact Details

Get in touch to make a referral to one of our Community Reading Workers

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