Monthly Archive for August, 2009

The Reader Magazine Launches the Reading Revolution – 2 Sept 09

Published on August 25, 2009 in Events. Closed Tags: .

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The Reader Magazine Launches the Reading Revolution

6pm–7.30pm on Wednesday 2nd September 2009
Waterstone’s, 12 College Lane, Liverpool ONE

Readers! Join us for what promises to be an absorbing evening of poetry, readings and talk with author and screenwriter, Frank Cottrell Boyce, and editors of The Reader magazine.

Hear their ‘Reader Recommendations’, a selection of favourite reads, many of which will be available to buy on the evening. They will also discuss why, more than ever, reading great fiction and poetry is so essential to life.

The Reader is published quarterly by The Reader Organisation, a charity which aims to bring about a Reading Revolution. We think The Reader a little gem, but don’t just take our word for it:

“One of the best things to thump through the letter-box
– full of pithy, passionate and precise things…”    Seamus Heaney

“Very good. Thoughtful and true”  Doris Lessing

Tickets are FREE and can be reserved from
Waterstone’s Liverpool ONE on 0151 709 9820;
or collected in person from Waterstone’s, Liverpool ONE

http://thereader.org.uk/

The Reader – Trainee Get Into Reading Project Worker

Published on August 20, 2009 in Jobs. Closed

The Reader – Trainee Get Into Reading Project Worker.

Trainee Get Into Reading project worker (Young People)

Full or part-time to suit candidate

One-year fixed term contract £15,000 p.a. pro rata

Deadline 3 September 2009

Could you get young people into reading?

“I love reading now, I read in bed at night with my torch and I’ve learned how to spell better by reading lots of new words with you and on my own.”

Child who previously hated reading, Merseyside

The Reader Organisation seeks to appoint a Trainee ‘Get into Reading’ Project Worker  who will work mainly but not exclusively with Young People. We are looking for an energetic person who is sensitive, outgoing  and good at building relationships, but above all, can demonstrate and share a passionate commitment to books and reading.

You don’t need to know a lot about children’s books but you do need to love reading yourself and to be willing to read widely in children’s literature in order to help model reading for pleasure with some of Merseyside’s most socially, educationally and emotionally deprived young people.

You will be joining the lively and committed team of 20 people who make up The Reader Organisation, a charity which intends to bring about a Reading Revolution – that means  great books reaching everyone in all sorts of ways but mainly  through our innovative social inclusion programme, Get Into Reading.

Get Into Reading’s unique read aloud weekly reading group model is attracting national and international interest, and we currently run 128 weekly groups across Merseyside. Our readers range from youth club members who may be younger than 8 years, to people living in Care Homes who might be older than 98. See our website for more details of our work with Local Authorities, the NHS and schools.

  • You will need to undergo an enhanced CRB check.
  • Training in Get into Reading methods will be provided.
  • Minimum 17.5 hours, maximum 35, to suit candidate and to be agreed at interview.

Vacancy: The Reader – Reading Community Outreach Worker

Published on August 20, 2009 in Jobs. Closed

The Reader – Reading Community Outreach Worker.

The Reader Organisation in partnership with Liverpool Libraries and grant funded by the Big Lottery Fund seeks:

Full-time Reading Community Outreach Worker for the Toxteth Community Library project.

Three-year fixed term contract

Salary: £17,000 – £22,000 (starting salary to be based on previous experience)

Deadline 2 September 2009

Following a major Big Lottery Funded refurbishment, Liverpool’s Toxteth library will re-open in Autumn 2009. Working in partnership with Liverpool Libraries and diverse local communities, The Reader Organisation wants to develop a number of weekly community reading groups and other reading-based events and activities. Over 3 years, the successful candidate will build a network of readers and reading communities within the immediate local area, which is socially and economically deprived, and home to an very diverse population. The overall aim will be to improve local people’s health and well being through the power of reading.

This is a great opportunity to build a locally–grounded reader-development project with the full support of committed partners. You will be developing a local best practice model with national implications.

The Reader Organisation has a national and international reputation for innovation and excellence, and has been highlighted as part of the Department of Health’s New Horizons strategy.

Download the full job description and instructions for how to apply.

Or contact The Reader Organisation office on 0151 794 2830 to have pack put in the post and sent to you.