Impact Report 2023-2024

📋About

Shared Reading groups in community settings, libraries, care homes, cathedrals, hospitals, prisons and closed settings; Reading Heroes programme for care-experienced children aged 2-15 (expanded outside Liverpool City Region); Tiny Heroes pre-school Shared Reading for care-experienced children; First Page Project family reading with North West partner organisations; Storybarn children's playspace and holiday clubs; ESOL Shared Reading groups for asylum seekers and refugees; Criminal Justice Shared Reading in 28 PIPEs (Psychologically Informed Planned Environments); chronic pain Shared Reading group at Broadgreen Hospital (13 years); 50 new community mental health groups established; National Lottery Heritage Fund 'Making Meaning at Calderstones' project concluded with permanent artwork installation

📊Key Metrics

✅Key Outcomes

• 97% of Shared Reading participants look forward to the group as an important part of their week; 95% say Shared Reading lifts their mood; 90% say Shared Reading gives them space to put day-to-day concerns to one side
• 100% of Reading Heroes participants reported significant improvements in wellbeing; 12 ESOL Shared Reading groups established for asylum seekers and refugees; 1,297 children engaged in heritage school trips
• National Lottery Heritage Fund heritage project concluded with installation of permanent public artwork 'Now We Sit With It' by Sumuyya Khader; 5,500+ volunteer hours contributed; new partnerships with Camden Council, Halton Borough Council and Alder Hey Children's Hospital; Criminal Justice contract renewed for Shared Reading in 28 PIPEs nationally

📍Geography

North West