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Reading Friends logos

Zip file of different formats of Reading Friends and Reading Agency logos.

Useful for comms, design and website teams. read more

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Reading Friends Tips for Managing Group Phone Calls

This resource contains tips to prepare for, set up and deliver Reading Friends sessions using group phone calls. This resource has advice on different conference call platforms you could use, ideas on how to structure a group phone call session and how to effectively include every participant. read more

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Reading Friends Resource Pack: Silly Squad

This pack provides activities for all the family to chat about together – grandparents to grandchildren. It is linked to this year's Summer Reading Challenge – Silly Squad – as why should kids have all the fun! This resource contains activities, reading materials and discussion questions. read more

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Dementia Friendly booklist

After being diagnosed with Young-onset dementia in July 2014 Wendy Mitchell set about finding other ways to keep reading. She shared some of her favourite books with us during 2019 in the attached resource. Wendy passed away in 2024. read more

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Yours magazine nostalgia toolkit

The Reading Agency and Yours Magazine are delighted to partner up and bring you this memories collection and toolkit.

The team at Yours Magazine have chosen their favourite nostalgia features from Yours and Yours Retro magazines to share with you. They've also included a few short stories from… read more

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Reading Friends Adaptable Matching Questionnaire

You can use and adapt this editable questionnaire to match up your Reading Friends and Reading Befrienders by their interests and also find out more about them. It can be a useful way of finding out any support needs. If you're able to email any filled out ones to… read more

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Reading Friends Tips for Telephone Reading Befriending

This resource contains ideas for activities, possible reading materials and reading-related conversation starters for Reading Friends sessions delivered over the phone. Please read before starting your calls. read more

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Reading Friends Tips for Telephone Befriending

This resource contains tips and considerations for delivering Reading Friends over the phone. Please read through before starting your telephone befriending calls. read more

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Project Case Study Guidance

If you have a story to share, please tell us about it using the example questions in this resource as a guide. read more

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