We are hosting this event in London in partnership with the Mental Health Foundation, which is aimed at engaging health professionals, and writers and publishers with our cause.

“This group could save people's lives.”

Occupational Therapist working in a mental health unit

Reading has a remarkable power: it expands our worlds; it gives us new ways of expressing feeling and new ways of understanding. The Reader Organisation’s nationally recognised Get Into Reading project runs more than 170 weekly read-aloud groups across the UK in libraries, schools, GP surgeries, hospitals, care homes and workplaces, and has been working in London since January 2009.

At the event you will have a chance to hear from, and talk to:

• Dr Andrew McCulloch, Chief Executive of the Mental Health Foundation
• Jane Davis, Director of The Reader Organisation
• Dr David Fearnley, Medical Director, Mersey Care NHS Trust, RCPsych Psychiatrist of the Year 2009
• Lindsey Dyer, Director of Service Users and Carers, Mersey Care NHS Trust

“Wellbeing and good mental health come from connecting with other people – family, friends or colleagues – and from taking part in something worthwhile. Get Into Reading provides both of these, as well as the sheer pleasure of the book.  Reading aloud, or listening to someone read aloud, is a relationship-building shared experience.”

Professor Louis Appleby, National Director for Mental Health 

If you would like to learn how you and your organisation can benefit from the power of shared reading by developing a Get Into Reading scheme, please come along to ‘The Reading Cure’ and find out more. To reserve your place, please contact Penny Markell.