Dear Donors,

We wanted to get in touch to say another huge thank you for your generosity in supporting the Whitley Wood playgroup. Thanks to the funding you provided the sessions are continuing successfully.  We’re currently on a break over the summer, but very much looking forward to getting started again in September. We are so grateful to everyone whose generosity meant that local families can continue to benefit from these sessions and to receive books to enjoy at home.

We’d also like to invite you all to an event we’ll be hosting at the University of Reading in the Autumn, where we’d love to tell you more about the work that we’re doing. We will give you an overview of the research which led to the project, talk about the sessions themselves, and some of the mothers and children who attended will also be there to share their experiences.   We'll also invite others who contributed to the project (Reading Libraries, community leaders) as well as other interested people who live and work in the area.  Thanks to the success of the session at Whitley Wood we’ve  been awarded funding to run similar sessions in other areas around Reading, and we’ll be able to tell you about these as well as our longer-term plans for the future. There will be refreshments and a chance to talk to others interested in and involved in the project in different ways.

If you’d be interested in attending it would be great if you could complete this form so that we can contact you directly, and to find the time that works best for most people.  If you have any other questions, please feel free to contact me on d.a.powell@reading.ac.uk.

Many thanks again for your support for the playgroup. I really hope we’ll have the opportunity to meet you at the event soon. 

Best wishes,

Daisy, Holly, Elli and Rinna

We've done it!

Amazing news - we've achieved (even exceeded) our target!  This is fantastic news - we'll now be able to run these sessions for a full additional year.  Any further funds we receive will mean we can continue to offer more sessions and more books to more families - so please don't let this news deter you from donating!  In the meantime, a huge thank you to our donors - we're so incredibly grateful to you for your generosity.