Update | Autumn/winter 2010 | 29
Take up the Challenge for 2011
The Reading Agency’s Six Book Challenge for less confident adult readers has had a record-breaking year. 13,500 registered for the incentive scheme in 2010 through libraries, adult education, colleges, family learning, prisons and workplaces – up 50 per cent on the previous year.
“Taking part in the Six Book Challenge has made a real difference to the lives of learners and tutors,” reports Marion Pymar, Service Manager at Dorset Adult Learning which, in partnership with Dorset Libraries, recruited 156 people, 86 of whom completed the Challenge. “For many learners this is the first time they have read not only one book but six! Learners have grown in confidence and broadened their horizons. Developing reading skills has also supported them to achieve their accredited learning goals.”
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Order materials now to join in the Six Book Challenge for 2011.
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Managers of volunteers undervalued and underfunded
A report, Valuing Volunteer Management Skills, commissioned by Skills – Third Sector, reveals the need for more training and development for managers of volunteers. It shows that nearly half of people who manage volunteers have not received any training that would help them in their work, despite the fact that volunteers are crucial to the Government’s Big Society.
The report canvassed opinion from over 1,000 third sector organisations. It identified that there is much good practice in volunteer management in England today, but also reveals that volunteer management remains undervalued and underfunded in many organisations, including those with the largest incomes.
Justin Davis Smith, chief executive of Volunteering England, comments: “Volunteer managers play a crucial role supporting the 17 million individuals who volunteer through an organisation each year. This report highlights the need for better access to training and development for volunteer managers so that the full benefits of volunteering to local communities can be realised.”
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News from Quick Reads
GALAXY® has teamed up with Quick Reads in a new partnership that will promote the books to millions of households on World Book Day, 3 March 2011. Ten new Quick Reads – a stellar line up of best-selling authors and household names – will be the focus of an advertising campaign.
“GALAXY® proudly supports...” will be included on the cover of every Quick Read (approximately half a million books) and on all point-of-sale and outreach materials, which are sent to 15,000 colleges, workplaces and libraries across the UK.
Quick Reads 2011 include books by well-known thriller writer, James Patterson; leading light of Irish novelists, Sheila O’Flanagan; rising star, Linwood Barclay; and ex-Python, Terry Jones. There’s also a laugh-out- loud comedy by Mike Gayle; a heart-rending tale of childhood sibling love by Lucy Cavendish; a shocking novel about a train journey going awry by Priya Basil; a crazy martial arts adventure by Benjamin Zephaniah; a powerful story of adoption gone wrong by Cathy Glass; and a true story of a footballing bad-lad-made- good, by Brighton & Hove Albion’s Charlie Oatway.
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