Our Awards
We’re very proud to have had our work recognised by a number of local and national awards. Listed below is evidence of our growing achievements.
- The Unforgotten Coat, written by Frank Cottrell Boyce for The Reader Organisation/Our Read, wins Children’s Book category at Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis (German Children’s Literature Awards) 2013
- Winner of Growth Award, Social Enterprise Network Powerful Together Awards, September 2013
- Runner-up of Creativity and Healthy Environments Awards, Social Enterprise Network Powerful Together Awards, September 2013
- Jane Davis shortlisted for Social Business Leader at Ogunte Women’s Social Leadership Awards 2013, June 2013
- Winner of Third Sector Social Impact award and shortlisted for Large Charity of the Year award at Social Impact Awards, May 2013
- Eamee Boden, one of our Apprentices, finalist for Liverpool City Region Apprenticeship Awards, March 2013
- Merseyside Reader Volunteer Scheme Highly Commended in ‘Encouraging Health and Wellbeing’ category at the North West We Can Empowerment Awards, November 2012
- The Unforgotten Coat wins the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize 2012, October 2012
- Jane Davis highly commended in Liverpool Post Leaders Awards 2012, Third Sector Leader of the Year, October 2012
- EDGE Award: Get Into Reading Pilot Project for Older People with Dementia and Carers in Scotland wins award for Social Innovation, March 2012
- The Reader Organisation /Jane Davis named as one of Britain’s New Radicals, as chosen by NESTA and The Observer, February 2012
- Runner-up, Guardian Public Service Awards, Partnership Working category (Mersey Care Reader-in-Residence partnership), November 2011
- Jane Davis and Niall Gibney shortlisted for Morgan Foundation Entrepreneur Awards, Against All Odds Category, November 2011
- The Unforgotten Coat shortlisted for Costa Children’s Book Award, Costa Book Awards 2011, November 2011
- Get Into Reading shortlisted for Lemos & Crane PrisonerActionNet Awards 2011, recognising outstanding projects that strengthen prisoners’ and ex-offenders’ sense of personal identity, belonging, independence and relationships with other people, October 2011
- Nominated for Liverpool Mutual Homes (LMH) Unity Award for a Community Organisation, Merseyside Community Theatre, July 2011
- Jane Davis awarded MBE in Queen’s Birthday Honours, June 2011
- Get Into Reading runner-up, Lemos & Crane RISE Awards 2011, for excellence in improving the quality of life and well-being of mental health service users receiving support in the community, January 2011
- Winner at Morgan Foundation Entrepreneur Awards 2010, Best Entrepreneurial Charity or Social Enterprise in Liverpool, November 2010
- Liverpool Echo Pride of Merseyside Awards: Get Into Reading wins Education award, September 2010
- Winner at National Year of Reading ‘Reading Heroes’ Awards – Jane Davis in the Professional category and Get Into Reading/Wirral Community Shakespeare member Louise Jones in the Personal category (people whose personal effort to support reading has made a difference to others, or whose acquisition of reading skills in challenging circumstances has transformed their own lives, or that of another), December 2008
- The Reader Organisation wins Quentin Blake award; Art in the Park. This project aimed to deliver a 5-week summer holiday project that would target Looked After Children (LAC) between the ages of 12 and 16 living in Wirral, who had little, if any, access to rewarding and creative activities in their locality, 2008
- Shortlisted for NHS Centre for Involvement Awards for Involvement to Impact in Hospital Care (Get Into Reading Reader-in-Residence project at Mersey Care NHS Trust), 2008
- Finalist in Arts Council England fifth annual arts awards in the Inside, Outside and Online category (recognising people and organisations offering experiences of art in new and different environments), December 2008
- Get Into Reading Finalist in NHS Health and Social Awards (mental health category), 2006
