the festival and the community

In 2012 the Stratford Literary Festival will be involved in four important community initiatives.

With Age UK Warwickshire, we are spearheading an intergenerational This is Your Life Project whereby young people will catalogue the lives of an elderly relative and present them with their life story in a specially made book created just for them. We will be running this programme through schools, but please email us at info@stratfordliteraryfestival.co.uk if you would like to be involved.

With Warwickshire County Council Adult & Community Learning Service, we have been holding a series of reading groups with a difference - called Rave Reads - for adults including parents who want to help their children discover the joy of books and reading.Rave reads will be the antidote to the traditional reading group!

Email the Literary Festival here for ideas on livening up your book group.

We are working with the ground-breaking charity Kissing it Better on a project called Telling Tales -  with a team of volunteers reading to older people in residential care in Stratford, reminding them of much loved poems and stories.

We are also working with Age UK Warwickshire and the Alzheimer's Society creating workshops for those weith dementia.