The outcomes of reading for pleasure and empowerment

Laura Venning, Evaluation and Impact Manager, The Reading Agency

About The Reading Agency

• We are a charity that works with people of all ages to:

• inspire more people to read more

• encourage them to share their enjoyment of reading

• celebrate the difference that reading makes to all our lives

About the reading outcomes framework project

• An outcomes framework that maps the impacts of reading for pleasure and empowerment

• An evaluation toolkit that provides advice about how to use the framework and tools to measure the impact of activity that encourages reading

Project parameters• Focused on the outcomes of reading for

pleasure and empowerment• reading for entertainment or self-cultivation, that

is done through choice

• Includes reading for all ages and audiences

• Includes reading all types of materials• fiction, non-fiction, digital materials, print materials, picture books,

comics, newspapers, audio books, listening to others read and shared reading

Steering group partners

Building the frameworkLiterature review

Draft framework

Consultation

Revised framework

Develop toolkit

Toolkit

Tools – personal outcomes

Evidence

Next steps• Publish the toolkit: www.readingagency.org.uk/

• Pilot the toolkit, evaluating one of our programmes

• Improve the measures, revise and refine the toolkit

• Encourage and support people to use it!

• Contact: laura.venning@readingagency.org.uk