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Reading Hack Seminars June 2016
Claire Styles - TRA
Chris Myhill – Gateshead
Sue Ball - Staffordshire
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Reading Hack is…
A programme led by young people aged 13 to 24 who do reading activities and volunteering, called hacks, to gain skills and experience.
A hack is “a clever solution to a tricky problem. To hack is to modify or change something in an extraordinary way” [Urban Dictionary, 2009].
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Supports corporate objectives
• Community engagement and youth voice
• Volunteering/social action (Step Up to Serve)
• Supports health and wellbeing
• Pre-employment skills
• Supports reading enjoyment
• Increased engagement with the library
• Supports SCL Universal Offers and Library Journey
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Reading Hack in 2015/16
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Achievements in 2015/16
Across the 53 pilot authorities:
• 5,686 YP participated as Reading Hackers
• 9,619 other YP came to events
• 1,800 Reading Hack events in 621 libraries
• 26% of events in areas of social deprivation
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Developing volunteering roles Roles supporting younger children: • Reading buddies (Tower Hamlets & Lancashire) • Storytime (Northumberland) • Homework clubs (Brent) • Chatterbooks (Hertfordshire) • Young Arts Award supporters esp for SRC (Dorset) • Gaming & coding - code clubs, minecraft, Wii
(Manchester) • Games – lego and board games (Birmingham) • Storytelling roles (Birmingham)
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Developing volunteering roles Supporting other young people:
• Writing reviews (Birmingham)
• Festival volunteers – (Leeds, Glouc)
• Reading Hack ambassadors – in schools, for manga clubs (Staffs, Norfolk)
• Digital buddies – with 3D printers etc (Manchester)
• Stock selection – online & in stores (Staffs, Leeds)
• Website advisors
• Writing groups (Northumberland)
• Steering group/ Board roles (York)
• Mentoring and leading other volunteers (Notts)
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Developing volunteering roles
Supporting older people:
• Digital buddies – e.g. help with Freedom Pass renewals (Tower Hamlets, Northumberland)
• Supporting adult events - helping technicians etc (Brent)
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Developing volunteering roles
Supporting the library service:
• Shadowing library authority trust boards (York)
• Interviewing staff (Dorset)
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Evaluation: Young people said:
• 76% of YP said they have gained new skills, including planning, creativity and leadership.
• 71% of YP felt that Reading Hack had a highly positive impact on their confidence.
• 65% agreed that their involvement in Reading Hack had made them want to read more.
• 84% were encouraged to continue volunteering (in libraries and local community
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Libraries said that Reading Hack:
• Develops a more cohesive (branded) offer
• Helped them reach more young people
• Made their libraries more appealing and fun
• Highlighted to young people the different opportunities that libraries offer
• Normalised youth-led activity, with young people having more of a say in the programme
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Challenges
• Staff restructuring and changes – capacity
• Seeing Reading Hack as integrating into existing work, rather than adding workload
• Wide age range – particularly where a coordinating role for older YP has not been established
• Balancing driving momentum of the programme with being youth-co-produced
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Reading Hack in 2016/17 Delivering in 2016/17:
• Support the pilot authorities as a Learning Group
• Roll out Reading Hack across the country
• Develop with schools and colleges
Objectives:
• Work with SCL and ASCEL to integrate further into the URO and Children’s Library Journey
• Build the YP website
• Develop new partnerships
• Develop a stronger YP voice and ownership
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Reading Hack and Reading Well for YP
• Reading Hack website is the YP-facing platform for Shelf Help YP mental health programme
• Elsevier-funded Lewisham pilot with YP to develop Shelf Help ‘hacks’
• YP festival of reading in October, developed with young advisors across Reading Well and Reading Hack
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Content engagement
• Feature hacks
• Competitions and prizes
• Project fund and Call for Ideas
• Reading Hack artists in residence
• Young people – editors, in-residence
• Festival of reading
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The Popcorn Sessions
Every month we invite reading groups to interview an author of a new YA fiction title. Our publisher friends provide the books, we provide the popcorn and your group get the chance to interview an author for the Reading Hack website.
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Project fund
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The Reading Hack website
-Find hack activities to do or create their own
-Set up groups and plan hacks together
-Record what they’re doing – and the skills they gain – to put on their CV
-Download a skills letter for their CV and count up their volunteering hours
-Link with activity that DofE and Arts Award have recognised
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Reading Hack Does #LovetoRead
Purpose: • Celebrate YP reading and writing as part of #LovetoRead • Encourage more young people to get involved • Highlight range of YP reading offers Will include: • Flagship event on 24th October: Manchester Central Library • 8 other author roadshows • Hack challenge videos by authors and vloggers • Toolkit ideas in the main SCL #LovtoRead toolkit going out
to libraries in September.
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Thank you!