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Reading and health
One in six adults in Britain will suffer from mental health problems. Recent research from The King's Fund indicates that mental illness in England cost £50 billion in 2007. Almost half, £22.5 billion, represents money spent on direct NHS and social care services to support people with mental disorders. The remainder represents the estimated cost to the economy of lost earnings. However, recent research has found that is potential to help more people achieve better mental health through early detection and treatment.
How reading can support local authority targets
We have been looking at how our projects and the reading services that libraries run support local authority performance, national indicators and Local Area Agreement targets.
Training
We run training courses related to the projects that we run. We will publish details of forthcoming training events on these pages. For details about our regular online training courses see TRF and The Vital Link websites.
Conferences
It's good to talk. It allows us to discuss new ideas and thinking and share information about the latest practices in reading. We organise several discussions and conferences each year, sometimes on our own but more frequently in partnership with other organisations.
Research
The more we know about the impact that reading has on people's lives, and how it's changing with the advent of new technology, the better we can focus our actions. To get more reading to more people we need to understand readers better - why, what and how they read and what's standing in the way of reading more and differently. We need to be developing new thinking and experimenting with new approaches.
New thinking
We place great value on new thinking - whether it takes the form of research, discussion, events or training and learning. We believe that it is very important to find out about reading, understand readers and appreciate how to serve them better. And we want to share our knowledge and learn from others working in the field.