As we are having a lot of enquiries about our work in Ghana, I thought I’d put together a summary of our approach and work so far. If you have …read more

Our most recent addition to the Reading Spots family, the Tease Community Library (or shared education centre) is now open! The meaning of ‘Tease’ in Twi (the main language in …read more

This essay was submitted in Feburary 2018 as part of an MA in Education and International Development at UCL. I thought I’d share it in case any participants of the …read more

I’ve decided to start writing a little more often so as to try and share some of the stories and insights of the amazing people and places of my second …read more

The evening began with an electrifying performance from Marley Chambers on the drums; Mr Wilson was lost for words after. Preceding the dinner, we had a short talk from Miss Davison during …read more

Another book drive, another day. The February-edition Reading Spots book drive was a roaring success! In total 60 boxes were sent over, roughly equivalent to 5,000 books. We could not …read more

“I am now just over three weeks away from the Half Marathon so my training is really ramping up. Last weekend, I ran a 7.2km inter county cross-country fixture for …read more

Ed Warren is one of our first pupil ambassadors, who has been actively involved in the charity since its creation in 2015 – he is shortly going to return to Ghana to …read more

The Messiah International School has housed a library open to the entire community since December 2015. In the future we hope to expand the library and enable other schools to …read more

Given the number of enquiries that we have had regarding book donations, and our ever-expanding number of community-led libraries in Ghana, we have decided to hold another book drive from …read more

On Saturday 24th February, we have our third annual fundraising dinner in the Brighton College dining room, with pre-dinner drinks in the Simon Smith Café from 7pm. The cost of the tickets …read more

Again, very delayed, but is the pupils’ blog post following their time spent at the RAMSCO international school in Donkorkrom, Eastern region of Ghana.  After a ferry trip across the …read more

This is quite delayed due to a lack of wifi, but this was the pupil teams’ reflection after the ASA/BC ‘Be the Change’ Day After a long journey the previous …read more

I’ve decided to start sharing some of my experiences in this field, as there is much advice that I think that I would have benefited from before I started, and the …read more

Here are the first nominations sent in for books to be put in our ‘African Top 50’ collection. The girls at the African Science Academy in Tema are completing a …read more

During October half-term, pupils on our online course introducing pupils to key themes in international development were challenged to write a 500-word blog post with a choice of titles. The first …read more

A task completed in a community service session with girls at ASA on 31st October The concept of Reading Spots is very fluid. As a charity we basically aim to …read more

This story was written with Joseph Edward Addae (known as”Prof”). Prof is an 11 year old who lives in Abofour in the Ashanti region of Ghana. He loves learning and creating as much …read more

October 2017  Adult (African): The River Between by Thiong’o “The River Between” by Thiong’o – Book Review Non-Fiction (African): Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers by Appiah http://eduspots.org/should-we-strive-to-be-appiahs-cosmopolitans-a-review-of-cosmopolitanism-ethics-in-a-world-of-strangers/ Junior High Fiction (African): …read more

These are the books of the month for September 2017. If you have a suggested book for future months, do email the title and a short review to contact@readingspots.org   Adult (African): …read more

The ideas here are all thanks to the readers in the Abofour Book Club, initially established by Gloria Addae, and now led by Mr Cofie. I hope that we can …read more