Criminal justice

View from our funder

How the team from Spirit of 2012 experiences Reading Rooms in Beyond the walls.Read more

View from a Beyond the walls participant

Find out what how one participant experiences Reading Rooms Beyond the wallsRead more

Beyond the walls

Working with young adults in the criminal justice systemRead more

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Our first peer volunteers from Beyond the Walls

Three young people complete their Reading Rooms training
Two Children's Laureates to visit Verbal

We are delighted to welcome Lauren Child and Sarah Crossan
The Third Space recruiting 2nd intake of participants

A 26 week programme for young adults
Poetry at the Matt Talbot Youth Centre

Inspiring young adults with stories and poems

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Reading Rooms

Programme area 1 - Reading Rooms
Mission and vision

Find out what Verbal does
What we do

Verbal is committed to bringing the benefits of literature & the language arts to the heart of our communities - through our own stories and the stories of others.
Sinead Devine

Project officer for older people
Contact us

Contact details for Verbal
Andrea Doran

Director of programming
History

A short history of the Verbal building
The Third Space

A cross-community and cross-border creative programme for marginalised and disadvantaged young people, delivered in partnership with Extern
James Kerr

Chief executive
Aoife Lyons

Psychology Manager