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and partially sighted people worldwide.
Torch Book Groups
This is another exciting new venture for the Torch Trust. The vision is for people who are blind and partially sighted and who enjoy reading good Christian literature to be able to meet together and discuss a book, which they have all read beforehand; and we hope as you read this page you too will catch the vision.
Why start a Christian Book Group for people who are blind or partially sighted?
Here are three good reasons:
- Book groups or reading circles have had something of a renaissance recently. Local libraries run them, specific interest groups run them, churches run them, publishers run them. So let’s make this popular activity available to people who are blind and partially sighted.
- People with shared interests gravitate towards each other and socialize naturally. Christians have enjoyed fellowshipping since the early church and when you then add the activity of reading the same book, you have a group of people with significant shared interests.
- Torch can provide Christian books in an accessible format for people who are blind and partially sighted, enabling them to participate in an activity, which promotes both Christian fellowship and Christian reading.
Not everyone is a reader. However, recent research by the RNIB has shown that people who are on the sight-loss journey often become more enthusiastic readers. Many of our Library borrowers have said that books become companions.
So to share this interest, which may be an increasingly important part of a blind or partially sighted person’s life, we can get together in Book Groups, where fellowship is on the agenda as well as books and of course a nice cuppa and some cake! Please contact one of Torch’s librarians for a Torch Book Group Information pack. An ABC Guide to Starting a Book Group can be found here.