{"id":568,"date":"2025-07-24T02:02:05","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T02:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/readalong.org.au\/?page_id=568"},"modified":"2025-08-05T23:40:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T23:40:14","slug":"who-we-are","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/readalong.org.au\/index.php\/who-we-are\/","title":{"rendered":"Who we are"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"gbp-section gb-element-d29e0c0c\">\n<div class=\"gb-element-9fd91dd0\">\n<div class=\"gb-element-105a4ed6\">\n<h1 class=\"gb-text gbp-section__headline gb-text-42a4a6f3\">Who We Are<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"gb-text gbp-section__text gb-text-d2479489\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"hero-image-fit gb-element-ce941b64\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" class=\"gb-media-b2dda842\" title=\"hero-imagination-book-read-along\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/readalong.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/hero-read-along-1920x1080px.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/readalong.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/hero-read-along-1920x1080px.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/readalong.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/hero-read-along-1920x1080px-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/readalong.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/hero-read-along-1920x1080px-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/readalong.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/hero-read-along-1920x1080px-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/readalong.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/hero-read-along-1920x1080px-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"gbp-section gb-element-042eabdf\">\n<div class=\"gbp-section__inner gb-element-fe29b661\">\n<div class=\"gb-element-092f1586\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Who we are<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read Along Mums and Dads is based in Castlemaine, Australia. Established fourteen years ago by the Friends of Castlemaine Library, the program is now sponsored by Castlemaine Rotary, and is made possible by the Victorian Legal Services Board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><sub>Our new focus<\/sub><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We aim to support the establishment of similar programs within other prison sites across Victoria through our <a href=\"https:\/\/readalong.org.au\/index.php\/extending-the-reach\/\"><strong>Extending the Reach project<\/strong>.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We would love you to be involved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2018<em><em><em>My kids have got fantastic books through this program \u2013 it\u2019s been especially good sending them books about our culture and connection to country, like it\u2019s helped us talk together about how important that is understanding who we are.<\/em><\/em>\u2018\u2019<\/em><br><sub> Read Along Mums participant, quoted with permission.<\/sub><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who We Are Who we are Read Along Mums and Dads is based in Castlemaine, Australia. Established fourteen years ago by the Friends of Castlemaine Library, the program is now sponsored by Castlemaine Rotary, and is made possible by the Victorian Legal Services Board. Our new focus We aim to support the establishment of similar &#8230; <a title=\"Who we are\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/readalong.org.au\/index.php\/who-we-are\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Who we are\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-568","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/readalong.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/readalong.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/readalong.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readalong.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readalong.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/readalong.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":691,"href":"https:\/\/readalong.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/568\/revisions\/691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/readalong.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}