Charities
Once a campaign is complete and books are no longer required, we can donate them free of charge to charity. We currently work with Barnardo’s, Bang Up Books and The Doorstep Library.
For over 150 years, we’ve been here for children and young people who need us most – bringing love, care and hope into their lives and giving them a place where they feel they belong.
We make sure children and young people feel safer, happier, healthier and more hopeful, by directly supporting them and their families with specialist services, raising awareness and campaigning to change things for the better.
Bang Up Books distributes brand new books to 114 prisons across England & Wales and since April 2020 we have distributed over 150,000 books. These books are largely recent releases, donated by publishers from their excess stock. They cover all major genres, including fiction, sport, self-help, foreign language, children’s, and history.
Feedback on the books has been brilliant. Our prisons have let us know that they provide a helpful supplement to library offerings, to establish reading groups, to develop wing libraries, to be read to families on visits, or even to support ‘first night book schemes’ at a particularly vulnerable point in a prisoners journey. This supports rehabilitation, mental health, connection and developing a reading culture throughout the prison.
Doorstep Library is a community-focused literacy charity dedicated to bringing the magic of books and the joy of reading directly into the homes of children who need our support. With one in four 11-year-olds leaving primary school unable to read or write properly, we recruit and train in-person and online reading volunteers to visit under-resourced areas of London and help introduce young children (aged 0-11 years) to the pleasure and benefits of reading.
Our impact is long-lasting. For us, the ‘happy ever after’ is when we know the power of literacy and the joy of reading are helping a child change their own story for good. Every story shared is a story changed.