GET Free Books Rochdale

GET Free Books Rochdale Our mission is to make reading free and available to all through our FREE Bookshops! Our mission is to make reading free and available to all.

At the Global Educational Trust we believe that the ability to read is the cornerstone of educational success and a love of reading will last a life-time yet almost 1 billion people entered the 21st Century unable to read a book or sign their own name. In the UK:
• 1 in 6 adults have issues with literacy
• 1 in 3 parents cannot read to their children.
• 3.87 million children do not own a single bo

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• 4 million children live in poverty

At the Global Educational Trust, we believe that education and literacy skills help individuals lead a happy and successful life, and needless to say, provide the opportunity for people to become leaders, pioneers and visionaries which is ultimately beneficial to us all. We aim to make reading free and available to all by distributing FREE Books into society. As a registered charity we rely on the kindness and generosity of people like you. Registered Charity No. 1144969

12/10/2024
09/05/2024

This week is Deafness Awareness Week.

Books are for everyone, whether they are Hardback, Paperback, E Books, Large Print, Somewhere between, Read Along, Audio book or Braille. They inspire us and take us on our adventures where we can do anything!

If you can't see the format of book you are looking for (except E Books) in any of our shops please just ask as you never know what we might have and also pop along and support your local library and ask them as they might be able to get in what you are looking for.

Global Educational Trust/GET Free Books (Bishop Auckland)

08/12/2023

Today is our 12th anniversary of becoming a charity!!!

The Global Educational Trust/GET Free Books started from humble beginnings with just Free Bookstalls. Then after a friend of our founder could not get a tenant we said we could help by becoming a temporary tenant and our first Free Bookshop was born.

Over the years we have had many bookshops until a more permanent tenant is found, we often bounce around the same town as long as we can but sadly sometimes we have to go into storage while we are waiting to comeback, like Bishop Auckland, Ipswich and Redcar but we do intend to come back, even locations where we haven't had an open shop for years. We have not forgotten you.

Our shops have become valued in any community they are in, and it is all due to the dedication of all of our wonderful volunteers helping our shops become inviting to all. We could not do this without them. This next year for the first time we are also for the first time heading to our founder's own community after 12 years of helping others around the UK.

These past few years we have rehomed over a million books every year. We never thought it was possible to have such an impact with just a few shops and we have all of you to thank for that. You have helped all these books from going to landfill, reduced local carbon footprint and recycling them the proper way while enriching people's lives.

Thank you all, you are amazing

Global Educational Trust/GET Free Books

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