30/07/2024
We have Fantastic News!!!
High Wycombe you have not been forgotten and we have a new home and we are our way back!!!
We are pleased to announce that the Global Educational Trust, also known as GET Free Books is coming back to High Wycombe in the next few weeks and we desperately need your help as we would like to open at 20 Octogen Parade near Eden,Shopping Centre hopefully by the end of August.
The Global Educational Trust is a charity that usually has about 20 Free Bookshops around the UK. We have had shops in Barnet, Wandsworth, Slough and many other towns and cities across the UK. Each one has become a vital resource for anybody who loves to read in the community it is in.
What can a FREE Bookshop do for your community?
At the Global Educational Trust (GET Free Books) We move into an empty shop in your community and bring with us a large mixed selection of preloved books and we ask for volunteers to come and help us.
In the beginning a lot of our shops start out with boxes of books and we ask for Books, Audio books, DVDs, CDs and Jigsaws. We also accept donations of bookcases and furniture to put the books on. When they come in we sort the Books into categories and put them back onto the shop floor for you to browse through.
You can take a limited amount of items home for free per day but if you wish to you can leave a donation in the pot, but you don't have to. Over time as your community donates books they no longer need and the selection will increase as time goes on filling the shop up.
We have found that because books are not recycled and go into landfill because of the glue in their spines we help reduce landfill and the carbon footprint in your area. We prefer recycling books the proper way, in their original format where they can still be enjoyed the way they were meant to be.
Having access to free books can benefit education, literacy and being able to escape into another world within a book can help relieve stress and improve mental wellbeing and all in the comfort within your own home.
How you can help.
We desperately need volunteers and as soon as we are set up and have enough volunteers to open, and we can start with as little as just 2 volunteers, we will be ready to go. The more volunteers we have, the more hours we can open.
If you wish to become a volunteer with us you can volunteer for whatever length of time suits you. You can come in for an hour, half a day or several days during the week.
Our shop in High Wycombe is waiting for you to come and help it become a vital resource in the area and show you what we can do together to help our community.
If you are interested please email [email protected] and put High Wycombe Volunteer in the header. High Wycombe Furniture for furniture and Book donations High Wycombe Books donation.
Thank you so much with helping us with our next part of our adventures within Free Books.
Global Educational Trust, GET Free Books
