Over the years BookReliefUK has supported literacy both home and abroad. Much of this is local to North Devon. Over the past two years we have donated £11,250
Read Easy are an outreach charity seeking to promote adult literacy. On their website you can volunteer to be a reading coach and find out more about what is being done in North Devon. We have donated £1400 to them in the last two years.
We help support The Shannon Trust which directs literacy projects at prisoners in particular. Last year we were able to donate £1000 and will do again this year.
We have given £1500 to two overseas charities: Books 2 Africa, and Empower the Gambia, which maintains a number of school libraries in that country.
We give annual donations to the following local libraries and schools to help support literacy and school holiday library activities:
East the Water Primary School
Bluecoats Primary School
Great Torrington Secondary School
Abbotsham Primary School
Appledore School
Torrington Library
Northam Library
Bideford and Appledore libraries
We also work with Bideford food bank giving free books to families who use the bank.