Over the years Book Relief UK has supported literacy both locally, nationally and overseas.

 

In the past three years we have provided more than £35,000 in grants.This year we are already on track to give up to £25,000

 

We aim to give more than 50% of our grants to local libraries, hospitals and schools. We mostly support libraries with school holiday literacy activities. We support schools with a range of literacy initiatives, including funding for school libraries. We also support hospitals, nursery schools and mental health organizations with their literacy projects, which can be very varied in form.

 

We also support adult literacy initiatives. For example, Read Easy in North Devon and Cumbria, an outreach charity seeking to promote adult literacy. We also help support The Shannon Trust which directs literacy projects at prisoners in particular. 

 

We have supported several overseas charities: Books 2 Africa, which donates books and computers to various projects in Africa, and  Empower the Gambia, which maintains a number of school libraries in that country, and a strong local literacy initiative in Uganda empowering working women called Sustain me. We also donate to a local charity; Edukid, who work to provide educational opportunities for many abroad who struggle to access an education.

 

 

 

We have also worked with Bideford food banks, giving free books to families who use the banks.

 

A full list of our recipients is: 

 

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