#BuyShelterABook - an update.

On Monday we launched our Christmas Campaign. 

#BuyShelterABook

The idea is to raise as much money as we can, so that we can send books to Shelter, to help the people they support have a better time this year. Info HERE.

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If you want to donate to #BuyShelterABook,

please PayPal whatever you like to biggreenbookshop@hotmail.com (using family & friends),

and add the word “SHELTER” in the notes.

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Last year we did something similar and you lot helped us raise £2,500 !!

This is what £2,500 worth of books looks like. 

These were posted off to the 12 hubs that Shelter has around the UK. We've been working closely with these hubs, so that we know the kind of books that they'd like. 

So, for example, the Merseyside hub supports a number older veterans and they'd like some  military history / war fiction and local history books for the Liverpool / Merseyside area.

And the hub in Bristol is looking for graphic novels and some books in Somali, Polish and Romanian. 

Most of the hubs are looking for kids books.

We want to make sure that we send appropriate titles to each of the hubs, so that they get the most out of them. 

Everyone likes a target, so i'm introducing The SHELTOMETER!

This will give you a running target of how much has been raised (including the £250 we're donating to the campaign). So far, after two days, you've helped raise around £800!

THIS IS AFTER DAY 2

I've set an ambitious target of £3,000, so we'll just have to see. 

I'll try and do an update every day or two. 

I'm also in the process of sorting out a PO Box at my local post office, if people want to donate books (I shall be bothering publishers shamelessly once this is sorted out). 

We only have a small flat, so getting books delivered here isn't the best idea!

Once I get the PO address, i'll let you know. 

PLEASE, can you share this with as many people as you can!