"Pay What You Like" Book Sale, for Calais refugee camp

Posted by Annabel Gregory on September 16, 2015 at 4:33pm in Single Events

Big Green Bookshop have been raising money and collecting books to donate to the "Jungle Library" in the Calais refugee camp.

So far, we've raised over £2,500 and we have a ton load of books kindly donated by people from all over the country. We're still getting around twenty parcels a day with books to take to Calais.

Here are three things;

We need help sorting the books out. If you are free tomorrow (Thursday) and can spare an hour or two, please get in touch. 020 8881 6767.
We spoke to Mary Jones, the person looking after the Library and she is currently in the position where she's got plenty of fiction and kids books (in English) at the library. A lot of what's been donated is fiction and kids stuff, so we suggested to her that we have a mammoth sale of all the second hand stuff we've got and add that to the money that we're raising for her. She LOVED this idea, so we are having a....

PAY WHAT YOU LIKE ON ALL OUR SECOND HAND BOOKS

>From Friday 18th September until Sunday 20th September

you can choose up to 6 books and pay as little as 1p for each (YOU MONSTER). You could pay a tenner for each too, but that's up to you.
We have well over 3,000 secondhand books here all looking to go to good homes.
We're hoping for sunny few days so that we can get the tables and boxes outside.

3. I'm going to Calais on Monday 21st September to deliver the books we have and also to meet Mary and to give her some dosh. We've persuaded the lovely people at ZIPCAR to let us have a van, and we've (I think) persuaded the BBC to let us borrow a camera, so we can film our journey. Neither Tim or I drive, but the lovely Mark White, aka MarkyMarket is very kindly giving up his time and is going to help me get the books to Calais.

This is all very exciting and I can't wait to meet Mary. Our aim is for this not to be a one-off thing. We'd like to keep our link with the library in Calais and continue to work with Mary to ensure that at the very least, there is always a well stocked library at the camp.

Thank you.

Simon at Big Green Bookshop

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