Donate Your Pre-loved Books to Local Schoolkids

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Children's Book Project will deliver them to three primary schools

School children in Hammersmith with the donated books

February 24, 2025

The Children’s Book Project, a charity founded by Hammersmith resident Liberty Venn, is asking families to donate pre-loved books to be distributed to local children.

The charity’s aim is ”to get more books into the hands of more children”.

It recently received a £3,000 grant from Hammersmith United Charities, which it is using to deliver books to around 1,200 children at three primary schools - Brackenbury, Flora Gardens and Wormholt Park.

Every child in the three local schools will be able to choose up to six books to take home and keep.

Liberty says, “All children should be able to access a book without the cost being a barrier and so we are incredibly excited to be supported by Hammersmith United Charities and expand our work in the borough.”

Liberty Venn

As well as fun pop up libraries and reading events in schools, the project also donates boxes of books to doctors’ surgeries and prisons, offering prisoners the chance to connect to their children by sending them books.

Liberty says: “In the course of my work with literacy-oriented charities and with children’s publishers, I became aware of the positive role that early access to books plays in children’s development and in their outcomes.

“Children become immersed in stories and with characters; they enjoy themselves and, without realising, their literacy improves.”

The Children’s Book Project accepts both fiction and non-fiction books suitable for children, but says it can’t accept:

Old or damaged books
Encyclopaedias, textbooks, revision books or religious texts
DVDs or CDs
Ex-library or reading scheme books

If you’d like to donate pre-loved books, you can drop them off at Bute House Preparatory School for Girls in Brook Green or Winkworth estate agents’ offices at 190 Fulham Palace Road, 129 Shepherd’s Bush Road or in Fulham at 40 New Kings Road.

The charity is also looking for volunteers to help in a variety of ways, from sorting books to promoting its work on social media. Find out more and register your details here.

 

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