Free Books Campaign CIC

The majority of funds spent was used to continue building up the company, with the addition of running a number of events that will enable us to have a more immediate localised impact on our service users. M of the continued costs included paying for a domain and website, equipment, travel and meetings costs, marketing materials and inventory. This has benefitted our community in the following ways: ● We worked to get thousands of books out to people who couldn’t afford or access them across the UK and Ireland. Some of which were given directly from by us, or posted by a third party. A number of publishers also donated books and sent them to recipients on our behalf. ● Launch our partnership with TATE, in which we took people on monthly free trips to exhibitions ● Our website, marketing materials and social media helped us to spread awareness of our mission, which led to a number of schools, community centres, youth clubs and other community-based organisations receiving books from us for free. These books are given to people of all ages to keep. ● Additionally, we use our online presence to direct people to new and exciting literature by authors of colour. Part of our mission is to get people reading more books by underrepresented authors. We know that our community expands beyond those who can’t afford to purchase books. As a cultural education CIC it’s vital to us to share the titles that we recommend and help people find new books that they might enjoy and learn from. ● In this year we held our 3rd free books festival which sold out 3,000 free tickets to our community. Where people could come to enjoy free events, workshops, refreshments, networking and a chance to get some new books for free to take home. ● The number of donations increased this year. Overall we’ve donated around 10,000 books at this point in time. ● This year was also spent increasing partnerships and collaborations with grassroots organisations as well as large brands, so many meetings were held across the year to pitch and build relationships that enable us to continue providing for our community at no cost.