GET Free Books Welwyn Garden City

11/10/2024

09/05/2024

This week is Deafness Awareness Week.

Books are for everyone, whether they are Hardback, Paperback, E Books, Large Print, Somewhere between, Read Along, Audio book or Braille. They inspire us and take us on our adventures where we can do anything!

If you can't see the format of book you are looking for (except E Books) in any of our shops please just ask as you never know what we might have and also pop along and support your local library and ask them as they might be able to get in what you are looking for.

Global Educational Trust/GET Free Books (Bishop Auckland)

08/12/2023

Today is our 12th anniversary of becoming a charity!!!

The Global Educational Trust/GET Free Books started from humble beginnings with just Free Bookstalls. Then after a friend of our founder could not get a tenant we said we could help by becoming a temporary tenant and our first Free Bookshop was born.

Over the years we have had many bookshops until a more permanent tenant is found, we often bounce around the same town as long as we can but sadly sometimes we have to go into storage while we are waiting to comeback, like Bishop Auckland, Ipswich and Redcar but we do intend to come back, even locations where we haven't had an open shop for years. We have not forgotten you.

Our shops have become valued in any community they are in, and it is all due to the dedication of all of our wonderful volunteers helping our shops become inviting to all. We could not do this without them. This next year for the first time we are also for the first time heading to our founder's own community after 12 years of helping others around the UK.

These past few years we have rehomed over a million books every year. We never thought it was possible to have such an impact with just a few shops and we have all of you to thank for that. You have helped all these books from going to landfill, reduced local carbon footprint and recycling them the proper way while enriching people's lives.

Thank you all, you are amazing

Global Educational Trust/GET Free Books

18/09/2023

We are looking to the future and wish to improve our customer service/interaction with many of our shops that need a little help.

So if you are one of our volunteers please can you send this page a private message to either the page to your own shop or to our central shops page. We keep an eye on them all for any new messages. In the message just let us know which shop you volunteer with.

https://www.facebook.com/GETfreeBookshopsGlobalEducationalTrust

This is just so that we can help keep people informed if you are unable to open because of lack of volunteers, a weather related closure or if there is anything else you wish to pass on and liaise about the opening times. Also if we get a message and we need to contact you, it would help speed everything up.

If you wish to become a volunteer with GET Free Books/Global Educational Trust, please drop by your own shop or send us an email to [email protected] with the shop you wish to volunteer in the header as well as the word volunteer. Most of our shops need more volunteers and we are still looking for volunteers for our new shops in Chelmsley Wood and Welwyn Garden City.

Thank you ever so much, we do really appreciate all the great work you do.

Global Educational Trust/GET Free Books

Our mission is to make reading free and available to all through our FREE Bookshops!

12/08/2023

We are pleased to announce that the Global Educational Trust, also known as GET Free Books is coming to Welwyn Garden City and we need your help!

The Global Educational Trust is a charity that usually has about 20 Free Bookshops around the UK. We have had a shop in Luton and we currently have shops in Slough, Wandsworth and many other towns and cities. Each once has become a vital resource for anybody who loves to read in the community it is in.

What can a FREE Bookshop do for your community?

At the Global Educational Trust (GET Free Books) We move into an empty shop in your community and bring with us a large mixed selection of preloved books and then we ask for volunteers to come and help us.

In the beginning a lot of our shops start out with boxes of books and we ask for Books, Audio books, DVDs, CDs and Jigsaws. We also accept donations of bookcases and furniture to put the books on. When they come in we sort the Books into categories and put them back onto the shop floor for you to browse through.

You can take a limited amount of items home for free per day but if you wish to you can leave a donation in the pot, but you don't have to. Over time as your community donates books they no longer need and the selection will increase as time goes on filling the shop up.

We have found that because books are not recycled and go into landfill because of the glue in their spines we help reduce landfill and the carbon footprint in your area. We prefer recycling books the proper way, in their original format where they can still be enjoyed the way they were meant to be.

Having access to free books can benefit education, literacy and being able to escape into another world within a book can help relieve stress and improve mental wellbeing and all in the comfort within your own home.

How you can help.

We desperately need volunteers and as soon as we are set up and have enough volunteers to open, and we can start with as little as just 2 volunteers, we will be ready to go. If you wish to become a volunteer with us you can volunteer for whatever length of time suits you. You can come in for an hour, half a day or several days during the week. Our shop in Welwyn Garden City is waiting for you to come and help it become a vital resource in the area and show you what we can do together to help our community.

If you are interested please email [email protected] and put Welwyn Volunteer in the header. Furniture is Welwyn Furniture and Book donations Welwyn Books donation.

Thank you so much with helping us with our next part of our adventures within Free Books.

Global Educational Trust /GET Free Books