GET Free Books Basildon

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)

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