Bookbanks would love your help.
Here are some ways that you can.
Work with Bookbanks
Applications are now closed for the role of:
Bookbanks North East Regional Lead
Check back in for future opportunities.
Partner with Bookbanks
Do you work or volunteer with a food bank, and think we could be a good fit?
Building on the successful partnerships forged with our first 11 food banks, we are now embarking on an exciting new phase of growth.
We plan to partner with 30 food banks across the UK by 2030, increasing the number of books we give out to 5,000 each month, and giving the charity a presence in 1% of the country’s food banks.
The charity’s expansion strategy will see it forge partnerships with food banks in six regional hubs.
If you think your food bank could be one of our next partners, we’d love to hear from you - please email Emily.
You can find more about what we provide and what we need when partnering with a food bank HERE.
Volunteer with Bookbanks
We are always looking for volunteers who have a background in books and a passion for talking about and widening access to them, to help look after our Bookbanks stalls inside food banks.
Our next intake will be in the autumn, ready to start in November 2026. If you think this could be you, please fill in THIS FORM. We are immensely grateful for everyone’s enthusiastic support!
Interested in exploring the possibility of joining our Board? We are keen to hear from people with expertise in HR and/or food bank experience. If this is you, then please email our Chair, Carla, with an expression of interest.
Fundraise for Bookbanks
We rely on fundraising efforts from individuals and organisations in order to bring books to food banks and create spaces for conversation, inspiration and community.
If you’d like to fundraise for Bookbanks, we would be thrilled! Please email us and we’ll send you our goals and some ideas.
You can find our Just Giving page here.
Give to Bookbanks
We would welcome any financial donations to Bookbanks, to help us meet our aims to support our existing eleven sites and expand to partner with more food banks and reaching new communities throughout the UK.
Our grassroots structure means you’re making a real and immediate difference, using books to help change the story at food banks.
If you have books that you’d like to pass on, thank you so much for thinking of us. We are currently giving out around 1,500 books every month.
We currently have some space at Bb Manchester and Salford and would welcome donations of children’s books for all ages, especially YA, and cookbooks at both locations. Please ensure you email before dropping any books. Thanks to everyone’s incredible generosity, we are at capacity for books at our other partner food banks.
If you work for an organisation that is interested in making regular book donations, this would be wonderful! Please contact Emily here.
Give books to Bookbanks
As a young charity that launched in June 2024, we are extremely grateful to anyone who helps to raise our profile. This could be by following or posting about us on social media, by writing about us, by forwarding on our newsletter to some of your contacts or by simply telling your friends and colleagues about us. Thank you for helping us grow!