Rotary Club of The Studios of Elstree and Borehamwood Book Swap
Charity number: EC214456
Website: www.studio-elstreeandborehamwoodrotary.org.uk
Description:
The Rotary Club of The Studios of Elstree and Borehamwood had the idea to promote reading in the community, by organising a Book Swap scheme at Borehamwood and Elstree railway station. This is in line with one of the core goals of the International Rotary Club to promote literacy around the world.
The Book Swap was launched on 7/9/19 and offers a selection of books for people to borrow from the shelf, read on their journey and return to swap for another. This encourages people passing through our railway station, bus passengers and all other members of the public, to enjoy a good book, free of charge. We will be providing a selection of books on the main shelf in the ticket hall and more books in the waiting room on Platform 1.
To ensure the scheme has a constant turnover of books we need to keep collecting. We have bought four book donation boxes located at:
Elstree and Borehamwood railway station - next to the ticket hall bookshelf
96 Shenley Road - at the far end of the café area
Morrisons, Sterling Corner ? by the checkout tills
Fairway Hall ? in the reception area
These locations are ideal for members of the public to use to donate their unwanted books and we thank them all for readily agreeing to support our scheme in this way.
All the work carried out to initiate and develop the scheme, and the ongoing maintenance, has and continues to be carried out on a voluntary basis.
In the first 6 months we have seen 3,000 donated books pass through the scheme. We always receive thanks from Book Swap users when we regularly restock the shelves to keep them full of a wide variety of titles.
Happy reading....