What a beautiful prison mural painted by Justin Rollins, with Give a Book written as one of the titles on the bookcase! 🎨📚 We love working with Justin, and many of our prison reading groups have enjoyed discussions about his book 'The Lost Boyz: A Dark Side of Grafitti'. Waterside Press

📚 Another brilliant Store Day - with an abundance of amazing volunteers! We packed 60 boxes of books for our projects Books in the Nick & Books for First Nighters. Huge thanks to the teams from @virginmedianews.bsky.social & Danone, and for all the wonderful book donations. 💛 #StoreDay

📚 Give a Book is searching for a brilliant Charity Administrator to keep our small but mighty team running smoothly - a perfect role for someone who loves organisation, purpose, and making a real impact. To find out more check out the full job spec - giveabook.org.uk/support-us/c...

This Black History Month, we’re celebrating books by Black British authors, favourites in our reading projects. These books reach: ✨ Prison reading groups ✨ Books in the Nick & Books for First Nighters ✨ Family Days ✨ Raising Readers @kitdewaal.com @malorieblackman.bsky.social @dapsdraws.bsky.social

☀️ 'This month the report comes from HMP Wandsworth where one of the PRG groups read Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun. We talked a lot about where feelings come from – are they innate or are they learned?' Read more on our blog: prisonreadinggroups.org.uk/reading-grou... @faberbooks.bsky.social

We loved receiving these photos from a prison family day we supported. 👪 We send carefully selected new books. 'Lovely for my partner to be able to read a story for our little girl.' - parent at a prison family day 💛 giveabook.org.uk/project/prg-... #ReadingforPleasure #FamilyDays #PrisonReform

We’re so excited to be working together as well! 🙌🙌📚 giveabook.org.uk/support-us/l...

I managed to capture the great work of @giveabookorg.bsky.social on a recent trip into HMP Isis, the first few hours in a cell with nothing must be an incredibly difficult time, having access to something to read is essential.

Will you supply books to police stations? 👮🏾📚 Give a Book supplies London police stations with specifically selected books for detainees to read whilst they are being held and to keep when they leave. Leave a legacy: giveabook.org.uk/support-us/l... @rememberacharity.bsky.social #WillYou

🏫 Will you support reading for pleasure in schools? Give a Book works with UK schools to support reading for pleasure. We arrange author visits & create bright, imaginative reading space for the whole school to enjoy. Leave a legacy: giveabook.org.uk/support-us/l... @rememberacharity.bsky.social

Will you support families reading together at prison visits? 📚📚 Give a Book supports family days in prisons across the UK with books for families to enjoy together & for children to take home. 💛 Leave a legacy: giveabook.org.uk/support-us/l... @rememberacharity.bsky.social #RememberACharityWeek

📚Will you support parents in prison to read with their children? Raising Readers offers parents in prison the chance to choose a book to send home to their child, while keeping a copy themselves.💛 Leave a legacy: giveabook.org.uk/support-us/l... @rememberacharity.bsky.social #RememberACharityWeek

📚Will you support prison reading groups? Our project Prison Reading Groups runs in 80+ prisons nationwide - promoting community, connection & change through books. 🔗 Find out how you can support us by leaving a gift in your Will: giveabook.org.uk/support-us/l... @rememberacharity.bsky.social

📅 This week is Remember A Charity Week! It's an opportunity to consider leaving a gift to a charity in your Will, after looking after your family and friends. 💛 👉 Learn more: giveabook.org.uk/support-us/l... @rememberacharity.bsky.social #RememberACharityWeek #WillYou #Readingforpleasure

We packed 60 boxes of books this week for Books in the Nick & Books for First Nighters! 📚 Huge thanks to volunteers from London Speaker Bureau, @virginmedianews.bsky.social, Fora Space + our regulars! 🤝 & thanks to @foxandinkbooks.bsky.social for donating The Magickal Summer of Evie Edelman!

📸 Captured inside HMPYOI Isis by @andyaitchison.bsky.social. 📚 For 3 years we’ve run the project - Isis: A Reading Prison - to raise the profile of reading across the prison. 🙏 A huge thank you to @manwithbooks.bsky.social, The Sheriffs’ and Recorder’s Fund & HH Wendy Joseph QC for their support.

We're proud to provide books for all 6 mother & baby units in UK prisons - helping mums share the joy of reading with their little ones. 💛📚👶 👉 Learn more: giveabook.org.uk/project/moth... @panmacmillan.bsky.social @scholasticuk.bsky.social #MotherandBabyUnits #ReadingforPleasure #PrisonReform

Thrilled to receive these brilliant Very Short Introductions from @oxfordunipress.bsky.social - gifted by Jenny Hartley, co-founder of Prison Reading Groups and author of the Charles Dickens edition! 📚✨ Perfect for our adult reading projects. 💡 More on what we do: giveabook.org.uk/projects/

We loved this feedback from a prisoner parent at a Family Day we supported. 💛 Give a Book provides hand-picked books for children to choose from and when we can, volunteers to encourage shared reading. 🧸📖 Learn more: giveabook.org.uk/projects/pro... #FamilyDays #ReadingForPleasure #BooksConnect

🪶 Several of our prison reading groups picked Claire Keegan’s book Small Things Like These this year. One reader said: 'I didn’t think it would be my kind of book […] But it takes hold of you and by the end I loved it.' Read more: prisonreadinggroups.org.uk/reading-grou... @faberbooks.bsky.social

'Seeing the children’s excitement as they received their books, and the emotional reactions of parents, was incredibly moving.' 💙 Amreeta from the MoJ volunteered with Give a Book at a prison Family Day and shared her reflections. Read more: giveabook.org.uk/2025/08/06/r... #FamilyDays #Volunteer

Another great store day! 📚 We packed 32 boxes for Books for First Nighters & Books in the Nick - sending books to people in custody suites & prison. Huge thank you to our fab volunteers from @virginmedianews.bsky.social, WeWork, MoJ as well as our regulars! 🙌 Join us: giveabook.org.uk/volunteer/ 📦

Exciting news: we recently welcomed author Sebastian Faulks to HMP Wandsworth, where we run 3 reading groups! 📚 His novel The Seventh Son sparked conversations on science, morality & humanity. ⚛️ ⚛️ 🔗 prisonreadinggroups.org.uk/sebastian-faulks-visit @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social #AuthorVisit

Give a Book is supporting reading in 8 Tower Hamlets schools this year! We’re refreshing libraries and running projects: ✏️ Page to Picture – kids redesign book covers without seeing the original! 📖 Picture Book Club – Year 5s read with Year 1s. ❤️ #ReadingForPleasure

We are pleased to share this important piece of feedback from a participant in our project Books in the Nick. 💛 Give a Book supplies custody suites with books to occupy, entertain and calm detainees in distressing situations. #feedbackfriday #booksinthenick #prisonreform #pleasureofreading

We had a great time meeting the @nosycrow.bsky.social team last month! 📚🐦 Grateful for their generous donations. We've already ordered over 1,700 books from Nosy Crow this year - for our Family Reading projects in prisons. 🔗 giveabook.org.uk/projects/ @annebehl.bsky.social #NosyCrow #FamilyReading

Many congratulations @robertharrishome.bsky.social fabulous news🥳 @giveabookorg.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social #pleasureofreadingprize

A beautiful reminder of the power of stories and connection — especially between parents and children separated by prison walls. Shoutout to @giveabookorg.bsky.social and @manwithbooks.bsky.social for making moments like this possible. ✨ 🔗 giveabook.org.uk/projects #FamilyConnection

This month’s #BookOfTheMonth is Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl, recommended by award-winning writer A.L. Kennedy. 🕊 Buy your copy via @bookshop.org: uk.bookshop.org/a/6027/97818... - 10% of proceeds go to Give a Book.💙 @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social #ReadingForPleasure #Books

Happy Friday! 🎉 As #SmallCharityWeek wraps up, we’re reflecting on the work we’re proud to be doing. 📚✨ 🙌 A huge thank you to @SmallCharityWeek for highlighting and empowering organisations like ours. #SmallCharities #GiveABook #ReadingforPleasure #FamilyReading

📚 One of our emergent reader groups called The Donor 'brilliant' with 'twist after twist after twist'! Quick Reads open doors and spark powerful discussions. Find out more: prisonreadinggroups.org.uk/reading-grou... @readingagency.bsky.social @claremackwrites.bsky.social @littlebrown.bsky.social

🎉 Delighted to announce @robertharrishome.bsky.social as the 2025 Pleasure of Reading Prize winner! Sponsored by @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social & supported by The Blavatnik Family Foundation. Find out more: giveabook.org.uk/the-pleasure... #PleasureofReadingPrize @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social

For #WorldRefugeeDay we’re celebrating these powerful books we've shared across our projects: Prison Reading Groups, Whole School Reading Project & Family Days. @harpercollins.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social @bonnierbooks.bsky.social @faberbooks.bsky.social @hachettechildrens.bsky.social

A lovely story made by a parent in prison for their child, through our project Making It Up, led by our fantastic prison consultant @manwithbooks.bsky.social! 📖 The young parent wrote: ‘I hope you read this and smile because daddy smiled when he was making it.’ 💛 🔗 giveabook.org.uk/projects/

As #VolunteersWeek wraps up, a huge THANK YOU to our amazing volunteers – we couldn’t do it without you! 💛 In the last 2 weeks, teams from @virginmedianews.bsky.social & Fitch Solutions helped us pack 70 boxes of books for people in custody suites, prisoners & their family members! 📚📦 #volunteer

📚 “You gave us a modern day To Kill a Mockingbird.” 📚 A glowing book review from one of our prison reading group members of The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas. 💙 🔗 Read here: prisonreadinggroups.org.uk/book-review-... @angiethomas.bsky.social @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social #ReadingforPleasure

A busy, brilliant store day! Huge thanks to Thasos from @virginmedianews.bsky.social for helping us pack 28 boxes for Books in the Nick and First Nighters. We also received generous book donations from @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social & Ali Smith! Join our next store day: giveabook.org.uk/volunteer/

Becca Bashford spent over a year working with us on an evaluation and impact study of the work of Prison Reading Groups. We were so excited to present the findings at a launch event at the the House of Lords last month. Read the full report here: prisonreadinggroups.org.uk 📑 #prisonreadinggroups

We were proud to be part of the steering committee for #TheLiteracyLink event earlier this month - a fantastic opportunity to connect with like-minded organisations working to inspire a love of reading in children. ✨📚 Thank you to @thefea.bsky.social for capturing these conversations! 📸

Some great discussions being had in our workshops… Key takeaways: • collaboration • trust • generosity #TheLiteracyLink

A thought-provoking speech by our keynote speaker Chris Wright from charity Catch 22 about "joining forces for the collective good of beneficiaries". 🤝 🙌 "It requires us to leave personal and organisational ego outside the door." #TheLiteracyLink

We are so excited to be here at #TheLiteracyLink event, connecting with organisations to support, collaborate & inspire children's reading engagement! 🔗📚

A huge thank you to @childrensbookshop.bsky.social for yet another generous donation of children’s books! 🤩 These will be sent to prisons for our family reading projects. 🧸📚 @harpercollins.bsky.social @lthompsonwrites.bsky.social @carlhiaasen.bsky.social @panmacmillan.bsky.social #books #donation

Happy World Book Day from Give a Book! 🌍📚 We were sent these lovely pics of the pupils at St Paul's Whitechapel Primary School enjoying Picture Book Club! Give a book are funding this programme for primary schools in Tower Hamlets. @bookclubsinschools.bsky.social @worldbookdayuk.bsky.social

Here's one of our excellent volunteers, Radha, with the 35 boxes of books we packed at our store day yesterday for: mother and baby units in prison, people in custody suites and those facing their first nights in prison and a support centre for ex-prisoners. 📚 Volunteer: giveabook.org.uk/volunteer/

We are SO excited to be finalists in the Smiley Charity Film Awards 2025! Thank you so much to everyone who voted and to @mediatrust.bsky.social and the Crucible Foundation for all their support. 🫶 🌟

At Give a Book, we provide books to those whose access to them is limited. 📚 As our projects continue to grow exponentially, demand for books has increased. Even a small donation can make a significant difference to someone's life. Donate here: tinyurl.com/26zjb964. Thank you. 🙌 #charity #donate

We packed and sent over 70 boxes of books at our store day this week & couldn’t have done it without the help of our amazing volunteers from @virginmedianews.bsky.social, along with our regulars! 🌟 Take a look at some of our books for prison Family Days. 🧸 Volunteer: giveabook.org.uk/volunteer/

I love this wee film! Expertly done and such a powerful statement of the value of reading for people in prisons, and their families on the outside. Please watch and vote!

Do watch this beautiful two minute film from our fellow charity Give A Book: smileycharityfilmawards.com/films/solace... If you found it moving and important as we do, they would appreciate your vote in the Smiley Charity Film Awards. Link as above. Thank you. #CFA25