Welcome
to our social ENTERPRISE Book swap
Our Mission
Reading is said to have a positive effect on our mental health, and to have a positive effect on children's progress and attainment at school. At the FreeBee Library, we want to do what we can to improve lives. The opportunity to pick up a book at no cost in troubled times can be reassuring and it's great for the environment too. The feedback from our readers and lenders has been fantastic. It is hugely rewarding to know what a difference this little library is making in the community.
What We Do
Everyone is welcome at our little library, all day, all year! We love seeing members from the whole community joining in and taking an interest in the FreeBee Library.
Readers take books home and lenders leave books with us as donations, in return. There's a wide range of children's books, and adult fiction and non-fiction, regularly changed to provide some variety
We never ask anyone for money for what they take, but a few pennies are always welcome to help us cover our costs, such as new Book Hives, when our existing ones wear out.
Community Action
Book poverty is one of the greatest causes of education disparity in society. Every child deserves the opportunity to access books.
Reading can dramatically improve our mental health. At FreeBee Library HQ, have received cards, letters and words of thanks from families and older members of the community grateful for what we offer them.
Donating a book you've loved or never read to someone else can change a life. This is recycling at it's very best!
What We Can Do For Your Community
WANT A BOOK HIVE?
We can do that! We have posters and books to start you off, with some handy hints we've learned on the way. It's very easy, rewarding and fun. What's stopping you?
Alternatively, we can visit Food Hubs, schools and community groups with a Pop-Up Book Hive or lead a session on books and reading for children and adults. All FreeBee, obviously!
Our Journey Ahead
Ultimately, we'd like every community to have a BookHive. There are many, many little libraries all over the world already and Book swaps happening everywhere. That's brilliant.
It's our dream at the FreeBee Library to build a network of BookHives, so that we can build a bank of books and swap titles from area to area and enrich what we're able to supply readers. With these linked libraries, we can support under-stocked ones with those that are over-supplied, share books to increase the variety available at each location and celebrate special events, like World Book Day.
Reading is a gift. Give it freely.
contact us
Address
Harcourt Crescent,
Shrewsbury, SY2 5LQ
Phone
07539212993
FreeBeeLibrary@gmail.com