# Starbucks runs bookdrive for local primary schools

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2007/11/26/starbucks-runs-bookdrive-local-primary-schools/
- Published: 2007-11-26T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

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Starbucks has launched its fifth annual Bookdrive, inviting customers to donate 
new books in their coffee shops for local primary schools. In partnership with the
National Literacy Trust and Children’s Books Ireland, this year’s campaign aims 
to beat last year’s total of 100,000 donated books.
In the five years of the campaign
almost 230,000 books have been donated to local primary schools. The number grows
considerably each year: 13,000 in 2003, 28,105 books in 2004, 50,000 in 2005 and
100,000 in 2006.

The Book Drive was set up to celebrate and build on the success of the National 
Literacy Trust’s Reading is Fundamental project ‘All Books for Children’, which 
has been funded and supported by Starbucks since January 2001.

This year Starbucks is also offering 20 prizes of £500 worth of books in a crossword
competition in partnership with The Times. The crossword can be downloaded as a 
PDF and the competition closes on 7 January 2008.

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