Starbucks runs bookdrive for local primary schools
Howard Lake | 26 November 2007 | News
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.
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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.
About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.