Category: book sale

The Amnesty November book sale is over and we raised an amazing £3736.56, which brings our total for 2009 to a phenomenal £16,500. Many thanks to everyone who volunteered time to help set up the Church of the Ascension and also sell books on the day. Thanks also to the Ascension for allowing us to take over their church for the three days it takes to set up the November sale. Finally, thanks also to everyone who offered books to the group. We’re sorry that we haven’t been able to accept donations for the November sale. There were simply so many books leftover from June that we were kept busy trying to sell those. I will try to contact everyone who offered books and suggest some alternative places which may be collecting. We will start collecting books again in May 2010.

8th annual Blackheath & Greenwich Amnesty clearance book sale
Saturday 14th November 2008
10am 2009-11-14T10:00:00+0:00 until 4pm 2009-11-14T16:00:00+0:00
Church of the Ascension
Dartmouth Row
Blackheath SE10 8BF

20,000 new and used books at bargain prices. In June we raised a record-breaking £12,500 for Amnesty International UK but we still have thousands of books left to sell. We hope to raise a further £3,000 by selling the unsold books in November.

If you would like to help with preparing for the sale, or are interested in collecting unsold books at the end of the day, please leave a comment using the form below.

You can also find us on Upcoming and facebook. Flyers can be downloaded from flickr.

I’ve been neglecting this blog, so I never posted an update on the Amnesty book sale this summer. The total take on the day was a phenomenal £11,700! Since then, we’ve received some donations and sold the Encyclopedia Britannica on e-bay, bringing the total raised to £12,500. Our highest total ever. Many thanks to everyone who gave up their time, over the five weeks leading up to the sale, to get it all together.

The leftover books, of which there were plenty, will go on sale again on Saturday 14th November at the Church of the Ascension.

35th annual Blackheath & Greenwich Amnesty book sale
Saturday 20th June 2009
9am 2009-06-20T09:00:00+1:00 until 5pm 2009-06-20T17:00:00+1:00
Church of the Ascension
Dartmouth Row
Blackheath SE10 8BF

20,000 new and used books at bargain prices. Last year we raised a record-breaking £11,700 for Amnesty International UK. I’m not sure we’ll manage that again, but please come along and help us by buying a few books to read over the summer.

This sale is dependent entirely on the hard work of a small team of volunteers and generous donations of books. If you would like to help with preparing for the sale, or would like to donate books, please leave a comment using the form below.

You can also find us on Upcoming and Facebook. Flyers can be downloaded from flickr.

Blackheath & Greenwich Amnesty held our November book sale last Sunday. We made £4,200, which means the total for both of our 2008 book sales is a phenomenal £16,000.

Many thanks to everyone who volunteered their time to help out, and to the Church of the Ascension for hosting the sale.

7th annual Blackheath & Greenwich Amnesty clearance book sale
Saturday 15th November 2008
10am 2008-11-15T10:00:00+1:00 until 4pm 2008-11-15T16:00:00+1:00
Church of the Ascension
Dartmouth Row
Blackheath SE10 8BF

20,000 new and used books at bargain prices. In June we raised a record-breaking £11,500 for Amnesty International UK but we still have thousands of books left to sell. We hope to raise a further £3,000 by selling the unsold books in November.

If you would like to help with preparing for the sale, or are interested in collecting unsold books at the end of the day, please leave a comment using the form below.

You can also find us on Upcoming and facebook. Flyers can be downloaded from flickr.

The total take from the Amnesty book sale is in and we raised £11,700! Our highest total ever. Many thanks to everyone who gave up their time, over the last five weeks, to get the sale together.

The leftover books, of which there were plenty, will go on sale again in November.

34th annual Blackheath & Greenwich Amnesty book sale
Saturday 21st June 2008
9am 2008-06-21T09:00:00+1:00 until 5pm 2008-06-21T17:00:00+1:00
Church of the Ascension
Dartmouth Row
Blackheath SE10 8BF

20,000 new and used books at bargain prices. Last year we raised a record-breaking £9,500 for Amnesty International UK. Can we beat our personal best this year?

This sale is dependent entirely on the hard work of a small team of volunteers and generous donations of books. Work starts around about Monday 19th May and continues up until the day of the sale.

If you would like to help with preparing for the sale, or would like to donate books, please leave a comment using the form below.

You can also find us on Upcoming and Facebook. Flyers can be downloaded from flickr.

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The November Amnesty book sale is behind us now and the total take was £3,250 last night. Slightly down on previous years, but our total for 2007 is over £12,000 – a phenomenal amount for two sales organised by a small number of very dedicated volunteers. Many thanks to everyone involved. We’ll be back in June 2008 to sell a fresh batch of books.

We made over £9,000 in June, but we still have thousands of books left to sell. Come and buy some books. We can’t store unsold books, so anything left at the end of the day will get dumped in a skip.

You can get the flyer from flickr, and a full event listing on upcoming.