Children's Book Project

Who we are

The Children’s Book Project is a grassroots charity that understands the enormous power that reading has in shaping children’s lives. 

We have an ambition to eradicate book poverty and believe that, regardless of their circumstances, every child deserves access to inspiring reading material, expanding their perspective on the world and helping them to fulfil their potential. We collect new and lightly used books from families and publishers and gift them onwards to children growing up in poverty, often with very few or none of their own.  We work with hundreds of settings annually to run free, inspirational, and memorable book-gifting events at which children are empowered to choose and take-home books of their own that they feel excited about.
We are an exception amongst UK literacy charities in that we champion the reuse of pre-loved books and have a strong sustainability ethos across all of our work. 

Every good quality book donated to us by a family or publisher finds a new home, immediately increasing its lifetime value and enabling it to be re-loved and not pulped.

Our culture and values

We began in London in 2011, grew slowly and now have an efficient and beneficiary-led gifting model that delivered over 350k books to targeted communities nationwide this year.  We are growing but still 'punching above our weight' in terms of impact.  We are collaborative, supportive and beneficiary oriented.

Working for us presents an opportunity to make real and lasting impact. You will be working at the heart of what is a family as we scale and deepen our impact.

Equality, diversity and inclusion policy

A part of our values, we are committed to supporting inclusion and diversity. We actively celebrate different abilities, sexual orientation, ethnicity, faith and gender. Everyone is welcome and supported in their development at all stages of their journey with us.