About us

This year, The Book Trade Charity (BTBS) celebrates its 185th anniversary! Every day we provide vital support and work with beneficiaries from across the trade who need our help. Throughout Covid almost 1 in 3 people in the UK have experienced at least one life event that was either ‘very difficult’ or ‘not possible’ to pay for, using existing income and savings. (Turn2Us, November 2021)

You can help Marathon Team BTBS now by sponsoring our runners to help us actively grow our grants programme and the provision of affordable accommodation.

What your donation means.

Your donation enables us to provide regular and one-off grants, a life saver for some of our beneficiaries. We turn around applications in days not weeks.

We drive positive change and are a springboard for hundreds of colleagues and applicants from all corners of the book trade and from all walks of life. Crisis does not discriminate.

Your donation helps:

Put food on tables, heat homes and keeps the lights on

Relocation for a dream job with the provision of subsidised housing

Support people’s growth and development with the skills needed to progress and realise their potential.

Covid has hit hard and now is the time to give back, to mobilise and come together to ensure that those in crisis are supported to thrive in an industry that we all love. Your donation will be acknowledged and very gratefully received.

Please support #TeamBTBS and witness the positive lasting impact that BTBS has on countless lives.

THANK YOU!