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Charity Shoutout: Home-Start Southwark

Posted on: March 1, 2025

Category: Uncategorized

We’re spotlighting different charities from across the country each month to highlight the amazing work they do and to provide solace through our pay it forward book scheme. Home-Start Southwark is on a mission to provide high quality support for families with babies and children under the age of 5. …

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Charity Shoutout: SPACE HERTS

Posted on: February 3, 2025

Category: Uncategorized

We’re spotlighting different charities from across the country each month to highlight the amazing work they do and to provide solace through our pay it forward book scheme.  SPACE is an award winning charity based in Hertfordshire that supports families of children and young people who are neurodivergent. Running since …

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Charity Shoutout: PACT

Posted on: January 4, 2025

Category: Charity Shoutouts, News

We’re spotlighting different charities from across the country each month to highlight the amazing work they do and to provide solace through our pay it forward book scheme.  This month, we’re highlighting Parents and Children Together (PACT), an adoption and trauma support charity.  Established in 1911 by the Bishop of …

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Loneliness and Volunteering at Christmas

Posted on: December 18, 2024

Category: Uncategorized

Bookshops play a powerful role in bringing communities together and at HOBAF it is our mission to combat loneliness through the power of connection. Reading, discussing books, buying books, listening to authors and writing can connect us physically, intellectually, emotionally and spiritually.  When we read, we are not alone. Loneliness and social isolation …

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Charity Shoutout: We Are Survivors

Posted on: November 14, 2024

Category: Charity Shoutouts

November is Men’s Mental Health Awareness Month, so we spoke to local charity We Are Survivors about their work with men who have experienced sexual assault and rape in their lives. Their work has helped men all around Greater Manchester overcome their trauma and work towards feeling healed and happy. …

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Supporters Club – Be part of the change

Posted on: November 11, 2024

Category: News

Your support—big or small—means the world to us at House of Books & Friends. As a community interest company, our mission is to combat loneliness and social isolation, with all profits reinvested into the bookshop to further our impact. Loneliness is a growing concern, affecting 85% of adults in the …

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