Book Recycling Scheme
How it works:
- You donate your unwanted books (adult fiction & autobiography only please)
- You take them down to the Village Community Shop and hand them in at the counter
- You buy a different one (or two, or three...!)
- You get that "feel good" factor for donating or buying and some absolute bargains to boot.
Books cost just 50p each - and when you've finished with them, simply bring them back again! (A couple of polite requests - please hand your donations in at the counter, as bags left in the foyer obstruct access and please no boxes full, as the shop doesn't have the storage space. Please note that we no longer accept videos. Thank you.).
All money raised goes to benefit village organisations, which receive the sum of £50 each time.
All beneficiaries are encouraged to “Pay It Forward”, by doing something kind
or supportive for another village organisation, rather than simply accepting
the donation – it’s entirely voluntary, but examples are donating surplus
fruit, vegetables or flowers to the village shop or offering some time to mow the
churchyard or help in the school.
The organisations which have benefitted so far are:
- Donation towards the cost of new plants in the build-out by the telephone box (March '24)
- Kington St Michael Village Shop - towards the new hot drinks machine (Nov '23)
- Village Hall - towards the cost of repairs (Nov '23)
- St Michael & All Angels Church - towards heating costs (March '23)
- Acorns Pre-school, towards books and garden toys. (Oct '22)
- Donation towards the cost of replanting the build-out (by the telephone box) in time for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee (Aug '22)
- Kington St Michael Village Shop, towards improvement of its hot water facility (May '22)
- QE2 Field Group (January '22)
- Platinum Jubilee celebrations fund (August '21)
- Community Defibrillator fund (Oct '20)
- Parents & Friends of Kington St Michael School (July '20)
- All Angels WI (January '20)
- Community Defibrillator fund (September '19)
- Acorns Pre-school, towards outdoor toys. (May '19)
- WI (KSM), for spring bulbs for the village (March '19)
- Acorns Pre-school (December '18)
- FOSMAA (November '18), towards internal improvements.
- Autumn Club (June '18)
- Village Hall, towards the cost of the new roof. (December '17)
- Kington St Michael Club, towards the cost of the new lights for the skittle alley (November '17)
- Acorns Pre-school (April '17)
- Parents & Friends of Kington St Michael School (January 2017)
- QE2 Field Group (September '16)
- Kington St Michael Village Shop, towards the annual cost of the postal collections (June '16)
- Kington St Michael Club towards the cost of the new illuminated sign (January '16)
- WI (KSM) for spring bulbs for the village (September '15)
- KSM Netball Club (June '15)
- KSM Brownies (February '15)
- Kington St Michael Community Shop (October '14)
- Village Link (September '14)
- Acorns Pre-school (May '14)
- KSM Netball Club (December '13)
- KSMPC to go towards the cost of refurbishing the two benches by the telephone box, which commemorate WWII (July '13)
- Village Link (April '13)
- Acorns Pre-school (January '13)
- KSMPC to go towards the community shelter (January '13)
- Kington St Michael CE School, for books (August '12)
- FOSMAA (May 2012)
- Autumn Club (March '12)
- Kington St Michael Community Shop (January '12)
- KSM Village Hall towards the cost of a new ramp (funds sent via KSMPC - October '11)
- KSM Diamond Jubilee Celebrations fund (September '11)
- Recreation Field Fund (July '11)
- KSM Netball Club (June '11)
- FOSMAA (March '11)
- School Council at KSM School - to replace the vandalised basketball hoop (December '10)
- Defibrillator Scheme (November '10)
- Acorns Pre-school (October '10)
- St Michael & All Angels Church - towards cost of wall repairs (May '10)
- KSM Brownies (February '10)
- KSM Netball Club (November '09)
- Friends of Kington St Michael School (July '09)
- KSM Village Hall - for the purchase of table lamps (March '09)
- Kington St Michael Parish Council - towards the cost of a bench for the Recreation Field (January '09)
- Autumn Club (December '08)
- Recreation Field Fund (August '08)
- Village Link (June '08)
- St Michael & All Angels Church - towards cost of weather vane (April '08)
- Kington St Michael CE School (February '08)
- KSM Village Hall (December '07)
- Acorns Pre-school (December '07)
- Kington St Michael Community Shop (August '07)
- Music & Movement (March '07)
- KSM Youth Club (February '07)
- The Alms Houses Trust (October '06)
- KSM Club (August '06)
- Kington Tots (May '06)
- KSM Brownies (February '06)
- Friends of Kington St Michael School (December '05)
- Acorns Pre-School (November '05)
- KSM Village Hall (September '05)
- St Michael & All Angels Church (July '05)
- Autumn Club (May '05)
- Recreation Field Fund (February '05)
- Music & Movement (January '05)
- Acorns Pre-School (November '04)
- KSM Youth Club (September '04)
- Kington St Michael CE School (June '04)
If you are a parish organisation which would like to be considered for a £50 donation from this scheme, please contact Linda Durno on 01249-750514 or e-mail kingtonstmichael@btinternet.com. N.B. If at any time there is a surfeit of books then, due to lack of storage space, we will pass them on to a charity shop rather than waste them.