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6 Simple Steps to a Mini Book-Cycle 
1. FIND A LOCATION  This can be anywhere that is used by your community; a café, pub, coffee house or communal space as big or as small as the space can offer. Approach the manager / business owner and tell them about the free bookshelf facility. Use this handy PDF we have created to give them a brief overview ‘Community Book-Cycle Info’  2. GET SOME BOOKS
Fill the chosen space with as many books as you can find. The tastier the reading material, the better! If you have any surplus books, store as a top-up for the shelf. You will also need a box to collect any donations people would like to make for the books they choose. This can be put on the shelf (padlocked & chained for safety) or located at the till / desk of the business.
3. ADVERTISE!SPREAD THE WORD! Tell your friends and get them to tell their friends. Print off one of the PDF posters and put up around the book shelf. Email us and we will send you some flyers and window stickers, we’d be only too happy to help. Invest in some jumbo chalk & promote on the pavements / walls of your town.
(CHOOSE YOUR LOCATION WELL….) Send us the location details of the shelf with some photos and we’ll put it on our map for the whole country to see >>> Book-Cycle Branches
 4. NURTURE
Maintain the shelf. Every now and again pop by to see how it is ticking over. If the book shelf is looking a little sparse, top-up with more tasty reading material. Remove any tatty books which can either be donated to your nearest charity shop or paper recycling bank. Ask others to bring their unwanted good literature to the space to share with their community. The more people that use it the better!
5. DONATIONS  Once the donations box is full, count up the contents and write a receipt. Give this to the manager / business owner as proof for their records. Deposit into the Book-Cycle bank account (details provided on the back of each donations box). Keep an accurate account of the money that is raised through each location. We will provide each location with a quarterly total of their fundraising activity and regular updates of our projects to see the positive effect the bookshelf has.
 6. THE CAUSE
Other than a donation into the Book-Cycle account, you and your community might want to fund raise for a specific local project, e.g. tree planting, hosting a ‘Bring Your Own Art’ exhibition or even creating a community food garden. So long as it falls in line with Book-Cycle aims and objectives then it has the potential to be your Book-Cycles’ focal point. A simple and direct way to get involved in our objectives is to wait until your box has about £30 in it, choose a good selection of books and parcel them to send to one of our Partner Charities. This is a beautiful way to have a profound and lasting positive impact in some of the world’s poorest areas. Cafe Espresso - Exeter
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