[food] birthday request: the version involving cold hard cash

[kaberett]

The All Good Bookshop is a cooperatively owned community bookshop one borough over from me. In late April, they e-mailed:

We’ve teamed up with Haringey Council, Jack Monroe and Macmillan publishers to put together a special offer on Jacks fantastic book ‘Tin Can Cook: 75 Simple Store-cupboard Recipes’. If you buy a copy, we will donate a second copy to the Community Hub, which will be sent out with food parcels.

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We have 500 copies to buy/donate
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The book costs £6.99. You can buy one to keep and we will donate one on your behalf, or (if you’d prefer), you can donate both of them.

To buy one (or more), phone us on 07949 701 861 and we’ll take a payment over the phone by card. Alternatively, email us (control@allgoodbookshop.com) or tweet us (allgoodbookshop) with how many copies you’d like to buy. We’ll then send you the details so you can pay by paypal.

I haven't been in touch with them to confirm whether they've still got copies available to donate, but if you are up for buying a copy (and donating one or both to Haringey!) I'd be very happy about it.


On a similar theme of "feeding people" I'd be grateful for donations to The Trussell Trust, who (1) support foodbanks around the UK and (2) campaign for the necessary changes to make foodbanks unnecessary.


Further afield, I understand that Helen Keller International do good work and are relevant to several interests in these here parts. (With thanks to sebenikela for the pointer to them!)

Comments

[kaberett]

(actual birthday is next FridaySaturday [what even is time]; if you do donate to any of these I'd be delighted to know about it. <3)

[jesse_the_k]

Noted!

By the way, are you familiar with John Lee Clark, a DeafBlind poet who’s also a fierce advocate for DeafBlind ways of being, which he refers to as “Protactile”?

This post on

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Noted!

By the way, are you familiar with John Lee Clark, a DeafBlind poet who’s also a fierce advocate for DeafBlind ways of being, which he refers to as “Protactile”?

This post on <a href=“ https://johnleeclark.tumblr.com/post/163762970913/distantism”>Distancism</a> explores the barriers that hearing-sighted “helpers” impose on DeafBlind people.

[shewhostaples]

Heh - I have just sent a copy as a birthday present to one of my brothers. It's clearly the thing to do!

[rmc28]

I am a big fan of Jack Monroe! Honestly, their books have changed my attitude to cooking and built my confidence so much. I've contacted the bookshop to see about buying two copies to donate.

[kaberett]

Thank you. <333

[rmc28]

They got back to me, they have "a few" copies left so I paid for one and they've donated both to Haringey.

I will also give the Trussel Trust the equivalent of a train ticket to come see you, but their payment processor isn't working right now.

[rmc28]

follow-up: finally made a donation after successfully divining that Privacy Badger was blocking the payment processor (yes, I have reported this to PB)

Happy Birthday!

[shanaqui]

There we go -- my tithe for this month has gone to The Trussell Trust. ♥

[kaberett]

<333 Thank you.