IN 2025 The Bookery will celebrate 12 years of trading and work benefitting the wider community.
It wants to build on its success, develop the business and increase its reach so that it can:
• Deliver more activities with schools, older people, families and great book events
• Engage with more people, gain more members/shareholders and deepen its connections to the community
• Develop the business to increase its capacity for more work in the community.
The Bookery sells new books, tries to generate a surplus, then uses that surplus together with the huge energy and commitment of a wonderful group of volunteers to deliver high valued community activities.
The Bookery now needs some capital to achieve its plans and that is why it is now seeking some new investment.
It wants to:
• Invest in outreach development and grant funding generation
• Increase staffing to assist in delivery of outreach activities
• Increase the quality of resources utilised for outreach activities.
It plans to develop the business to generate more surplus by:
• Improving lighting, signage and display in the bookshop
• Increasing resources to revitalise online book sales
• Investing in software to analyse sales data
• Building its capacity and use of social media to reach more and different people
• Upgrading the kitchen and social area of the Hub.
The share offer opened on November 13 and will close on January 25, 2025.
Shares will be priced at £20 with a maximum investment of 400 shares.
The share offer prospectus and full business plan is available to potential investors via the website: www.thebookery.org.uk/shareoffer .
There will be a launch event for the share offer at The Bookery on Saturday, November 23, from 11am to 1pm with live music, children’s activities and refreshments.
Committee members will be on-hand to provide information and answer questions.
It has a target of £20,000, with the possibility of matched investment from the Co-op Booster Fund to make it £40,000.
There will be a launch event for the share offer at The Bookery on Saturday, November 23, from 11am to 1pm with live music, children’s activities and refreshments.
Committee members will be on-hand to provide information and answer questions.
It was in 2012 that Crediton Community Bookshop was set up to raise some capital to set up the Bookshop, now trading as The Bookery.
The Bookery acknowledges the support of its customers, volunteers, shareholders and many local organisations which, its says, has been critical to the success of the business.
The award-winning bookshop is also inviting you to go along and help it Complete the Bookery Puzzle on Friday, November 22, as part of Crediton’s late night shopping activities in the bookshop from 3.30pm to 6.30pm.
A uniquely designed 500-piece puzzle has been created in partnership with All Jigsaw Puzzles based in Hatherleigh depicting the Bookery window at Christmas.The Bookery invites you to help with this task.
The Bookery will also extend its shopping hours on Friday, November 29 until 6.30pm, and until 4pm on Saturday, November 30.