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 1st
July 2004
Local charity St Giles Hospice has launched its latest exciting fundraising
venture – a specialist bookshop in Mere Green, Sutton Coldfield.
Located at 284a Lichfield Road, the shop opened it doors for the first
time on Thursday (1st July).
The bookshop joins the charity’s established network of twelve other
stores across the region, and becomes St Giles’ fifth store in Sutton
Coldfield. It will help to raise funds to support St Giles’ valuable
work improving the lives of local people living with cancer and other
serious illnesses.
The new shop stocks a wide choice of high-quality, second-hand books including
fiction, children’s titles,
leisure, literature, travel, the arts, reference, and antiquarian volumes.
In addition, a selection of videos, CDs, DVDs, pictures, clocks, cameras,
and a range of new goods including stationery, gifts and greetings cards
is also available.
St Giles Hospice Shops General Manager Lynwen Truesdale explained: “We
are delighted to open our new bookshop in Mere Green, which will continue
our tradition of offering high-quality goods at value for money prices.
“Everyone loves a good book, and customers will be spoilt for choice.
There really is something to appeal to every taste.
“St Giles Hospice does a tremendous job, but we still can’t
care for everyone who wants our help, and more funds are always needed.
“As such, we are appealing to everyone to support the shop –
whether by buying or donating items we can sell.
“We’re also keen to hear from members of the public who’d
like to volunteer to help in the shop, and particularly from anyone who
can offer us specialist support in valuing books.”
St Giles’ twelve other charity shops across the region will continue
to sell a selection of books.
The bookshop is open Monday to Saturday from 9.15am – 4.30pm, and
further information is available by calling staff and volunteers on 0121
308 0006.
Donations of books and any other high-quality items that can be sold,
can be made at any hospice shop, the details of which are as follows:
ALDRIDGE
35 The Square Tel: 01922 744319
BURTON UPON TRENT
192 Station Street Tel: 01283 516218
CANNOCK
2 Wolverhampton Road Tel: 01543 574727
LICHFIELD
17 Tamworth Street Tel: 01543 262996
RUGELEY
4 Upper Brook Street Tel: 01889 576816
SUTTON COLDFIELD
406 Birmingham Road Tel: 0121 384 7533
Wylde Green
39 Walmley Road Tel: 0121 250 2504
Walmley
300 Lichfield Road Tel: 0121 323 4645
Mere Green
28 Boldmere Road Tel: 0121 354 9748
Boldmere
SWADLINCOTE
8 Midland Road Tel: 01283
551591
TAMWORTH
7 Little Church Lane Tel: 01827 66077
WALSALL
40 Freer Street Tel: 01922 720922
St Giles Hospice Shops play a vital role in funding the care offered by
the hospice, a registered charity based near Lichfield.
The thirteen shops are located in major towns throughout the hospice's
patient catchment area, which ranges from Ashby de la Zouch and Atherstone
in the east, to Cannock and Walsall in the west – and from Burton
and Uttoxeter in the north, to Sutton Coldfield and Coleshill in the south.
In addition, a clothing warehouse for donations and a furniture warehouse
offering a wide range of high-quality furniture at value-for-money prices,
are based in Shenstone, near Lichfield. A selection of furniture is also
available at the Cannock and Wylde Green shops.
Last year the hospice shops raised a total of £586,000 – and
every penny is desperately needed by St Giles. The charity spends over
£4million caring for local people living with cancer and other serious
illnesses, as well as providing support for their families and carers,
and relies heavily on the support of local people to enable its valuable
work to continue.
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