What is a Community Book Swap?

A Book Swap is an event where you can bring along books that you no longer want and swap them for books that you do! Fiction, non-fiction, kids books, adults books, recipe books. Any genre as long as it’s in decent enough condition for someone else to enjoy.

At the Great Ashby Community Centre our Community Book Swaps are free events. There is no entry fee and we don’t charge for any books that you want to take. All we ask is that you either return any books that you have read (and have finished with) or pass them on to someone else to enjoy.

All books at the event have been donated by the community. Don’t worry if you don’t have any to bring, come and pick one up anyway. Perhaps you can donate next time.

We sell tea, cafetiere coffee, soft drinks and cakes (with often a few of them homemade) to enjoy at the event with friends or family or to take away. All cash donations as well as proceeds from the sale of the refreshments go to the charity that runs our centre.

Our first Great Ashby Community Book Swap was held in May 2021 and was an instant success! We try to hold three per year. In previous years these have been in the Spring, Summer and late Autumn.

When is the next event?

Our eleventh event, will take place on Sunday 19th January, 2pm to 4pm.
Due to how popular the book swaps have become, we have decided to move the event into Halls 1 and 3 to give us additional space. We will be selling our Great Ashby Tote Bags, as well as refreshments at our pop-up tea room, to raise funds for our charity.

Follow our Facebook page for announcements and any further details nearer the time.