Grants and Funding with The Book Trade Charity BTBS

Apr 26, 2020

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Episode 68 of bookcareers.com Live

The Book Trade Charity BTBS hit the national papers this week. A crowdfunding scheme designed to help booksellers during Covid-19 received a donation of £250,000. This is in addition to the donations raised on a  GoFundMe page set up by Gayle Lazda, Željka Marošević and Kishani Widyaratna.

In this episode of bookcareers Live we speak to the Operations Manager of BTBS, Glenda Barnard. Glenda talks to us about the donation, the fundraiser and how the charity can help individuals across the wider publishing industry.  Take a listen to find out.  If you’d like to contact BTBS or apply for a grant details are at https://www.btbs.org or you can find them on twitter @BTBSCharity. You can contribute to the fundraiser here

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