Helping good causes.

As a Rotarian, I love helping good causes and as an ex teacher, I love to get good books into children's hands. Therefore it makes good sense to combine the two. I am delighted that we can run virtual book events on our Barefoot websites and I have several running at Lyn's Barefoot Book Biz I am delighted to have just added one to help swell the "Help Gracie MAy funds". Gracie May is a little girl living on the Isle of Wight who suffers from cerebal palsy. Her mother, Many Fuller , raised money to get her to America for treatment and she has just started walking BUT she needs to return to America for further treatment so a lot more funds need to be raised.
Please let others know so we can raise LOTS of funds.

Another project I am working on is "Pictures tell stories" set up by fellow Rotarian, Maire Reeves, an ex teacher like me.

She is very concerned that children of illiterate parents will miss out on sharing beautiful books with their children and so she has set up a project to address this.

There is no funding and so we are working together. I am a business woman on the Isle of Wight and network with so many of the other small businesses. They are wonderful people and many of them have very kindly donated a book for the project. I am using the discounts to increase the donations and all the kind sponsors will be listed on my Lyn's Barefoot Book Fan Page under the Book donors tab. They will also be listed on Maire's Picture tell stories fan page when she has made it live. Maire ran a competition in the summer for people to find the Pictures Tell stories logo and is picture here with the winner

The people of the Isle of Wight have been very generous with their donations so far. Natalie King of Pampered Chef has donated the Giant Turnip and Maggie Currie 

has sponsored Driving my Tractor and Animal Boogie

Martin Simpson of the Dinsoaur Farm is sponsoring I dreamt I was a dinosaur and Thesaurus Rex.









Alex Tana has also made a donation and so has Linda Tilson - HR consultant. She chose My Granny's gone to Market
The list is growing and I will post more books and sponsors later.
Paula Pomeroy has donated a bag of Barefoot books.

These parents and children are going to be so lucky to have these beautiful books so generously donated!
And the list goes on! More donations coming in! If anyonw else would like to donate then please get in touch - if we can get together a bigger order very soon then we can benefit from an offer that allows us to claim an extra £60 of books FREE for our good cause.