Giving Back

Some members of our communities are unable to visit libraries. We are constantly working with Charities, Support Groups and Local Hospitals - we want to ensure that all sectors of the community, irrespective of age, gender or background, have access to home-country media.

Oxfam We donate a large number of multi-cultural books to Oxfam's Huddersfield Book Depot each year. These are then distributed to Oxfam's 'diverse community' shops across the UK, not only raising funds, but also encouraging communities to use the stores.
Age Concern We've provided multi-cultural media in 6 Indic languages to setup an in-house library at Age Concern Leeds. We are working to replicate this initiative at other branches.
NHS We've set up a library of Indic books for parents visiting at Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital. We are also consulting with the NHS in Yorkshire and Lancashire to setup in-ward libraries of multi-cultural media (books, magazines and DVDs) for in-patients.
Dosti Based in Leeds, Dosti offers a supportive environment for Asian women with mental health issues. We have provided enough multi-cultural media to setup a library to accommodate the needs for all their community sectors. We will continue to work with Dosti, in particular with the supply of Indic 'self-help' media.
Shantona Women's Centre Based in Leeds, Shantona aims to bring about social change and justice by promoting health awareness, reducing social exclusion and broadening access of health services. We have recently setup a Bengali media library at Shantona, and hope to expand the stock with further donations.

Continued Support

We've been working with charities since 2009 and have donated foreign-language books to the value of over £50,000.

We are keen to support further charitable causes. If you would like to receive donated books (Indic languages), please drop us a few lines. Let's discuss how we can help.

If you are in the Book Trade and would like to support similar charities by donating foreign-language media via Books Asia, please do contact us.

Giving Back

Oxfam

Age Concern

NHS

Dosti

Shantona Women's Centre

Continued Support