Run for Bookbanks

Challenge yourself & fundraise for Bookbanks!

Have a look at the incredible ways you could challenge yourself and support Bookbanks this year:

Battersea Park 5K

London

Monthly

Regent’s Park 10K

London

Monthly

Great Manchester Run 10K

Manchester

18 May 2025

The Hackney Half

London

18 May 2025

Gear 10K

Norfolk

4 May 2025

Royal Parks Half

London

12 October 2025

Or choose from 100s more challenge events HERE

Or try something else…

We rely on fundraising efforts from individuals and organisations in order to bring books to food banks and create spaces for conversation, inspiration and community.

There are plenty of ways to fundraise aside from challenge events:

Host a Bookbanks Readathon

Why not get your friends involved too? Feel free to contact us and we can let you know some of the most popular titles at your local Bookbanks site, for inspiration.

Hold a Bookbanks Bake sale

This is a great way to get friends and colleagues involved too.

Organise a Bookbanks Quiz

Get in touch with us if you’d like us to ask Bookbanks guests for a question or two.

If you’d like to fundraise for Bookbanks, please click on the ‘I want to fundraise for this’ button on the Bookbanks Donorbox page HERE. Please email us if you get stuck!

We have already given out more than 4,000 books, partnering with 4 food banks. These books have led to inspiring and meaningful conversations both at the Bookbanks stall and beyond, as guests take books home with them or give them on to other people in their lives.

Help us use books to build more communities by opening 5 new Bookbanks sites in 2025, partnering with food banks in London, Norfolk and Manchester.