Last Updated: 9/3/2011 LOOKING FOR WORK? Or looking for workers? Whichever side of the fence you’re on, please feel free to make use of this site’s Jobs page to post your requirements, now reinstated in the navigation bar at the top of every post and page. As with all things UKCBD, it’s a free service, … Continue reading
Posted in February 2012 …
Fairtrade is for life, not just a fortnight!
FAIRTRADE FORTNIGHT, February 27th – March 11th 2012, is upon us once again, and this year the Fairtrade Foundation is calling everyone to ‘take a step’ for fairtrade: what steps will you be taking, or have you taken? What are you doing to help your customers take a step? If you already stock fairtrade products … Continue reading
A Novel to Fight Over: Introducing Luke Wordley and The Fight
IF YOU LIKE BOXING, you’re gonna love The Fight, the debut novel from Luke Wordley; and I daresay even if you loathe boxing, you’ll love that this story pulls no punches in its gritty realism where human life and faith collide. Because this is a story whose author is unafraid to tell it like it … Continue reading
World Book Day 2012: What will kids be able to buy with their £1 book tokens from your shop?
WORLD BOOK DAY is less than one week away, Thursday 1st March: are you ready? Back in my days at the LST Bookshop I have to confess that I never paid much attention to it: academic theology and children’s book promotions didn’t tend to gel too well; but for Christian bookshops out there in the back … Continue reading
Microshops: the way forward for the UK’s Christian bookshops?
CONGRATULATIONS to Richard Greatrex as the next step forward for his recently announced bespoke bookstall service to churches begins to take shape in Bath in partnership with agreatread.co.uk, bringing the two worlds of online bookselling and local shopping together. From a report issued earlier today in the Bath Chronicle: The first of a new series … Continue reading
Unity Christian Bookshop, Petersfield, saved for another year
CONGRATULATIONS to everyone at Unity Christian Bookshop, Petersfield, on the success of last year’s appeal for funds to prevent the shop’s closure. The successful outcome, securing the shop’s future for another year, was reported last month via the PACT (Petersfield Area Churches Together) website: January 2012: Christians Save Bookshop! A big thank you from the manager, trustees and volunteers … Continue reading
St Albans to lose second Christian bookshop in as many months
THE DIOCESE OF ST ALBANS has announced that its bookshop at the Diocesan Resource Centre at Holywell Lodge, the Diocesan Headquarters, is to close down, leaving only a limited library service in its place once shop stock has been sold off. Following the recent closure of the St Albans branch of Quench, this leaves the … Continue reading
Planet BB: The Boys’ Brigade Around the World – Volume 2 due this year
David Chant writes: Following on from the success of Planet BB: The Boys’ Brigade Around the world, a second volume will be published this year. All of the 950 copies of volume one were sold out within a year, making £500+ for Global Fellowship, and over £4,000 for the Christian Children’s Centre, Nansana, Uganda. The … Continue reading
Have you voted yet? Bookseller poll on the future of Christian book retail
FOLLOWING ON from last week’s report of Wesley Owen’s likely closure of most of its stores, the Bookseller is conducting a poll on the future of Christian book retail: which of these will it be? Online High street Independents A mix To take part, head on over to thebookseller.com: scroll down the page when you … Continue reading
After the Tsunami: Regaining perspective on the UK Christian book trade
SOMETIMES, IN RUNNING UKCBD/THIS BLOG, I want to make like Elijah: to simply run away, hide in a cave and wait for the inevitable. Unlike Elijah, however, I’m not being pursued by an angry Queen who wants to chop me into pieces: on the whole the Christian book/retail trade remains a very positive area to … Continue reading
