The time has come (finally) to announce that the doors of Healthy Planet Stratford will be opening to visitors for the first time this afternoon.
It’s taken the first half of the month to reach this stage – admittedly too long considering how most of the books arrived at once and we still have very little in the way of furniture.
The view inside Healthy Planet Stratford from the entrance.
Without bookshelves becoming available for us to use we’re opening with the look of an even more temporary set-up than I had hoped and expected. Over the past week there’s been barely any progress made, other than making the books look presentable in boxes, so we could with hindsight have opened last week or even sooner.
Our still very small team of volunteers have worked hard considering the limited resources and uncertainly about what might or might not arrive at the centre.
At this stage I should remind everyone (and myself) how Books for Free centres are unique in that none are shops – all the books on offer here and at all the other centres across the country are FREE (up to three books per visit.)
We look forward to welcoming you, and hope many of you like it enough as well to become involved in this project in the longer term while we are based in Stratford.
Longer lasting happiness 