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Haven Distribution - Books to Prisoners Haven was established in 1991 as a small non-profit mail order distribution. Then in 1996, its founder established the distribution as a UK Books to Prisoners service. The founder contacted various small publishers and asked friends for donations and began to draw up a catalogue of books. The catalogue was then sent into prisons and the founder began fundraising to keep the distribution going. Friends and friends of friends began giving their time volunteering durign the summers working at events/festivals where the Workers' beer Comapny were selling beer.

Demand for the service was increasing and the founder decided the only way to meet the demand was to try and get charitable status. We applied for charitable status in 2000 and was granted a charity number in 2001.

www.havendistribution.org.uk
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