[CaroTheLibrarian]

I'm appealing to the chicken keepng community to see if you might be able to help out a group of school children. I'm a librarian in a secondary school in Sunderland, and a member of staff who aready keeps her own chickens is starting a project with some of our kids. We'll be raisng chicks in school, as well as building coops and so on.

We urgently need to get hold of some back issues of Practical Poultry magazine fo ibrary stock. Before I start ordering them from the publisher (which works out quite expensive) I wondered if there might be folk out there who have magazines they wish to be rid of.  I'm going to try our local Freegle groups as well.

We need about 20 copies, perhaps no more than 3 years old, and we would reimburse any postage costs.

If you can help us please get in touch.

Thanks for reading this message from an interloper!

Caroline Holmes
School Librarian (Venerable Bede School), vegetable gardener, NOT a chicken keeper!

[arugula]

This request has been cleared by Admin.

Good luck with your search Caroline.

[evie2]

I shall have a look, MIL gets it, then hands them on to me I may be a while.

I have May, Sept (without a front cover) Oct, Nov and Dec all 2011, I'll send them off next week if that's OK

[CaroTheLibrarian]

That would be brilliant - thank you. They need to be sent to

Caroline Holmes
Venerable Bede School
Tunstall Bank
Sunderland
SR2 0SX

If you pop your address in with them I'll arrange for postage costs to reimbursed. Thank you so much!

[evie2]

Don't bother about the postage Caro, they're going to a good cause

[kegs]

Can't help with mags I'm afraid but there are some back issues on fleebay at £1 each if that's any help.

[Brood of Bournemouth]

Have you tried contacting the publisher to see if they are willing to donate back copies for a good cause?
As a former soldier, I can remember when in Afghan we used to write to publishers asking for support, which always responded with bundles/ sacks of reading material that would arrive at our base within a couple of weeks. They can only say no, however i think they will help you out.