Secure Accommodation Network

Give a Book provides books for children in secure accommodation, part of the criminal justice and welfare system.

Give a Book provides specially chosen books every half term to secure accommodations across the UK as well as facilitating various reading projects.

For Christmas 2024, Give a Book supplied books for a secure accommodation to organise a Jolabokaflod event with the children, an Icelandic tradition where books are exchanged on Christmas Eve. Each child received a wrapped, personally selected book, with a message written from their Core team.

“Christmas can be a tricky time and some of our children didn’t have visits or gifts, except what they received from us. Books are also a great way for us to build relationships and show we understand something about them.” Head of English & Literacy at the Secure Accommodation