Quiz Winners!

Why Germs Don't Make You Ill and Drugs Can't Cure You

The authors of this book will be in the Oxfam Hertford Bookshop from 11:00 am on Saturday July 3rd.

Oxfam Bookfest July 3rd to July 17th

Do you think you know Hertford well?

Yes? Then why not enter our Picture Quiz for the chance to win a prize. Entry forms cost just £1.00 each and are available from the Oxfam Hertford Bookshop in Maidenhead Street.

For those of you of a more literary persausion, there is also a literary competition for adults with entry forms also priced at just £1.00

We haven't forgotten our younger customers either with a wordsearch quiz for entrants under 12 years of age!

Bookfest 2010

July 2009 saw the first ever Oxfam Bookfest – a fortnight packed with book events in Oxfam shops all over the country. It was so successful — with over 350 events, a 40% rise in book donations and hundreds of thousands of pounds of poverty-busting sales — that we are doing it again in 2010. We're adding even more events, and selling even more books to make even more money to fund our work.

This year the book-based fun will go far and wide, with activities, events and displays across hundreds of Oxfam shops, libraries, community centres and other venues around the country. From Inverness to Plymouth, Camarthen to Cambridge, Oxfam shops will host a myriad of book events, competitions, auctions and local family fun, celebrating all that the charity does with books.

From the Hertfordshire Mercury

Charity shop cutting down on its waste

A HERTFORD charity store has started recycling most products that come to it.

Oxfam Hertford Bookshop in Maidenhead Street has its books, cardboard and plastic recycled by Choice, which sends some of the material to Africa and India.

Shop manager Pauline Wilby said: “We’re reducing waste costs by not having so many bins outside.

We did have five bins emptied three times a week. Now it’s one bin emptied once a week.”

The store receives 80p for every bag of recyclables and saves £150 a week.