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Christian Aid Week: 15 -21 May 2022

7/3/2022

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The Christian Aid Week activity that MUC hosts is the annual Booksale. 

Before Covid, we were able to raise sums in the order of £15k, and  obviously, Covid has prevented us from being able to run any kind of sale  over the last two years. However, now there is a plan to run the Booksale in 2022. The sale is organised by a committee that spreads wider than MUC, who have spent time thinking and discussing what might be possible.
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Our intention is to hold a sale in the Main Hall on Saturday 14 May  throughout the day and then in the afternoon of Sunday 15 May. We will  have best-selling topics from our previous sales – Scottish books,  collectibles, paperback fiction and possibly one or two others. 

If you have only been at the booksale as a browser or buyer, you may not  be aware of all the activity that goes on behind the scenes collecting, sorting, moving books and setting up the Sanctuary. There are a lot of  books that were collected for the 2020 sale and for this year’s sale no new books are to be taken in. Disposing of what doesn’t sell has become a more significant issue. Unfortunately, the social enterprise, BookDonors, which we worked with before no longer exists. 

At the last booksale in 2019 there were about 50 volunteers from local  churches - Christ Church, Greenbank, St Peters, Marchmont St Giles, Reid Memorial and St John's and many with no direct connection with a church.  Obviously with Covid not all of these feel able to return to help. 
The aim is of course to raise as much money as possible for Christian Aid.  And to this end we really need help in moving the large volumes of books  up and down from the basement. If you can help to move books before  and after the sale, it really would be appreciated. There are other less strenuous tasks as well, but that is the main need. 
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More information is available from David and Lesley Donald if you are  interested in helping (churchoffice.muc@gmail.com). You can also use the  contact form on the Booksale website.  (https://holycornerbooksale.wordpress.com/)

Other Christian Aid week activities may be planned later along with Marchmont St Giles and St Catherine’s Argyle in our cluster grouping.
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